so it’s not just the business…lines from google:
“We hope that someday this institution will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world’s problems.“
– Sergey Brin & Larry Page
What are they upto:
google.org includes the work of the Google Foundation, some of Google’s own projects using Google talent, technology and other resources, as well as partnerships and contributions to for-profit and non-profit entities. While we continue to define the goals, priorities and approach for Google.org, we will focus on several areas including global poverty, energy and the environment.
more on google.org…
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I guess subtitling movies to make people read and get practice is an amazing idea. This idea reminds of the mid-day mean scheme. These are the ideas that actually work at the grassroots level.
If they use the learning in their for-profit ventures then that’s perfect. That’s for me Economics working in favour of Social development. 🙂
Its very much about business or so i would like to believe.
The rate at which Google hate club is growing, they have no option but to start early on opening up a not-for-profit (sick!) front and wear a good face.
“PlanetRead: an organization seeking to improve literacy in India using same-language subtitling. By adding subtitles to Bollywood films and videos of popular folk songs, PlanetRead gives people who have low literacy skills regular reading practice. As it expands, this approach has the potential to reach hundreds of millions of people.”
Now thats some philanthropy :)) Lets see if Google does not use the insights gathered from this project for furthering development of their similar ‘for-profit’ product lines.