Arin, I just have to say…
This contribution of yours just made my day. It’s quite inspiring, and lovely to see so daring ideas, if only you were the Government 
The part about offering your skills to a project of your choice, that Nadia mentioned, is probably Edgeryders Social Capital for Social Ventures #SC4SV, submitted to the EU Social Innovation Competition. If this gets through (I think even if it doesn’t, we’ll work it out someway) we’ll be prototyping an ecosystem that at least in theory has all chances to succeed… Where I see the risk is getting people enthusiast and committed to work on projects not their own without getting paid for and with meaningful rewards that nevertheless don’t help them make it through the day. A lot of talented people are not really entrepreneurial, so the question is what would be a good reputation and recognition system that makes them want to be part of this repository of great projects and skills. Vinay and Nadia here may have some thoughts on this, but this is something that I wouldn’t know how to manage…