Stuart Campo's (@stucampo) presentation for Conf.Malagasy.i-Hub 11/24/2011

1. Innovating for Children – A Vision
for Madagascar
Stuart Campo, UNICEF Madagascar
Conf.Malagasy.I-HUB
24 November 2011

2. Overview
• “Innovation” as “Creative Destruction”
• UNICEF Innovation
• Case Studies from UNICEF Innovation
• Kosovo Innovations Lab – A Model for Success

3. What is Innovation?

4. “Innovation”
• Latin “innovatus”: “to renew or change”
• Economist Joseph Shumpeter (1934): “carrying out of
new combinations”:
– The introduction of a new product
– The introduction of a new process (method of production)
– The opening of a new market
– The opening of a new source of supply
– The carrying out of a new organization of any industry, like
the creation or breach of a monopoly position.
• Innovation is characterized by “Creative Destruction”

5. Organization
Product
Process
Innovation
Market
Source

6. • Mission: “Combining low-tech hardware with sophisticated open-source
software, we explore novel ways to both empower young people and
improve UNICEF's operations. We seek to connect youth who have access to
information on the Internet to those who do not, through innovations in
technology and program initiatives that are educational and inclusive. We
also find ways to integrate appropriate technological systems into existing
UNICEF working practices to augment and improve the effectiveness of our
operations”
• Key Questions:
– "How to connect youth who are connected to those who are not?"
– "How can the explosion of mobile phone users and networks change they
way development work is done?"
– "How can UNICEF use the power of ever growing social networks of youth
to educate, inform and empower?”
www.unicefinnovation.org

7. Current Vision
• Our aim is to meet the unaddressed needs of children and their
families in resource-limited settings and to deliver the right services,
products and systems at the right price for the children and their
families who need them most.
• New ideas are important to UNICEF’s work and we aim to engage and
partner with the right organisations and individuals from the public,
private and academic sectors to supports us to co-create solutions
through the delivery of user-driven innovations.
• Our global network of innovation centres works to stimulate and
facilitate the adoption of innovative approaches throughout UNICEF.
www.unicefinnovation.org

8. www.unicefinnovation.org

9. Case Study: Uganda
uReport—Social Monitoring
and the Wisdom of the Crowd
• Who: UNICEF, Scouts, Telecoms
• What: SMS polling through network of social monitors
trained and growing virally at grassroots level
• How: uReport leaders trained, mobilized; regular polls;
processing & publishing of data (see next slide)
• Innovation: Process, market, source of production

11. Case Study: Malawi
INFSSS—Integrated Nutrition
and Food Security Surveillance System
• Who: UNICEF, Zain, the Min. of Health
of Malawi, NGO partners, and Health Surveillance Asst.
• What: Early warning system for nutrition security
• How: Two-way information flow via SMS through centralized
RapidSMS server (see next slide)
• Innovation: Product, process, new organization

13. Case Study: Madagascar
Child- & Eco-Friendly
School Construction
• Who: UNICEF, Min. of Education, CISCOs, Communities
• What: Schools constructed with ICEB made on-site and
managed by communities. Eco-friendly outfitting.
• How: UNICEF and partners train communities to
manage all phases of fabrication and construction.
Local materials identified for minimal cost and impact.
• Innovation: Product, process, source of production

15. UNICEF Innovations
Lab, Kosovo
www.kosovoinnovations.org

17. By Youth for Youth
At the Innovations Lab, By Youth For Youth
Projects support Kosovo youth turn their
innovative and impactful ideas into reality. The
Lab will help youth transform ideas into
actionable projects and implement them. For
approved projects, we provide a small amount
of funding; mentors help manage and
implement projects; necessary equipment and
office space for co-working is provided;
connections to Kosovo institutions and to a
community of young change-makers are
supported!
www.kosovoinnovations.org

18. Design Center
The Innovations Lab Design Center designs and
implements projects to serve data and
information needs of UNICEF Kosovo, Kosovo’s
institutions, and Kosovo’s youth and children.
The Design Center leverages the recent
advances in mobile, open source, and social
technologies….We work with user-centered
methodologies to develop solutions that focus
on the needs and frustrations of the users, and
work on problems identified directly by
institutions working on behalf of youth and
children in Kosovo.
www.kosovoinnovations.org

19. Creative
Destruction
and Positive
Change
Innovation
and Risk
Taking
Madagascar
Innovations Lab
Children and
Youth –
Improved
Wellbeing, a
Future they
Want

20. Contact Details:
Stuart Campo
Innovative Programming Specialist
UNICEF Madagascar
scampo@unicef.org
+261331541144