Google on climate change, poverty and emerging threats

Check out the article, there is a portion there that can give us a potential opportunity with Google.org and their partner companies.

One of the things they will invest on will be putting money for South East Asia read the article

Google.org hopes that the grants will assist communities in predicting and preventing "events before they become local, regional, or global crises" and "by identifying hot spots and enabling a rapid response." The donation is "initially focused on Southeast Asia and tropical Africa"

See the rest of the article at

Google.org Focuses On Climate Change, Poverty And Emerging Threats http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/17/google_org_focuses_on_climate_change_poverty_and_emerging_threats/index.html

or check out the official blog of Google.org at http://blog.google.org/

Some ideas:

1. Discuss how the coral triangle can be used to help climate change. To make it manageable, we can get the 'cement block corals' of Oye Peralta as one of the possible ideas to improve the coral reefs, I'm sure the marine biologists have better ideas.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/microsites/probe/sagip_dagat.htm

2. On poverty we can channel the efforts of Father Beltran to be able to multiply it and create a domino effect here as well

http://www2.dwci.edu/vocations/missart/smokeymountain.html

3. Also teaching computers to kids and highschool students via Misha Pallorina's efforts at Payatas Dump Site.

http://picasaweb.google.com/mpallorina (sorry, cant find anything online regarding your payatas kids)

4. Disease Surveillance techniques at Escalante, Negros, Negros Occidental Phils. Led by Dr. Vaflor (as far as I remember)

http://www.escalantecity.gov.ph/thecity.html


Add up to the list if you have other unique ideas.

Saw the websites of the partners that got the grant from Google.
1. http://instedd.org/
2. http://www.ghsi.org/
3. http://www.clarklabs.org/
4. http://www.healthmap.org/en


Time to prepare the business plans.