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Article
31 January 2023
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 ...
Press release
11 November 2021
UNICEF and Jumia launch a partnership to help Giga connect schools in Africa to the Internet
NEW YORK/LAGOS, 11 November 2021 – UNICEF and African e-commerce platform Jumia (NYSE: JMIA) announced today a partnership in support of Giga’s work to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. Jumia’s data science capacity will offer Giga insights into...
Article
31 March 2020
UNICEF Innovation Fund Graduate: Imisi 3D
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is proud to see portfolio member, Imisi 3D, 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 collaborate...
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07 February 2019
Virtual Reality in the Classroom
In December 2018, the UNICEF Innovation Fund announced its largest investment round yet - thirteen new startup companies using frontier technology solutions to create fairer opportunities for children. Among these 13 is a female-founded start-up from Nigeria called Imisi 3D . According to the founder, Judith Okonk...
Article
09 December 2018
IMISI 3D: Providing locally tailored, interactive content using VR to transform education
Imisi 3D’s solution aims to provide quality education by designing educational modules that will enrich and better learning experiences. Originally, leVRn C3 was a roughly thought out idea that focused on teaching kids how to code using hand-based gestures in VR. It has since evolved to become a VR solution that c...
Article
19 October 2017
U-Report Reaches 2 Million Nigerian Responders
More than half global U-Report responders are in Nigeria ABUJA, 16 October 2017 – U-Report, UNICEF’s unique social media platform to engage with communities on issues that affect them, surpassed two million registered responders in Nigeria today. U-Report uses simple Short Message Service (SMS) messages and soci...
Article
24 October 2016
RapidPro for Nutrition in Nigeria
Across Northern Nigeria, UNICEF is scaling up the use of RapidPro for the monitoring and evaluation of both the prevention and treatment of malnutrition. RapidPro is the UNICEF INNOVATION open-source tool that allows two-way communication by text messaging. For this project, we are half way through our scale u...
Article
31 August 2015
U-Report Nigeria Reaches 1 Million
Nigeria has become the first country to reach one million responders on the SMS-based U-Report platform, designed to strengthen community-led development and citizen engagement, UNICEF announced today. Group of U-reporters Group of U-reporters UNICEF’s Global Innovations team has launched U-Report in 17 countries,...
Article
05 May 2015
U-Report Now Live in Nigeria
UNICEF Nigeria and its partners officially launched U-Report on 29 April 2015, a year after its inception with close to 200,000 registered users. The event took place at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos and was hosted by Nigeria’s very own Toke Makinwa renowned MC, TV and radio talk show host. U-R...
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17 June 2014
A Voice for Nigerian Communities
UNICEF Nigeria under the leadership of the Health Section working closely with the Communications for Development and with full support of the Senior Management started UReport in the country; with already ten thousand UReporters registered a little over a month since UReport Nigeria started, it is exciting to wat...