Larry Brilliant writes in Slate about Google’s work to come to terms with the direction of its philanthropic giving. Google.org, the relatively new face of this effort, will be funded with 1 percent of Google’s equity and profits in some form, as well as employee time — thus its ‘hybrid’ nature. Brilliant says Google asked three broad questions: 1) Where can Google work to help the poorest and weakest of the world? 2) Is it a big enough idea? and 3) Did Google have particular expertise for each potential project? Five initiatives were decided upon all with strong health implications.
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.
