unicef innovation unit annual report july 2012-july 2013

UNICEF INNOVATION UNIT ANNUAL REPORT 07.2012-07.20131


V.11


UNICEF creates and guides approaches that are transformative, at scale, for the world’s most vulnerable children.

Innovation at UNICEF is collaboration that translates

ideas, technologies, and partnerships into products,

services, and processes to bring about better, more

equitable results for children.

INTRODUCTION


UNICEF Global Innovation

There are hundreds of innovative programmes and projects throughout UNICEF.

This document highlights work that has been supported by the New York Innovation Unit (OED), and where solutions have gone to scale.

Current initiatives

Upcoming initiatives

Innovation Labs

INTRODUCTION


Programmes

Using new technology, ideas,

and feedback loops to serve

the hardest-to-reach and most

vulnerable communities.

Products

Co-creating products and their

supporting systems, suited to

the needs of the most vulnerable

populations.

Processes

Improving UNICEF’s ability to target

resources and monitor and manage

results to increase efficiency in

difficult economic environments.

Partnerships

Building partnerships to bring

different sets of skills, viewpoints

and influence to bear on global

challenges.

At UNICEF, we focus on four key areas of Innovation.

INTRODUCTION


Models for Accelerating Innovation

Systems and Tools Research

Principles Initiatives Partners

Health

USER

HIV/AIDS

RapidSMS

Prototype National

Benificiary Frontline Provider

Multi-countryUN Staff Government and Policy Makers

Nutrition

RapidFTR

Sub-national

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Education and Learning Child Protection

Social Inclusion Emergency FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

STAGE IN PROCESS

Initiatives are further categorized by one or more of the following tags:

This document breaks down work into three major areas, with “initiatives” or “projects” being further broken down by type, and tags.

FOCUS AREA

INDEX

pp. 6-7

pp. 10-18

pp. 8-31

pp. 19-27

pp. 32-36

pp. 28-31


Five principles are fundamental to UNICEF’s Innovation work.

1. User-Centered, Equity Focused

2. Built on Experience

3. Open and Inclusive

4. Sustainable

5. Scalable

PRINCIPLES . INITIATIVES . PARTNERS


User-Centered, Equity-Focused

Respond to user needs, be context appropriate

and designed in collaboration with end users.

Be developed incrementally, using iterative

user testing system models and modified as

appropriate.

By designing for the most difficult-to-reach

first, we build equitable solutions that scale.

Sustainable

Be viable in the long term, factoring in support

infrastructure, maintenance and running costs.

Involve governments in the development of

solutions.

Encourage the involvement and training of

local experts (technical and otherwise).

Scalable

Be replicable and customizable in other

countries and contexts.

Factor in partnerships from the beginning and

start early negotiations.

Look towards locally available technologies

and use what already exists in the ecosystem.

Built On Experience

Be built upon previous experience and

incorporate best practices into the design of

products, services and processes.

Facilitate open access to information.

Documentation, content and learning can be

shared and accessed by anyone.

Open and Inclusive

Make knowledge around the innovation

publicly accessible and prioritize openness as

an approach to solving problems.

Build technology that is free and open source

so that it can be shared with interested parties

and adapted by others.

Principles



1. Models for Accelerating Innovation

2. Systems and Tools

3. Research


Initiatives address pressing challenges facing women and children.



1. Community Health Worker Backpack PLUS2. 1000 Days Project / Scaling-Up Nutrition Initiative 3. UNICEF Ventures: Scaling Social Innovations4. Innovation Fund5. Country Innovation Labs 6. Innovation in Learning7. Child-Friendly Technology Framework

Systems and Tools

1. Safe Pregnancy and Delivery, RapidSMS Rwanda 2. Patient Tracing and Results Delivery, Results160 3. Health Information and Reminders, RemindMi4. Nutrition Monitoring, Anthrowatch Tools 3. and 4. combine to form the Mwana Initiative5. Making People Count by Counting People, SMS Birth Reporting 6. Ensuring Supply of Essential Commodities, MTrac 7. Monitoring and Visualizing Status of Public Services, DevTrac 8. School Monitoring System, EduTrac 9. Connecting Young People to Government, uReport10. Applications for Family Tracing and Reunification, RapidFTR 11. Emergency Response Simulation Game 12. Design for UNICEF Curriculum 13. Rugged Technology Kit

Research

2013

1. How can mHealth innovations be used as health system strengthening tools? 2. How can UNICEF leverage real-time monitoring? 3. How do we engage with mid-career professionals in UNICEF Innovation work?

2012

4. How can we use mobile phones to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV?5. How can we undertake Open Research?

2011

6. What is the future of real-time information?7. How can mobile phones support Community Case Management? 8. How do Community Health Workers use mobile phones?

2010

9. How can UNICEF partner with mobile service providers?10. How can mobile financial services support development?11. What is the future of health technology?12. How do adolescent girls use technology in developing world?13. How do you build an education technology project?

2009

14. What are key trends in technology for children?

pp.10-18

pp. 19-27

pp. 28-31



Models for accelerating innovation include

guides, frameworks, funds, and partnerships to

create sustainable solutions that have impact at

scale.

Initiatives

PRINCIPLES . INITIATIVES . PARTNERS Models for Accelerating Innovation


Health, Nutrition

Community Health Worker (CHW) Backpack PLUSchwplus.tumblr.com

The Backpack PLUS Toolkit is a set of solutions aimed at empowering

and supporting CHWs, widely recognized as being a crucial resource for

achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to health. It

includes key drugs and supplies used by CHWs as well as plans for “soft”

elements, such as training and access to supervisors.

For some people, the only link to the health system may be through

CHWs: often unpaid volunteers who work at the ‘last mile’ of health

delivery. When deployed well, CHWs can reduce child mortality in

communities by 25 percent or more.

unicefstories.org/model/chwbackpackplus/

USER Frontline Provider


Photo: UNICEF Innovation Unit

STAGE IN PROCESS Prototype


http://chwplus.tumblr.com

http://unicefstories.org/model/chwbackpackplus/


Health, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition

1000 Days Product / Scaling-Up Nutrition Initiative

With the launch of the global Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) project,

UNICEF has developed a mobile service product to support essential

interventions in the 1000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her

child’s second birthday.

The 1000 days mobile tool strengthens front-line health services by

providing mobile services for support across the entire continuum of

care throughout the same time period.

This support includes mobile services for growth monitoring, antenatal

and postnatal visit reminders, HIV/AIDS lab results delivery, and supply

and logistics support for essential medicines.

unicefstories.org/model/1000days/


FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RapidSMS


Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2139/Esteve


http://unicefstories.org/model/1000days/


UNICEF Ventures: Scaling Social Innovations

For UNICEF Ventures, ‘scale’ means ensuring that good ideas reach a

large percentage of a target audience. Impact (for Ventures) means that

UNICEF can help transformative products and services have a positive

effect on the poorest parts of society.

Almost $1 billion is invested every year into a rapidly growing and

increasingly crowded field of social entrepreneurs who are developing

innovations for the poor.

Most social innovations do not achieve widespread adoption, either

because the problem being solved is not well understood, the solution

developed is not designed for scalability or the entrepreneur is not able

to connect with relevant local decision makers and networks.

This initiative will leverage UNICEF’s expertise, reach, and evidence base

to help funders:

1. Vet early stage social investments

2. Support the most promising social entrepreneurs

3. Achieve scale when successful

unicefstories.org/model/unicefventures/


Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0288/Holt


http://unicefstories.org/model/unicefventures/


PRE-FUND INNOVATION[6-12 MONTHS]

EARLY-STAGE INVESTMENT[9-12 MONTHS]

LARGE-SCALE INVESTMENT[ONGOING]

RAPID

ASSESSM

ENT

[1-2 WEEKS]

RAPID

ASSESSM

ENT

[1-2 WEEKS]

Country-developed prototypes with 100% internal funding; no funding to go further

Selected projects get second round of funding; projects sale as appropriate

Failed projects are shared pubicly

Successful projects get added funding for large scale release

Failed projects are shared publicly

Struggling projects continue without added funding

Innovation Fund

The UNICEF Innovation Fund has been modeled on venture investment

structures that can quickly assess, invest in, and scale innovations that work.

It offers staged financing to manage risks, globally rigorous yet regionally

sensitive evaluation and monitoring, and a portfolio-based approach to

UNICEF’s challenges, with technical assistance from the internationally

recognized UNICEF Innovation Unit.

unicefstories.org/model/innovationfund/


Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0156/Quarmyne


http://unicefstories.org/model/innovationfund/


Country Innovation Labsunicefinnovationlabs.org

Country Innovation Labs are physical spaces that bring together

academia, government, civil society and the private sector, as well as

young people. Labs are places to co-create sustainable, open-source

solutions for pressing challenges.

By using new technology and ideas in its programme work, UNICEF

reaches out to communities and the most vulnerable children and

families and creates solutions across borders.

unicefstories.org/model/innovationlab/

USER Benificiary, UN Staff




http://unicefinnovationlabs.org

http://unicefstories.org/model/innovationlab/


Education and Learning

Innovation in Learning

The Innovation in Learning model maps global innovations in learning

around five key areas: 1) access to learning opportunities; 2) quality of

materials; 3) experience working with teachers in new ways; 4) creating

and teaching skills for the 21st century; 5) using technology to refine

learning experiences.

unicefstories.org/model/innovationinlearning/





http://unicefstories.org/model/innovationinlearning/



Child-Friendly Technology Framework

Having a holistic and nuanced understanding of communities and

contexts where you work is critical to a successful programme. The

specific characteristics and needs of the community should inform the

project design and technology selection.

Child-Friendly Technology is a framework to inspire brainstorming

sessions with teams and communities and consider issues during the

development of effective interventions using technology.

unicefstories.org/model/childfriendlytechnology/

USER UN Staff, Government and Policy Makers




http://unicefstories.org/model/childfriendlytechnology/



1000 Days Project / SUN Initiative

Innovation Fund

UNICEF Ventures: Scaling Social Innovations

Country Innovation Lab

Innovation in Learning

Child Friendly Technology

Sub-national Global

Overview of Models

ThematicallyBroad

ThematicallyFocused

CHW Backpack PLUS

National



Innovative systems, tools and products address

the needs of the most vulnerable.

Initiatives

PRINCIPLES . INITIATIVES . PARTNERS Systems and Tools


FOUNDATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Health

Safe Pregnancy and Delivery, RapidSMS Rwandarapidsms.moh.gov.rw

The system helps CHWs track pregnancies, report on danger signs

during pregnancy, subscribe to emergency alerts to ensure that women

can access emergency obstetric care, and provides a real-time national

surveillance mechanism for maternal health.

Rwanda has deployed this system nationwide.

Health, HIV/AIDS

Patient Tracing and Results Delivery, Results160

Results160, used in the Mwana Initiative, has improved test result turn-

around time by over 50%. It delivers early infant diagnosis (HIV) results

to rural and under-served communities in Zambia and Malawi via text

messages rather than paper.

CHWs also register births and trace patients via SMS to ensure that they

receive key childhood interventions.

USER

STAGE IN PROCESS

RapidSMSRapidSMS

Frontline ProviderFrontline Provider

Multi-countryNational


unicefstories.org/tool/safepregnancy/ unicefstories.org/tool/patienttracing/

Photo: UNICEF Innovation UnitPhoto: UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0356/Asselin

http://rapidsms.moh.gov.rw

http://unicefstories.org/tool/safepregnancy/

http://unicefstories.org/tool/patienttracing/


Health, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition

Health Information and Reminders, RemindMi

RemindMi is a SMS reminder system to help CHWs follow up with

mothers and their infants.

CHWs register births over their phones and receive timed reminders to

follow up with mothers to ensure that they are getting essential health

services for their infants, such as HIV testing and immunization.

Nutrition

Nutrition Monitoring, Anthrowatch

Anthrowatch is being used for nutritional surveys and as an ongoing

nutritional monitoring tool in times of food insecurity.

The system provides feedback on the child’s status and tracks progress

over time; it then aggregates the data at a national level. It also addresses

issues of loss-to-follow-up by alerting staff to children who have missed

appointments.

RapidSMSRapidSMS


Multi-countryMulti-country

USER

STAGE IN PROCESS



unicefstories.org/tool/healthreminder/ unicefstories.org/tool/nutritionmonitoring/

Photo: UNICEF Innovation UnitPhoto: UNICEF Innovation Unit

http://unicefstories.org/tool/healthreminder/

http://unicefstories.org/tool/nutritionmonitoring/


Child Protection

Making People Count by Counting People, SMS Birth Reporting

In Nigeria, every birth is reported using text messages and the data is

gathered at a national level. Since 2010, the system has been used to

track the registration of over 8 million births.

The Government of Nigeria use this real-time data to pinpoint teams that

are not performing and identify and solve important bottlenecks.

Health

Ensuring Supply of Essential Commodities, MTraccvs.rapidsms.org

MTrac is an SMS-based disease surveillance and medicine tracking

system. It provides real-time data for response while monitoring health

service delivery performance.

The initiative integrates governance and accountability through

citizen feedback, an anonymous hotline and public dialogue sessions.

UNICEF Uganda and the Ministry of Health are currently rolling this out

nationwide (2012-2014).

RapidSMSRapidSMS


National National


USER

STAGE IN PROCESS


unicefstories.org/tool/smsbirthreporting/ unicefstories.org/tool/mtrac/

Photo: www.cvs.rapidsms.orgPhoto: UNICEF/NYHQ1993-0407/LeMoyne

http://cvs.rapidsms.org

http://unicefstories.org/tool/smsbirthreporting/

http://unicefstories.org/tool/mtrac/


Health, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, WASH, Education & Learning, Child Protection

Monitoring and Visualizing Status of Public Services, DevTracdevtrac.ug

DevTrac is a tool for monitoring development investments made in a

country.

An online map makes national data and real-time information on

development projects available for analysis, accountability and advocacy.

It is currently being used nationwide in Uganda.


School Monitoring System, EduTracedutrac.blogspot.com

EduTrac is a mobile-phone based data-collection system that helps

the Ministry of Education and Sports collect real time data including

attendance, enrollment, etc.

EduTrac helps districts improve their education planning and provides

better and more timely supervision to schools based on system reports.

It is being rolled out nationwide in Uganda.

RapidSMSRapidSMS


Sub-national National



USER

STAGE IN PROCESS

Systems and Tools

unicefstories.org/tool/devtrac/ unicefstories.org/tool/edutrac/

Photo: UNICEF/BANA2013-00714/KhanPhoto: www.devtrac.ug

http://devtrac.ug

http://edutrac.blogspot.com

http://unicefstories.org/tool/devtrac/

http://unicefstories.org/tool/edutrac/


RapidSMSRapidSMS

Benificiary, Government and Policy Makers Frontline Provider

Multi-countryMulti-country

Social Inclusion

Connecting Young People to Government, uReportureport.ug

uReport is an SMS based system that creates dialogue and an essential

link from young people directly to the Government and media. As of

June 2013, there were 210,000 young Ugandans who receive weekly polls

to their phones on community services and relevant issues, and in return

receive results and useful facts for action.

UNICEF publishes results in newspapers, radio and television and

engages members of the parliament and other leaders in dialogue

through media.

Emergency

Applications for Family Tracing and Reunification, RapidFTRrapidftr.com

RapidFTR helps humanitarian workers in emergencies quickly collect

vital information about children who have been separated from their

caregivers, and share it securely with people who can get them help and

find their families.

This open source set of APIs was one of the first projects fully developed

within UNICEF Innovation. It started as a student project in the NYU/ITP

Design For UNICEF class.


USER

STAGE IN PROCESS


unicefstories.org/tool/ureport/ unicefstories.org/tool/rapidftr/

Photo: UNICEF Innovation UnitPhoto: www.ureport.ug

http://ureport.ug

http://rapidftr.com

http://unicefstories.org/tool/ureport/

http://unicefstories.org/tool/rapidftr/


Emergency

Emergency Response Simulation Game

The Emergency Response Simulation Game balances realistic immersion

and game-like experience to illustrate the challenges of humanitarian

relief work.

The open-source, two-hour simulation is aimed at increasing awareness

and developing empathy around emergency humanitarian relief efforts.

UN Staff

Prototype

USER

STAGE IN PROCESS


unicefstories.org/tool/emergencysimulationgame/



Design for UNICEF Curriculum

Each year, students take on a particular challenge area, in a particular

geography, and work closely with end-users in UNICEF Country Offices

to develop relevant solutions.

This class has resulted in products like the water canary and RapidFTR

which have gone on to win awards and go to national scale. This

curriculum has been taught for five semesters at NYU’s Interactive

Telecommunications Program (ITP), and used in varying forms at Aalto,

Art Center College of Design, CUNY, IIT Delhi, and Stanford.

Benificiary

Multi-country

unicefstories.org/tool/designforunicef/


http://unicefstories.org/tool/emergencysimulationgame/

http://unicefstories.org/tool/designforunicef/



Rugged Technology Kit

Over the years, the Innovation Unit has experimented with various

solutions to extend access to information and opportunities. Two historic

examples are the Digital Drum from 2002 and the Bee from 2008.

Currently, the Uganda Country Office is working on the Digital School in

a Box, a solar powered communication hub that can be used to provide

communications, education, connectivity and emergency support in

places lacking electricity, Internet, telephone, radio and other connections.

Benificiary

Prototype

USER

STAGE IN PROCESS


unicefstories.org/tool/ruggedtechkit/

Photo: UNICEF/UGDA2011-00100/Tylle

http://unicefstories.org/tool/ruggedtechkit/


SMS Birth Reporting


RapidFTR

uReport

Design for UNICEF Curriculum

DevTrac

Emergency Simulation Game

Rugged Technology Kit

EduTrac

MTrac

RapidSMSRwanda

RemindMI

Results160

Anthrowatch

Overview of Tools and Systems

Sub-national National Global

ThematicallyBroad

ThematicallyFocused


Innovation Unit research is both operational and

strategic, modeling for new solution spaces and

creating a 3 to 5 year portfolio of future options.

Initiatives

PRINCIPLES . INITIATIVES . PARTNERS Research


unicefstories.org/research/mhealth_tools

How can mHealth innovations be used as health system strengthening tools? 2013 / UNICEF, WHO, Johns Hopkins University and Frog Design

publish mHealth framework in Journal of Global Health: Science and

Practice provides a new framework that lays out 12 common mHealth

applications used as health systems strengthening innovations across

the continuum of care.

unicefstories.org/research/rtmmv/

How can UNICEF leverage real-time monitoring?2013 / Practices, contextualized country studies, and user-friendly

resource materials to inform real-time monitoring work across UNICEF

field offices.

unicefstories.org/research/fellows/

How do we engage mid-career professionals in UNICEF Innovation work?2013 / Research into the concept of an Innovation Fellow, an

entrepreneurial, flexible, self-starter from the private-sector who

collaborates directly with Country Offices.

unicefstories.org/research/hivtransmission/

How can we use mobile phones to eliminate mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV?2012 / Report on how mobile phones can change the way eMTCT health-

care is delivered in the most rural and underserved parts of the world

through real-time, two-way communication with communities.


Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2006-2706/Noorani

http://unicefstories.org/research/mhealth_tools

http://unicefstories.org/research/rtmmv/

http://unicefstories.org/research/fellows/

http://unicefstories.org/research/hivtransmission/


unicefstories.org/research/openresearch/

How can we undertake Open Research?2012 / A template for conducting Open Research - research that has

“open and accessible content” where anyone can participate as an editor,

writer, or researcher.

unicefstories.org/research/psfk1/

What is the future of real-time information?2011 / Report identifying emergent key trends around the capture and

transmission of real-time information streams.

unicefstories.org/research/ccm/

How can mobile phones support Community Case Management?2011 / CHWs can use their phones to get information, ask for advice, re-

order life-saving drugs, and receive feedback from the formal health system.

unicefstories.org/research/chw/

How do Community Health Workers use mobile phones?2011 / Investigation, development and documentation of mobile tools

that support the needs of CHWs in resource constrained environments.

unicefstories.org/research/m4d/

How can UNICEF partner with mobile service providers? 2010 / Study identifying ways in which UNICEF and partners use mobile

technology and engage with mobile operators.


Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2012-2178/Nesbitt

http://unicefstories.org/research/openresearch/

http://unicefstories.org/research/psfk1/

http://unicefstories.org/research/ccm/

http://unicefstories.org/research/chw/

http://unicefstories.org/research/m4d/


unicefstories.org/research/mmoney/

How can mobile financial services support development? 2010 / Assessment of opportunities to integrate mobile financial services

(sending and receiving money using mobile phones) into UNICEF’s work

in the areas of health, social protection, and finance and administration.

unicefstories.org/research/psfk2/

What is the future of health technology? 2010 / Emerging industry- and user-trends in health technology with inputs

on creative solutions and ideas from top creative agencies in New York.

unicefstories.org/research/teen_tech/

How do adolescent girls use technology in developing world?2010 / A chapter in “Adolescent Girls, Cornerstone of Society” (The New

School) on how adolescent girls interact with technology, with strategies

for collaborating and empowering them.

unicefstories.org/research/edutech/

How do you build an education technology project?2010 / Guide for UNICEF Country Offices to assist in the planning of

technology and education, and providing a framework of considerations

and processes for implementing programmes at scale. This fed into

development of the Child-Friendly Technology Framework Model, 2013.

unicefstories.org/research/m4c/

What are key trends in technology for children? 2009 / A chapter in the academic text “Mobile Technology for Children”

on how to create appropriate technology for, and with, young people,

exploring open-source licensing, co-creation, and user anthropology.


Photo: UNICEF/INDA2013-00096/Singh

http://unicefstories.org/research/mmoney/

http://unicefstories.org/research/psfk2/

http://unicefstories.org/research/teen_tech/

http://unicefstories.org/research/edutech/

http://unicefstories.org/research/m4c/


Partners bring different skills, viewpoints and networks around global challenges.

1. International Agencies and Organizations

2. Private Sector

3. Academia



International Agencies and Organizations

Partnerships allow us to bring different sets of

skills, viewpoints, and influence to focus on the

challenges facing women and children.

The Innovation Unit’s partnerships are

built around five key principles (pp. 6-7)

which ensure that innovations developed in

collaboration are in the public domain, focused

on end users, and created in a way that builds

local talent and capacity.

Partners:

FEMA

Global Pulse

UNDP

UN Foundation

UNFPA

USAID

WHO

World Bank

unicefstories.org/partners/international/


http://unicefstories.org/partners/international/


Private Sector

Private sector innovation and parastatal

partners have a keen interest in the Technology

for Development ecosystem.

Partners:

Frog Design Inc.

GE

Johnson and Johnson

MTN Nigeria

Thoughtworks

Uganda Telecom

unicefstories.org/partners/private/


http://unicefstories.org/partners/private/


City University of New YorkCUNY’s Design for UNICEF Challenge is

based on the user-centered design principles

developed in the NYU courses, but open

to CUNY’s 270,000 students, and aimed at

developing solutions to stop some of the main

killers of children under five.

Indian Institute of Technology, DelhiA short, one-week version of “Design for

UNICEF” was taught to IIT graduate students.

The university is also exploring plans to

develop a UNICEF Innovation Lab aimed at

exporting open-source solutions developed

locally.

Aalto UniversityAalto University has sent students to Uganda

to work in collaboration with Makerere

University and end users in the field. Aalto

students explore solutions for water, sanitation,

and other areas of UNICEF interest.

Art Center College of DesignWorking with the Art Center College of Design,

UNICEF has supported the Media Design

Matters Program to create an engagement

with students where they spend six weeks in a

Country Office. They work closely with UNICEF

staff and partners as well as with the end users

in the field.

Academia

Academic collaboration involves a wide range

of UNICEF staff working with students to

explore new ways of solving problems. These

collaborations have produced different ways of

thinking about key commodities and systems,

compelling research, and vibrant new staff

members.

unicefstories.org/partners/academia/


http://unicefstories.org/partners/academia/


Academia


Makerere UniversityMakerere University‘s ongoing relationship

with UNICEF Uganda supports joint events such

as the RapidSMS / FrontlineSMS Learning Fair

and the World Bank Institute sponsored WASH

Code Jam.

New York UniversityUNICEF staff co-developed and co-teach the

Design for UNICEF class at NYU’s Interactive

Telecommunications Program. A number of

projects, including RapidFTR, have come out of

this class.

Singularity UniversityUNICEF and Singularity will be working

together to engage graduate students around

issues of global impact, and then situating

dynamic problem-solvers in the UNICEF

Innovation Lab network in the field.

Stanford UniversityStanford University’s Mechanical Engineering

310 course has been focused on innovations

in child survival – particularly looking at

Community Health Workers and delivery of

services at the last mile. A group of students

from Stanford traveled to Nigeria and worked

with the Country Office to test their prototype

in the field with end users.


RapidSMS - a system that uses basic mobile phones and SMS messages to improve the speed and quality of data collection - was awarded Gold and Silver IDSA Awards.

The Digital Drum was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 inventions of 2011.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) eHealth Award, has recognized the Ministry of Health of Uganda for its MTrac initiative, describing it as one of the top ten eHealth projects of 2013.

UNICEF Innovation Labs won a Redhat Prize for being one of the world’s top four open-source projects.

Awards and Recognition

Core 77 Design Awards, student runner-up Elephant-Tap is a hard-wearing, theft deterrent water tap developed by Aalto University and UNICEF Finland. It has been designed for schools in developing countries.

UNICEF Emergency Response Simulation Game received the professional notable recognition at the Core 77 Design Awards. It balances realistic immersion and game-like experience to illustrate the challenges of humanitarian relief work.

In recognition of the innovative and ground-breaking work being done by many the UNICEF’s Country Offices, and the ability of UNICEF to scale successful, open-source projects, Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi were awarded TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013.

With an introduction by Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, TIME highlighted RapidSMS and real time information for action.

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