Many voices, many stories

In countries and communities across the globe, people are doing remarkable things to make the world better for every child. Here are some of their experiences and insights.

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Listen up! Hearing clearly with help from the sun

By UNICEF

Global
- Activate Talks,
- Disabilities,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Education,
- Empowerment,
- Green technology,
- Local solutions,
- Scalability
- ...
Building a greener future

By Bisman Deu

Young Inventor
- Design,
- Green technology,
- Local solutions,
- Low cost,
- South Asia,
- Young inventors
- ...
Empowering communities to tackle malnutrition

By Steve Collins

Valid Nutrition
- Disruption,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Empowerment,
- Evaluation,
- Health,
- Nutrition,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
The power of disruptors

By Ben Ramalingam

Humanitarian Innovation Fund
- Disruption,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Empowerment,
- Nutrition,
- Participation,
- Poverty,
- South Asia,
- The Americas and Caribbean,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Video

A tiny computer lets Syrian refugees learn

By UNICEF

Global
- Connectivity,
- Design,
- Education,
- Middle East and North Africa,
- Unconventional learning
- ...
Inspired by my brother, I stood up to bullies everywhere

By Viraj Puri

Young Inventor
- Child rights,
- Design,
- Empowerment,
- Participation,
- Protection,
- Young inventors
- ...
Innovation, child protection and the post-2015 agenda

By Yoka Brandt

UNICEF
- Empowerment,
- Protection,
- Scalability
Simple toys make learning science fun

By Arvind Gupta

Muktangan Vidnyan Shodhika
- Do-it-yourself,
- Education,
- Play,
- Science,
- South Asia,
- Unconventional learning
- ...
A toy for every child

By Giorgi Demetrashvili

First Step Georgia
- Activate Talks,
- Central and Eastern Europe,
- Disabilities,
- Do-it-yourself,
- Low cost,
- Play
- ...
The nursery of the future

By Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Maria Oden and Elizabeth Molyneux
- Adaptability,
- Design,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Health,
- Infrastructure,
- Low cost,
- Research,
- Scarcity
- ...
Video

Learning at their fingertips

By UNICEF

Global
BRAIGO and my quest to make an advanced, affordable Braille printer

By Shubham Banerjee

Young Inventor
- Design,
- Disabilities,
- Do-it-yourself,
- Low cost,
- Play,
- Trial and error,
- Young inventors
- ...
How U-report is helping to fight Ebola in Liberia

By UNICEF

Innovation
- Adaptability,
- Connectivity,
- Health,
- Infrastructure,
- Mobile phones,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Designing for change

By Emily Cummins

Young Inventor
- Design,
- Disabilities,
- Gender,
- Green technology,
- Low cost,
- Water and sanitation,
- Young inventors
- ...
Innovating for a healthy future

By Seth Berkley

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
- Health,
- Immunization,
- Markets,
- Partnerships
Video

Now we’re cooking!

By UNICEF

Uganda
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Education,
- Green technology,
- Local solutions,
- Nutrition
- ...
Video

Building robots – and confidence

By UNICEF

Global
- Activate Talks,
- Do-it-yourself,
- Education,
- Participation,
- Play,
- The Americas and Caribbean,
- Unconventional learning
- ...
Video

A treasure of their own

By Rita Panicker Pinto

Butterflies
- Central and Eastern Europe,
- Disruption,
- Empowerment,
- Local solutions,
- Participation,
- Poverty,
- Scalability,
- South Asia,
- Unconventional learning,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Accessible e-books for equal opportunity

By Jim Fruchterman

Benetech
- Disabilities,
- Education
Pee is for power

By Abiola Akindele, Zainab Eniola Bello, Adebola Duro-Aina, Oluwatoyin Faleke
- Design,
- Do-it-yourself,
- Green technology,
- Infrastructure,
- Local solutions,
- Low cost,
- Scarcity,
- Trial and error,
- West and Central Africa,
- Young inventors
- ...
Profits and progress: Cause-related marketing

By Wade Hoxtell

Global Public Policy Institute
- Business,
- Immunization,
- Markets,
- Nutrition,
- Partnerships
It’s a boat. It’s a school. It’s a livelihood booster.

By Mohammed Rezwan

Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha
- Adaptability,
- Education,
- Gender,
- Green technology,
- Health,
- Infrastructure,
- Local solutions,
- South Asia,
- Unconventional learning
- ...
Video

Building the antenna: Fanele’s story

By UNICEF

Office of Research - Innocenti
- Connectivity,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Local solutions,
- Mobile phones,
- Participation
- ...
Technology, teaching and learning

By Daniel Light

Center for Children & Technology
Mobile blogging gives people a voice

By Paulo Rogerio Nunes

Ethnic Media Institute
- Activate Talks,
- Empowerment,
- Mobile phones,
- Participation,
- The Americas and Caribbean
- ...
Good design is only the beginning

By Krista Donaldson and Robert Weiss
- Adaptability,
- Business,
- Design,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Health,
- Low cost,
- Markets,
- Research,
- Scalability,
- South Asia
- ...
Access to justice for all the world’s children

By Sharon Detrick

Defence for Children - ECPAT
Video

Finding my passion for social innovation

By Diana Marusic

Young Inventor
- Activate Talks,
- Central and Eastern Europe,
- Disabilities,
- Young inventors
- ...
Enhancing education through active learning

By Desmond Mitchell

Global Minimum Inc.
- Education,
- Empowerment,
- Participation,
- Unconventional learning,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
A mobile lens on children’s rights

By Olivier Nyirubugara

Voices of Africa Media Foundation
- Child rights,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Education,
- Empowerment,
- Mobile phones,
- Participation,
- Protection,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Collaboration, the key to successful innovation

By Osama Brosh

Young Inventor
- Disabilities,
- Middle East and North Africa,
- Mobile phones,
- Young inventors
- ...
Pathways less traveled: From scarcity to solutions

By Smita Srinivas

Columbia University
- Adaptability,
- Design,
- Disabilities,
- Health,
- Immunization,
- Low cost,
- Research,
- Scarcity,
- South Asia,
- The Americas and Caribbean,
- Water and sanitation
- ...
Feeling the sounds of safer streets

By Isamar Cartagena

Young Inventor
Think green, go blue!

By Misha Patel and Manushi Nilesh

Young Inventors
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Green technology,
- Science,
- Trial and error,
- Water and sanitation,
- Young inventors
- ...
When ideas come to life

By Mohamed Bangura

Young Inventor
A glow-in-the-dark lifeline for informal settlements

By Nicola Jacobs

Young Inventor
- Design,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Infrastructure,
- Local solutions,
- Young inventors
- ...
Cash and cognitive development

By Karen Macours

Paris School of Economics
- Disruption,
- Early childhood,
- Education,
- Empowerment,
- Evaluation,
- Nutrition,
- Poverty,
- The Americas and Caribbean
- ...
Consider the Cellphone

By Catherine Wong

Young Inventor
- Adaptability,
- Design,
- Health,
- Infrastructure,
- Mobile phones,
- Young inventors
- ...
Influencing markets to reduce vaccine prices

By UNICEF

Supply Division
- Design,
- Health,
- Immunization,
- Low cost
Video

Text 878 for change

By UNICEF

Office of Research - Innocenti
- Activate Talks,
- Connectivity,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Empowerment,
- Mobile phones,
- Participation
- ...
Ideas matter for equity in education

By Fernando Reimers

Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Adaptability,
- Early childhood,
- Education,
- Partnerships
Making sense of the crowd

By UNICEF

Innovation
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Mobile phones,
- Participation,
- Poverty,
- Protection,
- The Americas and Caribbean,
- Trial and error,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Saving children’s lives through mobile technology

By Jacob Korenblum

Souktel Mobile Solutions
- Connectivity,
- Education,
- Infrastructure,
- Middle East and North Africa,
- Mobile phones,
- Protection
- ...
Designing for impact

By Dean Karlan and Nathanael Goldberg
- Adaptability,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Poverty,
- Scalability,
- South Asia,
- The Americas and Caribbean,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Social technologies to save children from disease

By Rebecca Hanlin

AfricaLics
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Health,
- Immunization,
- Markets,
- Partnerships,
- South Asia,
- West and Central Africa
- ...
Technology diffusion and its impact on children

By Thomas Woodson

Stony Brook University
- Education,
- Policy,
- Poverty,
- Science
Making Makers: the need to spread creativity and hands-on learning

By David Sengeh

Global Minimum Inc.
- Design,
- Disabilities,
- Empowerment,
- Participation,
- West and Central Africa,
- Young inventors
- ...
Lab and Village: Reimagining how science can serve children

By James Radner, Karlee Silver and Nathaniel Foote
- Adaptability,
- Early childhood,
- Gender,
- Health,
- Local solutions,
- Play,
- Research,
- Scalability,
- Science,
- South Asia,
- The Americas and Caribbean
- ...
Video

Barefoot social workers reach vulnerable children in rural China

By UNICEF

China
- Activate Talks,
- Early childhood,
- East Asia and the Pacific,
- Local solutions,
- Protection
- ...
Innovation with and for children

By Allison Druin

Future of Information Alliance
- Design,
- Education,
- Participation,
- Research
Giving everyone a voice

By Balázs Zsombori

Young Inventor
Developing drugs as if children mattered

By Thomas Pogge, Narmeen Haider and Zain Rizvi
- Health,
- Markets,
- Poverty
Putting users in the picture

By UNICEF

Supply Division
- Design,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Empowerment,
- Evaluation,
- Health,
- Local solutions,
- Partnerships
- ...
Policy, responsibility and equal opportunity in education

By Diane Ravitch

New York University
- Business,
- Education,
- Markets,
- Policy,
- Poverty
Re-thinking innovation to promote equal opportunity for all children 

By Judith Sutz

Universidad de la República
- Design,
- Policy,
- Poverty,
- Research,
- Scarcity,
- The Americas and Caribbean
- ...
A seeing-eye dog made of bits and bytes

By Luke Schuster, Kevin Chow and Nate Christenson

Young Inventors
- Design,
- Disabilities,
- East Asia and the Pacific,
- Trial and error,
- Young inventors
- ...
Video

Bringing brains together at BongoHive

By UNICEF

Office of Research - Innocenti
- Design,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Empowerment,
- Local solutions,
- Markets,
- Participation
- ...
What do refugee children need? Ask them!

By Anna Skeels

Humanitarian Technical Unit, Save the Children
- Child rights,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Evaluation,
- Participation,
- Play
- ...
Measuring child development across cultures

By Günther Fink and Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski
- Adaptability,
- Early childhood,
- Eastern and Southern Africa,
- Education
- ...
Video

The sounds of innovation and social change

By UNICEF

Chile
- Activate Talks,
- Empowerment,
- Participation,
- The Americas and Caribbean
- ...

Many voices, many stories

Listen up! Hearing clearly with help from the sun

Building a greener future

Empowering communities to tackle malnutrition

The power of disruptors

A tiny computer lets Syrian refugees learn

Inspired by my brother, I stood up to bullies everywhere

Innovation, child protection and the post-2015 agenda

Simple toys make learning science fun

A toy for every child

The nursery of the future

Learning at their fingertips

BRAIGO and my quest to make an advanced, affordable Braille printer

How U-report is helping to fight Ebola in Liberia

Designing for change

Innovating for a healthy future

Now we’re cooking!

Building robots – and confidence

A treasure of their own

Accessible e-books for equal opportunity

Pee is for power

Profits and progress: Cause-related marketing

It’s a boat. It’s a school. It’s a livelihood booster.

Building the antenna: Fanele’s story

Technology, teaching and learning

Mobile blogging gives people a voice

Good design is only the beginning

Access to justice for all the world’s children

Finding my passion for social innovation

Enhancing education through active learning

A mobile lens on children’s rights

Collaboration, the key to successful innovation

Pathways less traveled: From scarcity to solutions

Feeling the sounds of safer streets

Think green, go blue!

When ideas come to life

A glow-in-the-dark lifeline for informal settlements

Cash and cognitive development

Consider the Cellphone

Influencing markets to reduce vaccine prices

Text 878 for change

Ideas matter for equity in education

Making sense of the crowd

Saving children’s lives through mobile technology

Designing for impact

Social technologies to save children from disease

Technology diffusion and its impact on children

Making Makers: the need to spread creativity and hands-on learning

Lab and Village: Reimagining how science can serve children

Barefoot social workers reach vulnerable children in rural China

Innovation with and for children

Giving everyone a voice

Developing drugs as if children mattered

Putting users in the picture

Policy, responsibility and equal opportunity in education

Re-thinking innovation to promote equal opportunity for all children

A seeing-eye dog made of bits and bytes

Bringing brains together at BongoHive

What do refugee children need? Ask them!

Measuring child development across cultures

The sounds of innovation and social change

Re-thinking innovation to promote equal opportunity for all children 