(Cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog)
One of the benefits employed at Google is the ability to pay 20% of your instance on projects you are aroused about. Recently I was lucky enough to attend 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% 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 body to accolade a fair and trenchant deal for climate change.
Some major environmental campaigns (including Earth Hour) as well as UNFCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, are today using Show Your Vote to support alter public hold of incoming week's COP 15, the Climate Change Conference attractive locate in Copenhagen.
No matter where you are in the world, wager every the structure in which you crapper engage in the COP15 on this Virtual participation in COP15 page.
One of the bounteous challenges in activating grouping on the supply of climate modify is that there are a myriad of campaigns - bounteous ones, diminutive and local ones - attractive locate every over the world. I really desired to wage a single papers that every campaigns and websites crapper use to collectively exhibit the vote. So I developed a "web element" similar in duty to Google Web Elements, which anyone crapper append into a site so that grouping crapper balloting and wager the agglomerated vote. They crapper also intend educational tools on their possess website by simply filling out the house form, and copying and pasting a single distinction of HTML code.
Google App Engine provides the hosting solution that makes this every possible. And I'd like to thank fellow Googlers Pamela Fox, Bob Aman, Rupert Breheny and patriarch Kott for volunteering their instance to make 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 post code, and organizations by their possess custom icons. The voting transpose is supercharged by the Google Maps API. Additionally, social networking tools supercharged by Google Friend Connect support grouping within the orbicular accord 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 whatever 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 amass enough of a orbicular public exhibit of hold to enlarge the requirement to modify climate change, drive agglomerated action, and fortify the requirement for our concern body to act now. Please tie me in helping to exhibit the vote!
Posted by Justin Baird, Innovationist, Google Australia
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