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RapidPro: Answering your questions
Stemming from the core of our principles for innovation and technology in development, our vision at UNICEF Innovation has been to have a common platform powered by a free & open source software...
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LAU students set new standards during Global Design for UNICEF Challenge
Originally published by LAU on September 24, 2014. View the original article. The members of ncubaby, one of the winning teams from the spring 2014 Design for UNICEF Challenge This summer, LAU...
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Design for UNICEF Global Challenge launches at American College in Nicaragua
Written and originally published by students in the Club de Negocios at American College. View the original story. American College y UNICEF, en conjunto con el apoyo de Club de Negocios AC, presento...
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UNICEF develops critical Ebola data flow
This article was originally published in The New Dawn on October 27, 2014 UNCEF Chris Fabian (l) and USAID’s Anthony Waddell (r) in talk with LTA commissioners A UNICEF initiative to establish real...
View ArticleHow Cell Phones Could Help Liberia Win the Fight Against Ebola
By Kayla Ruble; Originally published in Vice News November 12, 2014 | 6:20 am In a hotel room in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia, a group of technologists and Silicon Valley types have been posted...
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El ébola se combate casa por casa
Un equipo de voluntarias formadas por Unicef para asesorar sobre la enfermedad a través del móvil. / AHMED JALLANZO (UNICEF) By JOSÉ NARANJO; Originally published in El Pais November 11, 2014 La...
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Design for UNICEF Challenge: Fall 2014: Top 5 Teams Announced
Note: This story is part of a series of posts about the Innovation Unit’s most recent round of Design for UNICEF programs, which engage students from diverse backgrounds around priority issues in...
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A Whirlwind Visit Leads to Partnership and Research Grant
A meeting of the Nawe Nuze community group “I spent over 70-hours traveling for a two-day visit, and it was worth every minute,” I told my colleagues when I returned from Burundi. My February visit to...
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Talking RapidPro at New York University with World Food Programme
By Pilar Lagos “How many of you have cellphones?” asked RapidPro Global Product Manager, Kidus Asfaw, to a group of Master of Public Health students at New York University’s College of Global Public...
View ArticleChallenges For Emerging Markets’ MNOs
“Challenges for Emerging Markets’ MNOs” featured on Developing Telecoms: Connected Citizens, Managing Crisis, August 2015 issue. Written by Christopher Fabian. To download the complete issue, click...
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6 UNICEF Innovations: From strengthening health systems in real-time to...
By UNICEF Innovation #uinnovate For us, innovation at UNICEF means doing something different that adds value. This also means that we need to be agile so we can adapt to the evolving challenges...
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UNICEF is funding blockchain and health tech to solve the world’s biggest...
The original story was published in Wired on 15 November 2016. Written By Matt Burgess. View the original article here. Five startups will get a share of Unicef’s $9 million Innovation Fund The United...
View ArticleUNICEF Is Investing in Tech Start-Ups
The original story was published in The Associated Press on 15 November 2016, 4:21 PM. Written By Michael Astor. View the original article here. UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations children’s agency is...
View ArticleThe Fund’s 5 Start-ups Share –“Why Open Source?”
By Elizabeth Tanya Masiyiwa @eliz_tanya The UNICEF Innovation Fund invests exclusively in open source solutions. Our first class of tech start-ups have all chosen to follow this route and are placing...
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6 Superstar Mentors + Fund’s 5 Start-Ups Meet in Dubai to Discuss Pitfalls,...
The space where brilliant minds meet and great ideas emerge. UNICEF’s Innovation Fund recently announced investments in 5 open source tech start-ups, in its first set of external seed capital...
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Open source business models: Do investors see value in investing in open...
An Investor’s Perspective Interview with Joel Monegro, Analyst at Union Square Ventures. The UNICEF Innovation Fund invests exclusively in open source solutions, and we often get asked whether a...
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January 2017 Recap: Must-Read Stories
Hi there UNICEFStories Readers. Happy 2017. In case you missed our latest blogs, here’s a recap of some of the top stories published on UNICEF Innovation’s blog during January. Click away. Celebrating...
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New open source app helps protect children displaced by conflict
19 January 2017, Noor Ideen Zaben, has been working as a caseworker for the last four years with the International Medical Corps, one of UNICEF’s child protection partners in Za’atari Refugee Camp in...
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Establishing a Baseline of school safety practices using RapidPro real-time...
By Elliot McBride Innovation Specialist, UNICEF Pakistan A makeshift shelter has been assembled beside a utility pole in the city of Hyderabad, Sindh Province, Pakistan. © UNICEF/UNI116097/Page Floods,...
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Harnessing mobile technology to improve birth registration systems in Cambodia
The original story was published in UNICEF Connect East Asia & Pacific on 27 February 2017. Written by Simon Nazer. View the original article here. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) is being used in...
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