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Design for UNICEF Challenge: Fall 2014: Top 5 Teams Announced
Note: This story is part of a series of posts about the Innovation Unit’s most recent round of Design for UNICEF programs, which engage students from diverse backgrounds around priority issues in...
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Interview with Global Design for UNICEF Challenge Winners: HealthConnect
1. What inspired you to enter this UNICEF Challenge? Our team got inspired by Nicaragua itself. We are a very beautiful, culturally rich country with magnificent spots all over the country. But sadly,...
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Re-imagining the future in Bluefields, Nicaragua: launching the Innovation Lab
Kevin Mendes, UNV Specialist in Social Policy and Innovation with UNICEF Nicaragua When thinking about innovation, one’s mind goes – as mine does, or did, before joining UNICEF in January – to state of...
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“I Listen”– Empathy-Driven Policies
My grandma with my mom – no smile, no wrinkles (@Adler) Back in my teen years, I would roll my eyes every time my grandmother would bestow on her prophetic advice on me. Granted, her advice would make...
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I see… But do you really?!
Typical teenager stare @GoogleImages2015 That was the question I kept asking my son who was crying and fussing nonstop one night many years ago. My pleas went unanswered until I decided to take matters...
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The Innovation Lab and El Bluff: an experience of multi-sectoral catalysis
By Ana-Julia Van Bilsen Irías, Innovation intern for UNICEF and the BICU Innovation Lab “It’s amazing, we can finally speak and give our opinion concerning the problems that affect us” Young students...
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The Innovation Lab and El Bluff: an experience of multi-sectoral catalysis
By Ana-Julia Van Bilsen Irías, Innovation intern for UNICEF and the BICU Innovation Lab, Nicaragua “It’s amazing, we can finally speak and give our opinion about the solutions to the problems that are...
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Prototyping Human-Centered Policies for Children in Nicaragua
By Milja Laakso, Programme Officer, Innovation Unit, UNICEF In an evangelic free church in Orinoco, a Garifuna village in the Southern Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, the Saturday night mass is in its...
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Young innovators series: Scarleth Vasconcelos on her desire to create...
By Pilar Lagos Name: Scarleth Vasconcelos Villavicencio Age: 21 Scarleth graduated from the American College in Nicaragua, where she studied Renewable Energy Engineering. She is currently working on...
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Social Innovation Camp: Creating Solutions that Stimulate Community Commitment
The Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University (BICU) Innovation Laboratory, with the support of UNICEF, held its second Social Innovation Camp on June 3rd and 4th, 2016 in Pearl Lagoon, a small...
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