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Building a Healthier Future
Over the past two years, a staggering 67 million children worldwide have missed out on life-saving vaccinations and significant public health challenges are emerging, with vaccination coverage declining in 112 countries. While immunization is crucial in preventing millions of child deaths each year, achieving vacc...
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Young Girls Gain STEAM in Gaming Hackathons
From 2016-2020, less than 6 per cent of global development aid was targeted to work on adolescent girls. Increased investments in girl-centred programs are urgently needed to bridge gender gaps in education, digital literacy, and life skills training. Through the Game Changers Coalition , UNICEF is collaborating ...
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Exploring Blockchain for Digital Inclusion
Blockchain technology has great potential to deliver transformational change for children and their communities. Based on lessons learned three years on from our first selection of startups using the technology, UNICEF Venture Fund is going further to explore the use of the technology. The Fund is committed to ...
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UNICEF Venture Fund Child Online Safety Cohort Update
Digital technology provides children and young people with wider access to information, culture, communication, and entertainment in a way that was impossible to imagine just 20 years ago., With these extraordinary benefits, however, come hazards; these same tools may also increase children’s exposure to online ri...
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UNICEF invests in digital solutions for Child Online Safety
The UNICEF Venture Fund, in partnership with the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, invests in two new startups developing Open Source, AI-powered solutions to address digital risks to children. , The new cohort will receive equity-free investments in USD through the UNICEF Venture Fund and year-...
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Bioverse Labs: Using drones and AI to support the sustainability of the Amazonian ecosystem
Pop quiz! How many species would you guess are on Earth? It’s okay, no one knows for sure, but based on previous research, it’s estimated that there could be nearly 9 million species on planet Earth! Yet, despite humanity’s impressive technological and tool-creating prowess, we’ve only discovered and catalogued ...
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A Week in the Life of an Innovation Colleague: Part 3
Day 4: To The Border The day to Pacaraima, the actual border-crossing between Venezuela and Brazil was crucial. To see the triage point, the curated series of benches to allow for the flow of human traffic to ease through each section. The reception centre, the point where those arriving can make a 3-minute phone ...
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A Week in the Life of an Innovation Colleague: Part 2
The Morning of Day 3: To The School It becomes very apparent very quickly on visiting Antônio Ferreira school that there is a segment of the Venezuelan population in Boa Vista who have settled and integrated fully into local society. A group of 10 students aged 14-16 sit around a table covered in a red and white c...
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A Trip to the Amazonas
Manaus is the capital city of the Amazonas state in Brazil. With 2 million inhabitants – half of the population of the Amazonas state – it is the 7th largest city in the country and one of the host cities of the 2014 World Cup. However, unlike other big cities, Manaus lacks accessible roads – disconnecting the are...