(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 drilled as a Climate Project Presenter. This led me to devote my 20% instance to amend Show Your Vote. Built as an open-source platform, Show Your Vote enables grouping around the concern to verify the world's leaders to seal a clean and effective deal for status change.
Some field environmental campaigns (including Earth Hour) as well as UNFCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, are today using Show Your Vote to hold alter open hold of incoming week's COP 15, the Climate Change Conference taking locate in Copenhagen.
No concern where you are in the world, wager every the ways in which you crapper vow in the COP15 on this Virtual status in COP15 page.
One of the bounteous challenges in activating grouping on the issue of status modify is that there are a myriad of campaigns - bounteous ones, diminutive and topical ones - taking locate every over the world. I rattling desired to provide a azygos papers that every campaigns and websites crapper use to together exhibit the vote. So I developed a "web element" kindred in duty to Google Web Elements, which anyone crapper insert into a site so that grouping crapper balloting and wager the collective vote. They crapper also get educational tools on their possess website by simply stuff out 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 like to impart man Googlers Pamela Fox, Bob Aman, prince Breheny and Benjamin Kott for volunteering their instance to attain Show Your Vote possible.
Show Your Vote has threesome tabs: Vote, Explore, and Learn. The Vote tab allows individuals and organizations to exhibit their vote.
The Explore tab 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, social networking tools supercharged by Google Friend Connect hold grouping within the orbicular community to share their messages of support. Individual votes are mass into postal codes, and organizations crapper upload their possess icon to the map.
Finally, the Learn tab contains rich 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 aggroup using Google Earth's newborn touring capabilities.
In the countdown to COP15, I'm hoping that we crapper amass sufficiency of a orbicular open exhibit of hold to amplify the need to modify status change, drive collective action, and reinforce the need 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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