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UPSHIFT Vietnam: Kim Van is fulfilling her dream of helping people with...
I still remember our first encounter with Kim Van, head of the “Assist People with Disabilities on Public Transportation” project, when we organized our first UPSHIFT outreach session at the Center for...
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UPSHIFT Vietnam: The Journey Continues
Continuing from our previous update, 10 teams with a total of 31 participants were identified through a judging process from a pool of 93 applications. Out of the 31 participants, 49% of which were...
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UPSHIFT Vietnam: Impact through Incubation
Members of the four final teams with their mentors and the UPSHIFT team, including Mr. Jesper Moller, Deputy Representative at UNICEF VietnamUPSHIFT Demo Day © UNICEF/Innovations Lab Ho Chi...
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Young Makers in Vietnam work to change the lives of Children with Disabilities
Trying on the Touch-Up hand for the first time. UNICEF Viet Nam\2016\Truong Viet Hung From June 3rd to 5th 2016, 7 teams consisting of over 70 young people including designers, engineers, artisans,...
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The First UNICEF Innovation Fund Mentors’ Meeting: 11th – 12th December 2016...
UNICEF’s Innovation Fund has recently announced investments in 5 open source tech start-ups, in the first set of seed capital investments for the fund. In addition to financing, UNICEF Innovation...
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Open source business models: Do investors see value in investing in open...
An Investor’s Perspective Interview with Joel Monegro, Analyst at Union Square Ventures. The UNICEF Innovation Fund invests exclusively in open source solutions, and we often get asked whether a...
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Goggles for the blind: Young inventors pushing boundaries
By James Powell “Children’s brains are capable of problem solving in ways adults, confined by convention, cannot,” says Professor Gupta surrounded by hundreds of brilliant young inventors and...
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“I imagine Ghana” incubator programme – meet their 7 changemakers and where...
By Sylvester Baffoe, M&E Officer, UNICEF Ghana Challenges faced by children and their families have rapidly evolved due to urbanization, climate change, lack of employment opportunities, broken...
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Build the Next Generation of Communication Solutions for People with...
By Ariam Mogos – Learning Lead, Ventures Team, UNICEF Office of Innovation. Twitter: @aamogos Are you developing the next generation of communication solutions for people with disabilities? Looking for...
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Social Innovators from 22 Country Offices gather in Kosovo to create UPSHIFT 2.0
by Lisar Morina & Katherine Crisp Prishtina, Kosovo — UNICEF Kosovo and UNICEF’s Global Innovation Centre, brought together stakeholders from more than 22 countries including Vietnam, Guatemala,...
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