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October 2017 Recap: Must-Read Stories
Hi there UNICEFStories Readers. In case you missed our latest blogs, here’s a recap of some of the top stories published on UNICEF Innovation’s blog during October. Click away. Project Connect, in...
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UNICEF Innovation Fund: Beijing Daokoudai – AAC Portfolio
On 08 Dec 2017, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announces 6 new investments in open source technology solutions – Beijing Daokoudai is among one of six new portfolio companies to receive investment. The...
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UNICEF INNOVATION FUND: CIREHA – AAC Portfolio
On 08 Dec 2017, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announces 6 new investments in open source technology solutions – CIREHA is among one of six new portfolio companies to receive investment. The UNICEF...
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UNICEF INNOVATION FUND: Ninaad Digital Technology – AAC Portfolio
On 08 Dec 2017, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announces 6 new investments in open source technology solutions – Ninaad Digital Technology is among one of six new portfolio companies to receive investment....
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Announcing UNICEF’s Accessibility Portfolio: Spotlight on AAC
Today we’re proud to announce that after a highly competitive process, CIREHA (Argentina), Daokudai (China) and Ninaad Digital Technology (India) have been selected to join the UNICEF Innovation Fund’s...
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UNICEF INNOVATION FUND: Autonomous Systems Research
On 08 Dec 2017, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announces 6 new investments in open source technology solutions – Autonomous Systems Research is among one of six new portfolio companies to receive...
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UNICEF INNOVATION FUND: RedCrow
On 08 Dec 2017, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announces 6 new investments in open source technology solutions – RedCrow is among one of six new portfolio companies to receive investment. The UNICEF...
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UNICEF Innovation Fund: IDEASIS
On 08 Dec 2017, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announces 6 new investments in open source technology solutions – IDEASIS is among one of six new portfolio companies to receive investment. The UNICEF...
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UNICEF announces addition of six start-up companies to 2018 investment portfolio
NEW YORK 8 December 2017 – Six start-up businesses providing solutions to improve children’s lives using frontier technologies such as data science, virtual reality (VR), drones and artificial...
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Teaching an AI About Empathy — and Learning About Ourselves
By: Manuel García-Herranz At UNICEF Innovation, we’re supporting our partners to help build models that give us a better understanding of empathy. We hear in the news about how Artificial Intelligence...
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UNICEF Innovate: 2018 Davos Roundup
23-26 January , 2018 – UNICEF Innovation Futures Lead & WEF Global Future Council on Human Rights chair – Erica Kochi joins world leaders, industry experts, and changemakers at Davos 2018’s...
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World Economic Forum Unveils New Principles to Make Machine Learning More Human
This press release was published at the World Economic Forum on March 13, 2018, by Oliver Cann, Public Engagement, Tel.: +41 79 799 3405; oca@weforum.org. Geneva, 13 March 2018 – Strong standards are...
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UNICEF Innovation Fund: Investing in Games-Based Learning Solutions
By Ariam Mogos @aamogos– Learning Lead, UNICEF Ventures Games have demonstrated that they can be a powerful vehicle for learning, which is why the UNICEF Innovation Fund is exploring partnerships to...
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Innovation at UNICEF: Do it for the kids
Written By Catherine Cheney. The original story was published in Devex on 30 March 2018. Access original article here. Cynthia McCaffrey, director of the Office of Global Innovation at the United...
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Iranian experts from public and private sectors come together to form the...
On Monday 25th June 2018, a very diverse range of enthusiastic individuals came together in Tehran to exchange ideas on finding innovative solutions for problems facing children and adolescents in...
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Experimentation and Behaviour Change for the SDGs: Bringing Behavioural...
September 28, 2018 — Statement by Cynthia McCaffrey, Director, of UNICEF Office of Innovation at a recent UNGA Side-Event (hosted by UNDP & UNICEF) – Experimentation & Behaviour Change for the...
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Building an innovation ecosystem that will unlock gender equality outcomes at...
From 29 October-1 November 2018, the International Development Innovation Alliance convened their bi-annual meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation. Topics of focus for collaboration and partnership for...
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Blunders, bloopers and foul-ups: the other WASH taboo
Increasing willingness to talk about failures in WASH on World Toilet Day. Written by: Esther Shaylor On the final day of the RRM, UNICEF partner Niles Hope, distributes Water and Sanitation Hygiene...
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RapidPro Embraced by SDG Action Campaign & UN Development Community
The UN Development Operations Coordination Office (UNDOCO) will incorporate a real-time monitoring module using the open source platform, RapidPro, into UN INFO and make it available to all UN country...
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Making digital learning accessible for all children in Kenya
By: Daniel Baheta, Chief Education; Florian Rabenstein, Education Officer, UNICEF Kenya Kenya pilots the first prototype of an accessible digital textbook that follows Universal Design for learning “I...
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