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Dan Isaí Alvarez Ruano has been selected as part of UNICEF Innovation30: Young Innovators Shaping the Future. Countries of Solution Deployment: Guatemala Innovation Accelerator: Solution incubated by UNICEF Guatemala and UNICEF’s Innovation Spark Incubator Dan Isaí, 27, is an Embedded Systems Electrical Engineer...
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Dronebots: Revolutionizing Emergency Relief Efforts
As a child, Dan Alvarez looked up at the sky and dreamed of working in space. His graduation thesis in electrical engineering earned him an internship with the team that launched Guatemala’s first satellite. Today, the 27-year-old Guatemalan engineer is working in partnership with UNICEF to develop drones that tra...
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Sparking Innovation Across UNICEF and Beyond
Spanning over 190 countries, UNICEF staff operate on the frontlines of humanitarian and development response. Collectively we share a vantage point to see opportunities, identify emerging trends and co-create transformational solutions to some of the most challenging issues affecting the lives of children and thei...
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Guatemala UNICEF and UNDP Innovating Together
UNICEF and UNDP joined forces to launch the Innovation Week in its second edition. The objective of this virtual open innovation activity was to promote the co-creation of innovating ideas that contribute to solve critical problems the Country is facing today., The scale and ambition of the 2030 Agenda and the SDG...
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Guatemala Launches National Innovation Award
UNICEF and the National Secretariat for Science and Technology of Guatemala (SENACYT) joined forces to launch the Innovation National Award for Childhood and Adolescence. The objective of this national award is to support innovative and technological efforts to find more efficient and optimal solutions to the prob...
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UNICEF Innovation Fund Graduate: Afinidata
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is proud to see portfolio member, Afinidata, graduate. They’ve come a long way – from numerous product iterations to deep diving into understanding their ecosystem better, strengthening their business model, and gearing up to take their solution to market. They’re now ready to collaborat...
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Forging Alliances for Guatemalan Children
Campus Tec Guatemala, also known as "Silicon Valley with Beans," and the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, signed an historic and promising alliance that seeks the co-creation and generation of ideas and technological innovations in products, services and processes to implement solutions to solve in a differ...
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Afinidata: Using artificial intelligence to provide access to quality early childhood education.
Afinidata is creating an artificial intelligence chatbot that helps parents create fun and educational activities for their children under six. Using artificial intelligence, we provide instantaneous access to quality early childhood education resources to thousands of parents anywhere in the world. The idea for t...