The original article was published on Feb 1, 2016 on UNICEF China’s blog. To read the complete article, click here. The Design for UNICEF class at Tsinghua University for the 2015/16 academic year successfully ended in January. The class is an interdisciplinary design programme in which graduate students from a variety […]
by Vania Santoso – UNICEF Indonesia Innovation Lab Youth Engagement Officer “I was very close to giving up. I’m so happy I didn’t.” This simple line recently brought me to tears. It was said by We Are Siblings member Cynthia Andriani as their pilot project ended in Bogor, Indonesia. She perfectly summed […]
What inspired you to enter the UNICEF Challenge? We never thought that we will run as far now and being the winner. The first time we knew about this competition, we think to challenge ourselves to do something different from our focus study now; food technology. And after we searched […]
1. What inspired you to enter this UNICEF Challenge? Our team got inspired by Nicaragua itself. We are a very beautiful, culturally rich country with magnificent spots all over the country. But sadly, few of us (Nicaraguans) know those spots, and that really becomes a problem when don’t know the […]
Last Thursday, students from the Parsons Design for UNICEF class presented their final project concepts at a Brown Bag at UNICEF NYHQ. The course, taught in fall 2014, was a collaboration with the Innovation Unit and Tanzania Country Office, and part of the graduate program in Design and Technology at Parsons. […]
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 UNICEF’s work. The Design for UNICEF Course is a semester-long university course open to students from a variety of disciplines. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, 21 January 2015 – A text message service for disaster evacuation. An app to encourage closer communities. A campaign which raises awareness of child violence. A gas detector that monitors poo. These are the four innovative ideas developed by Indonesian university students that just made the finals of […]
The Global Design for UNICEF Challenge launched at BongoHive in Zambia in October 2014, along with universities in five other countries around the world. The Challenge is an academic design competition coming out of the UNICEF Innovation Unit that engages students in local problem solving and global collaboration around pressing global […]
“I feel more human and alive when I write code that touches other people’s lives.” — Sri “Batman” Prasanna, long-time contributor to RapidFTR What does it take to build a force for change? A great idea, a clear vision, concrete plans, and the right set of resources are all key […]
“The force is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.” (Obi-Wan Kenobi) UNICEF Innovation is thrilled to be a part of Star Wars: Force for Change, a brand new Star Wars initiative from Disney and Lucasfilm in collaboration with Bad […]