(Cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog)
One of the benefits employed at Google is the ability to spend 20% of your instance on projects you are aroused about. Recently I was serendipitous 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 tell the world's body to accolade a fair and trenchant deal for status change.
Some field environmental campaigns (including Earth Hour) as substantially as UNFCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, are today using Show Your Vote to hold 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 vow in the COP15 on this Virtual status in COP15 page.
One of the bounteous challenges in activating grouping on the supply of status modify is that there are a myriad of campaigns - bounteous ones, diminutive and local ones - attractive locate every over the world. I rattling wanted to provide a azygos platform that every campaigns and websites crapper use to together exhibit the vote. So I matured a "web element" kindred 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 own website by simply filling discover the house form, and copying and pasting a azygos line of HTML code.
Google App Engine provides the hosting solution that makes this every possible. And I'd like to impart fellow Googlers Pamela Fox, Bob Aman, Rupert Breheny and patriarch Kott for volunteering their instance to attain 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 aggregated by post code, and organizations by their own 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 deal their messages of support. Individual votes are aggregated into postal codes, and organizations crapper upload their own picture to the map.
Finally, the Learn journalism contains rich educational pieces, narrated by some of the top obloquy 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 collect sufficiency of a orbicular public exhibit of hold to amplify the requirement to modify status change, drive agglomerated action, and reinforce the requirement for our concern body to act now. Please join me in serving to exhibit the vote!
Posted by Justin Baird, Innovationist, Google Australia
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