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Social Innovators from 22 Country Offices gather in Kosovo to create UPSHIFT 2.0

Social Innovators from 22 Country Offices gather in Kosovo to create UPSHIFT 2.0

Partners - Int’l Agencies & Orgs Partners government Youth engagement

By Angelica Ong

Prishtina, Kosovo — UNICEF Kosovo and UNICEF’s Global Innovation Centre, brought together stakeholders from more than 22 countries including Vietnam, Guatemala, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Georgia and Indonesia to support the development and enhancement of UPSHIFT. This 3-day workshop was an opportunity to bring together… Read more →←
Malawi: Low-cost drone built by students delivers medicine over 19 km distance

Malawi: Low-cost drone built by students delivers medicine over 19 km distance

Partners - Academia Partners government

By Angelica Ong

Written by: Michael Scheibenreif, PhD An aviation milestone was achieved last week in Malawi, as a team from Virginia Tech supervised a fully autonomous, 19 km simulated drug delivery flight in a drone designed at Virginia Tech and built by Malawian students. The aircraft, called EcoSoar, was designed at the Unmanned Systems Lab to be… Read more →←
Exploring the future of 21st century skills

Exploring the future of 21st century skills

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By UNICEF Innovation

Reflections on the Global Innovation Center AC5 By Jennie Bernstein, Urban Innovation Specialist From June 27-29,  the Global Innovation Center (GIC) hosted its fifth Advisory Committee Meeting (GIC AC5) with UNICEF’s Vietnam Country Office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. So much happened over the course of the week, and so much was… Read more →←
Malawi’s Unique Drone Corridor

Malawi’s Unique Drone Corridor

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By UNICEF Innovation

By Chris Fabian  The year is 2022. We are standing a few kilometers away from the Kasungu Drone-port in Malawi, watching a group of children playing football during a break in the school day. A shadow passes over us, we look up and see what looks like a small airplane flying low overhead, circling once or twice around a nearby health… Read more →←
New innovations protecting lives in flood-prone Cambodia

New innovations protecting lives in flood-prone Cambodia

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By UNICEF Innovation

By James Happell, Technology for Development Manager – People in Need, Cambodia   Seasonal flooding is a perpetual challenge for the people of Cambodia, a country consistently ranked as one of the most vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters. Floods in 2013 covered almost half the country and affected nearly 1.7 million… Read more →←
Mobile phones help enhance decision-making, improving medical care for children in Burkina Faso

Mobile phones help enhance decision-making, improving medical care for children in Burkina Faso

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By UNICEF Innovation

By Sansan HIEN, C4D Officer and Innovation Focal Point, UNICEF Burkina Faso In some regions of Burkina Faso, community health workers (CHWS) are now using SMS reporting system to improve the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) as well as the availability of health, and nutrition supplies at a community level. This… Read more →←
The Government of Malawi and UNICEF announce first humanitarian drone testing corridor in Africa

The Government of Malawi and UNICEF announce first humanitarian drone testing corridor in Africa

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By UNICEF Innovation

LILONGWE, Malawi/NEW YORK, 15 December 2016 – The Government of Malawi and UNICEF have announced the establishment of an air corridor to test potential humanitarian use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – also known as drones. The corridor is the first in Africa and one of the first globally with a focus on humanitarian and… Read more →←
Advancing The Birth Registration System in Tanzania: Providing Under-Five Children their right to protection

Advancing The Birth Registration System in Tanzania: Providing Under-Five Children their right to protection

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By UNICEF Innovation

Decentralised birth registration system helps to register more than 220,000 Tanzanian children under the age of five in four weeks. Think of a time when you were asked to present your birth certificate. You can likely easily think of several moments where proving your identity was required – applying to school, getting a driver’s… Read more →←
The 4th Global Innovation Center Advisory Committee Meeting: Shaping More Effective Services and Solutions on the Ground

The 4th Global Innovation Center Advisory Committee Meeting: Shaping More Effective Services and Solutions on the Ground

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By UNICEF Innovation

November 16 and 17, 2016, marked the fourth meeting of the Global Innovation Center Advisory Committee (GIC AC). The meeting was well attended with representation from frog, the Republic of Korea, Overlap Associates, Point B, UNICEF Canada, UNICEF UK, US Fund for UNICEF, and the University of Cape Town. The meeting was held in Amman,… Read more →←
uSurvey: An open source mobile tool that blends IT and programme skills to improve UNICEF’s work for children

uSurvey: An open source mobile tool that blends IT and programme skills to improve UNICEF’s work for children

Coverage Partners government Real time information

By UNICEF Innovation

by BP Panwar, and Sarah Kabaija – Information and Communication Technologies and Development – ICTD Advancements in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are creating new opportunities to impact children’s lives, and UNICEF is at the forefront of deploying innovative and technology-enabled solutions to reduce the… Read more →←
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