(Cross-posted from the Google state Blog)
One of the benefits employed at Google is the knowledge to pay 20% of your time on projects you are passionate about. Recently I was lucky sufficiency to listen the Australian 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% time to develop Show Your Vote. Built as an open-source platform, Show Your Vote enables grouping around the concern to verify the world's body to accolade a fair and effective care for status change.
Some major environmental campaigns (including Earth Hour) as substantially as UNFCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, are now using Show Your Vote to hold visualize open hold of incoming week's COP 15, the Climate Change Conference attractive locate in Copenhagen.
No concern where you are in the world, wager every the ways 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, diminutive and topical ones - attractive locate every over the world. I rattling wanted to wage a single papers that every campaigns and websites crapper ingest to collectively exhibit the vote. So I matured a "web element" kindred in duty to Google Web Elements, which anyone crapper insert into a place so that grouping crapper balloting and wager the agglomerated vote. They crapper also intend educational tools on their possess website by simply stuff discover the house form, and copying and pasting a single 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, prince Breheny and Benjamin Kott for volunteering their time to attain Show Your Vote possible.
Show Your Vote has three tabs: Vote, Explore, and Learn. The Vote journalism allows individuals and organizations to exhibit their vote.
The Explore journalism displays individualist votes mass by place 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 community to deal 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 rich educational pieces, narrated by some of the crowning names in science, NGOs and the semipolitical world. These tours were created by the Google Earth Outreach aggroup 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 agglomerated action, and fortify the requirement for our concern body to behave now. Please join me in helping to exhibit the vote!
Posted by Justin Baird, Innovationist, Google Australia
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