(Cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog)
One of the benefits employed at Google is the knowledge to pay 20% of your instance on projects you are passionate about. Recently I was lucky sufficiency to listen the inhabitant Conservation Foundation's Climate Project Summit, where I met Al Gore, and was trained as a Climate Project Presenter. This led me to devote my 20% instance to develop Show Your Vote. Built as an open-source platform, Show Your Vote enables grouping around the concern to verify the world's leaders to accolade a clean and effective care for status change.
Some major environmental campaigns (including Earth Hour) as well as UNFCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, are now using Show Your Vote to hold alter open hold of incoming week's COP 15, the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen.
No concern where you are in the world, see every the structure in which you crapper engage in the COP15 on this Virtual participation in COP15 page.
One of the bounteous challenges in activity grouping on the supply of status modify is that there are a myriad of campaigns - bounteous ones, small and topical ones - taking place every over the world. I really wanted to wage a azygos papers that every campaigns and websites crapper ingest to together exhibit the vote. So I matured a "web element" similar in function to Google Web Elements, which anyone crapper insert into a place so that grouping crapper balloting and see the collective vote. They crapper also get educational tools on their possess website by simply filling discover the house form, and copying and pasting a azygos line of HTML code.
Google App Engine provides the hosting resolution that makes this every possible. And I'd same to impart man Googlers Pamela Fox, Bob Aman, Rupert Breheny and patriarch Kott for volunteering their instance to make Show Your Vote possible.
Show Your Vote has threesome tabs: Vote, Explore, and Learn. The Vote journalism allows individuals and organizations to exhibit their vote.
The Explore journalism displays individualist votes mass by post code, and organizations by their possess bespoken icons. The voting transpose is supercharged by the Google Maps API. Additionally, ethnic networking tools supercharged by Google Friend Connect hold grouping within the global accord to share their messages of support. Individual votes are mass into postal codes, and organizations crapper upload their possess picture to the map.
Finally, the Learn journalism contains flush educational pieces, narrated by some of the crowning names in science, NGOs and the political world. These tours were created by the Google Earth Outreach team using Google Earth's new touring capabilities.
In the countdown to COP15, I'm hoping that we crapper collect sufficiency of a global open exhibit of hold to amplify the requirement to modify status change, drive collective action, and reinforce the requirement for our concern leaders to behave now. Please join me in serving to exhibit the vote!
Posted by Justin Baird, Innovationist, Google Australia
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