Again, here I am marveling at the innovation of these various projects and the many lofty goals they hope to achieve.

The one thing that comes to mind is that the attendees are slowly becoming bogged down with so much data, that the projects with the streamlined messaging will be the ones to win the big prize money.

We will find out the voting results this afternoon. But first, three more projects launch into discussions about their impact, goals, and why they're worthy of the prize money.

Your Mapper

Your Mapper allows anyone to map anything. That's the project in a nutshell.

The project started as a desire to create a crime map of Louisville, Kentucky. Actually getting that data released from the police department was another story entirely. After months of trying to convince the police to release crime data, a lawsuit, and the help of an attorney general, the site's founder received the data.

The site currently offers that elusive crime data, in addition to restaurant health data.

The idea is to disseminate this data nationally and locally using an internal set of tools. Adding a feedback system, users could leave comments, flag information, and rate every map and data point. If someone were loading a restaurant health review, another user could leave a comment about their own experience.

Rosetta Project

A global archive of the world's language with a focus on endangered languages, Rosetta founders says it's the largest collection of language information publicly available on the Internet.

There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world today -- 90% could disappear in next century. This could potentially lead to a loss of scientific information...syntax, meaning, concept of time, ways to talk about how you know things, metaphors, what is passed down through the generations, where you got knowledge -- all of that data will be lost as these languages are lost.

Using Google Earth to share language maps, the Rosetta Project folks want to allow all language speakers to manipulate discreet geographic data and adjust where their language is spoken. This provides a unique picture of languages spread around the world.

Why is this relevant? Language revitalization provides a reason to speak language. Some languages have low prestige in a community. This tool helps people see the value of their language and a reason to teach children their native tongue.

The project aims to build a comprehensive Google Earth layer with data for each language spoken with a cloud, rather than a point.

Social Actions Index

This project has the lofty goal of aggregating 29 (eventually all) actionable, peer-to-peer social change campaigns on the web by bringing together sites that allow donations, offline meetups, campaigns, advocating, or self organizing. (Kiva, PledgeBank, GlobalGiving, change.org, and SixDegrees.org are some examples.)

Currently, there are a lot of siloes in this space, but by creating a searchable interface it brings together actionable opportunities. It's built now, so check it out.

Using the site, the media/blogs can put actions in front of you or disseminate information to the general public about ways to get involved with a campaign or meet up with like-minded individuals. (And, eventually delivering that info to mobile phones.)

The project founders believe this will create a cascade of impact: more self organizing, peer-to-peer campaigns will be successful, then a resource pool begins to emerge that mirrors the cloud.

The end result, they say, is that individuals become partners in participating in online social interactions and share knowledge. Eventually companies and organizations will want to leverage the citizen space.

Eventually, the project will be self sustained, via sponsorships, modest membership fees, consulting (go-to place for nonprofits/foundations).