Users' votes will be used to guide Google's advisory board, which will choose up to five projects to receive funding. Google will then launch an RFP (Request for Proposal) process to find organizations to implement those ideas.

Here's some background info on the project:

So far, the ideas involve community, environmental, economic, and energy-related solutions and include the following:

• Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists
• Build better banking tools for everyone
• Work toward socially conscious tax policies
• Collect and organize the world's urban data
• Create more efficient landmine removal programs
• Drive innovation in public transport
• Build real-time, user-reported news service
• Make educational content available online for free
• Create real-time natural crisis tracking system
• Make government more transparent
• Help social entrepreneurs drive change
• Provide quality education to African students
• Create genocide monitoring and alert system
• Enhance science and engineering education
• Promote health monitoring and data analysis
• Create real-world issue reporting system

Interestingly, some of these ideas sound a lot like the driving concepts behind existing organizations and startups we know. For example, the final idea is so akin to current tech media darling CitySourced that we have to wonder about possible duplication of effort.

What do our readers think? Which idea will get your vote, and why? Let us know in the comments!