July 29th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
Recently I was in Cambodia with a group of Googlers for “Gcamp” at the Royal University of Phnom Penh when the country’s first H1N1 (swine flu) case was discovered – a 16-year old American girl on an exchange student visit. The pandemic had traveled th…
July 22nd, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Google.org is pleased to announce that The Final Inch, a film produced with support from and in collaboration with Google.org, is now available on DVD. The Final Inch received a 2008 Oscar nomination in the category of Best Documentary (Short Film).To…
June 30th, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Earlier today we announced on the Google Germany Blog that Yello Strom is our first Google PowerMeter partner in Europe. With over 1.4 million customers, Yello is among Germany’s ten largest electricity companies and the very first company to offer co…
June 29th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
(Cross-posted from Official Google Africa Blog)Today is a big day for the Google Africa team for several reasons. We’re announcing an exciting partnership between MTN Uganda, the Grameen Foundation and Google, along with the launch of Google SMS in Uga…
June 5th, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Today is World Environment Day and I wanted to point your attention to a major initiative that just launched and is supported by Google: The Prince of Wales’ Prince’s Rainforest Project, dedicated to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Check out this vid…
June 3rd, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
As the flu season begins in the southern hemisphere, we’re excited to announce the expansion of Google Flu Trends to Australia and New Zealand.By using aggregated search data, we’ve been able to produce estimates of flu activity for these countries in …
May 6th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed by President Obama in February, includes tens of billions of dollars in federal stimulus funding for clean energy. This investment gives our country an unprecedented opportunity to rebuild our energy s…
April 29th, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)In November 2008 we launched Google Flu Trends after finding a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Google Flu Trends may be a…
April 14th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
It’s with a grateful heart that I leave full-time work with Google to begin a new chapter in my life. I served as start up Executive Director for Google.org for nearly three years before moving into the role of Chief Philanthropic Evangelist in Februar…
April 7th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
Today the YouTube homepage is featuring an Oscar®-nominated film set in the slums of India. No, not that one — this film tells a true story. In honor of World Health Day, YouTube is highlighting The Final Inch, an inspiring short documentary create…
March 27th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
In 2006, Dr. Larry Brilliant – Google.org’s Chief Philanthropic Evangelist – won the prestigious TED Prize. He delivered a powerful talk that highlighted the risk of a devastating future pandemic, and described one of his big ideas for combating the t…
March 16th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
An interesting article making a case for the use of online information for earlier detection of disease outbreaks came out last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The article, co-authored by HealthMap co-founder and Google.org grantee Jo…
March 10th, 2009 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Solar energy has long been touted as a clean alternative to traditional electricity generation, but building a clean energy economy will also create jobs. Thanks to federal and state policies to support renewable energy, it’s estimated that the solar i…
February 23rd, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
When Larry and Sergey laid out their vision for Google.org, they hoped that this “experiment in active philanthropy” would one day have an even greater impact on the world than Google itself. They committed resources from Google’s profits, equity and s…
February 19th, 2009 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Just one week after launching Google’s energy information campaign, we kicked off our first joint smart grid event with GE, a larger clean energy collaboration we announced last fall. Our timing was fortuitous; the event took place just as President O…
