“When AI is tailored and properly channeled to local realities, it creates lasting solutions with global relevance,” writes Toluwani Victor Aliu in the World Economic Forum, showcasing 3 grassroots examples of AI improving daily life in emerging economies. Read here 👉🏿 https://lnkd.in/d9a5WSzX UNICEF’s Leaving No Local Emergency Responders Behind initiative is harnessing AI and machine learning in the Democratic Republic of Congo to empower local emergency responders by rapidly and accurately translating learning materials into Swahili. Find out more 👉🏿 https://lnkd.in/d5ymTUsB UNICEF in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNICEF Africa
UNICEF Innovation
Non-profit Organizations
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At UNICEF Innovation, we co-create to discover, iterate and scale innovative solutions for every child everywhere.
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At UNICEF Innovation, we co-create to discover, iterate and scale innovative solutions for every child everywhere.
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https://www.unicef.org/innovation/
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 51-200 employees
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- Stockholm, Stockholm
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- 2006
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- Innovation, Technology, Open Source, drones, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, Data Science , Artificial Intelligence, Design Thinking , Human Centred Design, Venture Fund, Partnerships, 3D-Printing, Virtual Reality, Real-Time Information, UPSHIFT, and Wearables for good
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“She’s no longer afraid to raise her hand or participate in the classroom,” Erika, mother, Uruguay. Her daughter Julieta and her 5th grade classmates are now using Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADTs), with features such as: 📘 Adjustable fonts 📘 Real-aloud options 📘 Sign language videos 📘 Image descriptions Uruguay is 1 of 11 countries using ADTs in classrooms to boost learning opportunities for children with disabilities, with plans to expand to 19 more countries by 2030. 🌎 Find out more about Julieta’s story 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/dcSuuP-A Ceibal, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (MEC), UNICEF Uruguay, UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean, UNICEF Innocenti
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The first global UNICEF Game Jam wrapped up with more than 50 original video games created by young people across eight countries, tackling themes from climate action to culture awareness. 🎮 Guided by industry mentors and equipped with UNICEF’s first online course for video game development, participants showed how video games can build digital skills, spark creativity, and drive social impact. The UNICEF Game Changers Coalition is proud to reveal the seven outstanding video games selected by the jury of industry experts from Dambuster Studios, Micron Technology, Samsung Electronics, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. 🎉 Congratulations to the teams selected by the expert panel! 🩵 Thank you to every young participant for sharing your creations. Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dysfhFcJ Video Games Europe, Entertainment Software Association, Bitget, Micron Foundation, #GVGC
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🆕 Article: Can AI help make inclusive education a reality? Uruguay is showing how. In 2025, 30 schools in Uruguay piloted the country’s first AI-powered Accessible Digital Textbook (ADT) – a new way to make learning work for all children, including students with and without disabilities. 📖 ADTs are curriculum-aligned textbooks designed following Universal Design for Learning principles: audio narration, simplified text, image descriptions, and flexible ways to learn. Traditionally, creating one took months. 🤝 Since 2024, UNICEF and AI experts are partnering with Uruguay’s Ministry of Education and Culture and Ceibal to speed up the process. By using generative AI, Uruguay can now transform printed textbooks and storybooks into ADTs in days or weeks — while keeping experts in the lead to review, refine, and ensure quality. How did they do it ❓ 1️⃣ Incorporating AI into the production model 2️⃣ Building a tailored AI tool using UDL principles + accessibility standards 3️⃣ Using expert feedback to shape and refine the AI tool 4️⃣ Launching the pilot 5️⃣ Learning from the experience This pilot shows that when human expertise and technology work together, inclusion for students can scale — and no child is left behind. And the AI tool will be open-sourced and LLM agnostic before the end of 2025! 🔗 Read the article: https://lnkd.in/dfQ4s587 Sophia Torres, Marta Carnelli, Julie de Barbeyrac Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (MEC), Ceibal, UNICEF Uruguay, UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean, UNICEF Innovation #DigitalEducation #DigitalTextbooks #AccessibleDigitalTextbooks #EdTech #Inclusion #InclusiveEducation #Education #EducationResearch #ImplementationResearch #ForEveryChild
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“AI-driven citizen science can move monitoring from reactive observation to proactive management, enabling communities to intervene before environmental issues escalate,” writes Anurit Kanti and Pratik Kunwar in World Economic Forum. Read more 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/dvjgyHYs The UNICEF Venture Fund has launched the Climate Innovation Challenge to help combat the effects of climate change affecting children and their communities. We're looking for early- and growth-stage tech startups in emerging economies developing: 🟢 Solutions that protect children from climate-related health risks 🟢 AI + data tools powering climate and community resilience Apply by 21 October 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/dkUsuvvB Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), India Health Fund
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Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships @UNICEF
Investing in children is one of the smartest and most impactful choices the world can make. That’s why it was such a pleasure to join the launch of LAC Future Bank: a bold initiative by CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe- aiming to mobilize $5 billion over five years to reach 50 million children, adolescents, and young people across the Latin America and Caribbean region. At UNICEF, we are proud to welcome this groundbreaking step. With LAC Future Bank, CAF becomes the first multilateral development bank to implement UNICEF’s Child-Lens Investing Framework (CLIF) – putting children where they belong: at the heart of investment decisions that shape not only their futures, but the future of entire generations. The initiative will also focus on developing other innovative financing solutions that deliver tangible results for children. This ambition could not come at a more critical moment. Today, nearly 60% of child-focused SDGs are off track in Latin America and the Caribbean. And as our Executive Director Catherine Russell reminded us, behind every statistic there are real children, facing real challenges, every single day. As CAF’s Executive President Sergio Díaz-Granados said: “This initiative marks a significant commitment from the Global South to future generations. Investing in children and youth is not only a moral obligation, but the most cost-effective investment we can make for the sustainable development of our region.” And I could not agree more. Together, we are showing what’s possible when we put children first. For more details read the Press release 👉 http://bit.ly/4gKsDgz Sergio Díaz Granados Guida Mia Amor Mottley, Pasi Hellman, Qatar Fund for Development Jorge García Lema Jose Adolfo Quisocala Condori Christian Asinelli Roberto Benes Francesco Saverio Ambrogetti, Cristina Bertolino, UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean
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Day in and day out, UNICEF works with diverse frontier tech partners and collaborators accelerating impact for children, young people and their communities. Here we spotlight some of the fintech specialists, computer scientists, technologists, health professionals, teachers and students who are leading and using innovative solutions. 👇🏾 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dtgHHqQd UNICEF Brasil , UNICEF East Asia and Pacific, eSusFarm®, UNICEF Uruguay, UNICEF Bangladesh, UNICEF Timor-Leste
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Across the globe, youth today are AI natives using the technology to build solutions grounded in climate optimism. Young innovators were center stage at The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, UNICEF and ServiceNow co-hosted event championed by THE NAT. From turning locally reported environmental data into collective action in Mali (Mohamed Doumbia, MapAction), delivering hyperlocal air quality models for communities (Christina Last, AQAI) to mapping coral reef restoration across our blue planet (Titouan Bernicot, Coral Gardeners), these machine learning & AI-powered solutions showcase that technology + creativity+ empathy is creating real solutions for people and planet. Their message was clear: ✅ Innovation must value nature, not exploit it. ✅ Collaboration and learning across organizations and industries is the only way forward to meet the scale of demand. ✅ The climate optimism of young entrepreneurs across the globe is contagious and must be supported intentionally. Ensuring climate ventures succeed will pay dividends for us all. The UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge will support solutions developed in and for emerging economies. Help us spread the word and encourage start-ups to apply by 08 October. More information available here 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/dkUsuvvB #YouthInnovation #ClimateAction #TechForGood #NaturePositive
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Young people are leading the way on climate action. In Laos, youth advocates are stepping up with innovative, community-driven solutions to address the climate crisis. With support from our partnership with Arm and through UPSHIFT, the social entrepreneurship programme led by UNICEF Innovation, these young leaders are turning ideas into action — from green initiatives to technology-powered solutions. Coinciding with #ClimateWeekNYC, when innovation for climate solutions is high on the global agenda. It’s a powerful reminder that by equipping young people with the tools and platforms to lead, they can drive change locally and inspire action globally. Watch how UNICEF Laos is working with young people to tackle one of the greatest challenges of our time. #ClimateAction #YouthLed #Innovation
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Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships @UNICEF
Today we launched the LAC Future Bank, a bold initiative by The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean - CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe- which aims to mobilize $5 billion over five years to reach 50 million children, adolescents, and young people across the region (keep tuned for more information on that soon!) In advance of today's launch, I spoke to Reuters in the run up to #ClimateWeek and #UNGA. I was clear that investing in children has a high ROI. Research shows $1 spent on a child today can yield up to $10 in societal benefits, and $1 spent on education is increased 20-fold over time toward GDP. If those were the returns from an investment portfolio, we would be drooling. Read my full interview here 👉 http://unicef.link/3VAufji #foreverychild #innovativefinance Roberto Benes, Francesco Saverio Ambrogetti, Cristina Bertolino, UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean