Google offers $ 3 million to fight Human trafficking, the narcotics trade and weapons smuggling .

Following the last  Google Ideas summit on mapping, disrupting and exposing illicit networks, we have had an opportunity to learn that connecting anti-trafficking helplines in a global data sharing collaboration could help identify illicit patterns and provide victims anywhere in the world with more effective support. Therefore Polaris Project, Liberty Asia, and La Strada International are receiving a $3 million Global Impact Award from Google to do just that.

For those who unfamiliar, Global Impact Awards support nonprofits that use

technology to launch disruptive solutions in their sector. This program has been launched in December  2012 with the goal to find new ideas with a potential for huge scale.