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#uinnovate UNICEF Uganda Innovation Labs Tour: Day 1

March 4, 2013by UNICEF Stories 4 Comments

Today was awesome.  We started off our #uinnovate tour of UNICEF’s Innovation Lab in Uganda with a briefing by Sharad Sapra on the state of the Uganda country office, problems […]

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Academia, Innovation Labs
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How Do You Scale Social Innovation Startups?

February 16, 2013by UNICEF Stories Leave a comment

UNICEF Tech Innovation co-lead Erica Kochi writes a guest post for TechCrunch on how to scale your social innovation startup. You’re a social entrepreneur wanting to change the world, but are having a […]

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Academia, Innovation Labs, Media Coverage, Partnerships, Private Sector Collaboration, Technology
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A request for Design for UNICEF support

October 29, 2012by UNICEF Stories Leave a comment

Hello!  My name is Dylan Fox, and I represent Berkeley Innovation, a human factors design group at UC Berkeley in California. This semester, we’re trying to help at Open Mind by designing a new variant […]

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Academia, Innovation Labs, Partnerships
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Learning From Our Students

October 5, 2012by UNICEF Stories 5 Comments

Global, hybrid collaborations and what they mean for UNICEF I have spoken a great deal recently about how UNICEF’s global network of operations, partners and work is a powerful counter-weight to […]

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Academia, Innovation Labs, Partnerships, Rural Information Access
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My DesignMatters Fellowship

September 27, 2012by UNICEF Stories Leave a comment

UNICEF might seem like an odd place for a graduate design student to spend a term, but Art Center’s Media Design and Design Matters departments have had a number of […]

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Academia, Partnerships
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Design for UNICEF at The Indian Institute of Technology

August 28, 2012by UNICEF Stories 1 Comment

“This has really opened our minds.  We always thought we were going to design luxurious things.  These lectures have made us think that we can actually use our skills for […]

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Academia, Partnerships
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RIT’s partnership with the Kosovo Innovation Lab

May 18, 2012by UNICEF Stories Leave a comment

Luis Rosario and Duy Nguyen are helping to rebuild a nation. The RIT students are doing so as part of a UNICEF co-op experience at the Kosovo Innovations Lab in the capital […]

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Academia, Innovation Labs, Partnerships

Dustin York Summer Fellowship video documentation.

October 4, 2010by UNICEF Stories Leave a comment

Dustin York worked with UNICEF’s Innovation Team as this past summer’s DesignMatters Fellow from the Art Center College of Design (Graduate Media Design). He reflected on his major projects and […]

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Academia, Child Friendly Technology, Partnerships

UNICEF and Academia video

August 18, 2010by UNICEF Stories 2 Comments

UNICEF has benefitted from numerous and varied academic collaborations, from classes designing prototypes to research groups exploring practices in the field, all with the intention of spurring innovation for development. […]

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Academia, Partnerships
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Jorge Just’s thesis paper Visual Summary

August 11, 2010by UNICEF Stories Leave a comment

Jorge Just’s thesis project, undertaken as part of his study for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), was also developed with the support of UNICEF. The project is called RapidFTR, and […]

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Academia, Mobile Registration of Children, Partnerships, Technology

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