October 04, 2008 1:22 PM

Google is announcing as part of its tenth birthday celebration Project 10^100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th), a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

For this contest, Google is soliciting exciting ideas for ways to improve people's lives and have committed $10 million to turn up to five of the best ideas into reality. According to Google "these ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple – but they need to have impact. We will identify the 100 best ideas and then ask our users to vote on which ideas we should fund. Their votes select the 20 finalists, and then a panel of judges will choose up to five ideas for final funding."

Google provided the following plan as an example: "communities tacking on Wi-Fi devices to public buses so they can detect and send stored emails and messages as the buses travel through unconnected areas."

Wouldn't it be great if a group of us could come together to collaborate on such a project? Or even better, develop a venture capital fund to foster and fund innovative change-making ideas.

Well, for more info about Google's contest visit: www.project10tothe100.com