Google's Global Impact Awards- Hunt for U.K.’s Social Entrepreneurs -$3 Million

Official Blog: Global Impact Awards’ hunt for U.K.’s most innovative social entrepreneurs starts today

LONDON: March-21-The three winners will be revealed at the event at Google London in June

Google is hunting for UK’s most innovative social entrepreneur. Right from cracking a human genome, advancing medical research via computer games to everything which will make the world a better place to live in.  Google’s first Global Impact Challenge (U.K), has invited British nonprofits to explain how they (non profits) have utilized technology in order to transform lives in some or the other way. Each out of the four nonprofits should get £500,000 Global Impact Award, as well as Chromebooks and technical assistance from Googlers to help actualize their projects respectively.

In 2012, Google launched the Global Impact Awards in order to aid nonprofits that use technology to tackle the planet’s toughest issues (social and commercial). Google gave away $23 million to seven organizations who worked on projects (aerial technology that protects wildlife to data algorithms that ensure more girls and minorities get placed in advanced math and science classes.)

Applications open today (March-22), and registered British nonprofits organizations are requested to apply online at g.co/impactchallenge.

10 finalists on May 22 will be announced. Followed by a voting, on June 3, the top 10 finalists will pitch their concepts. The judging panel comprises of Matt Brittin and Jacquelline Fuller, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Jilly Forster.

Technology can help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges and we’re eager to back innovators who are finding new ways to make an impact. Today we’re starting the hunt in the U.K., but we also know that nonprofits all over the world are using techy approaches to develop new solutions in their sector. Who knows, the Global Impact Challenge might head your way next.

Text source: http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2013/03/global-impact-awards-hunt-for-uks-most_24.html
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The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act

The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958 takes care of monuments of historical importance and going by this act/or law, an "ancient monument" means any structure, erection or monument, or any tumulus or place of interment, or any cave, rock-sculpture, inscription or monolith which is of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which has been in existence for not less than 100 years.

According to ASI here are the following criteria which define ancient monument and the veracity and importance of it. • Remains of an ancient monument • Site of an ancient monument • Such portion of land adjoining the site of an ancient monument as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving such monument. Last time I went to the Wikipedia meet at Hauz Khas, it emerged that Wikipedia is seriously doing something about historical monument. And yes they do it. My friend Ankit reminded me. There are over 3650 ancient monuments and remains of national importance, and supposedly protected by the ASI. Over 8,000 monuments are protected by the central government, including temples, mosques, tombs, churches, cemeteries, forts, palaces, step-wells, rock-cut caves, and secular architecture. S Suchindranath Aiyer a thinker from Bangalore feels the need to give importance to such moneuments across India and this memorial in particular, he said, "Its probably a good thing that its inside the golf course and the public don;t know about it. Else it might be banished to the grave yard of marble in North Delhi! "Soldier Sahibs" by Charles Allen gives a lot more on the Battle of Delhi and the men who forged the Empire." Why can not be this War Memorial elevated to a structure of national importance?