Kolba Lab — Armenia's Government-Embedded Crowdsourced Innovation Lab
UNDP/UNICEF's Kolba Lab, the first innovation lab embedded in a UNDP country office, has run 7+ crowdsourced idea competitions since 2011: 700 …
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UNDP/UNICEF's Kolba Lab, the first innovation lab embedded in a UNDP country office, has run 7+ crowdsourced idea competitions since 2011: 700 …
Nairobi's first major open tech innovation space, founded in 2010 with Omidyar Network and Hivos backing, catalysing Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' developer and …
Freetown City Council piloted a smartphone-verified, micropayment-incentivised tree-planting model that has geotagged and tracked over 950,000 trees, won a $1M Bloomberg Global …
D.Net's InfoLady (Kallyani) model trains rural Bangladeshi women as bicycle-riding info-entrepreneurs who deliver ICT-enabled health, agriculture, finance and government-service information door-to-door. 464 …
In Peru's Madre de Dios region, women now hold 30% of formalized mining concessions — the country's highest share — with women-led …
In 2017 Liechtenstein moved gender-equality oversight from a government office to the independent NGO VMR, which now monitors CEDAW compliance and convenes …
BPW Estonia, a non-profit organization, was founded on 11th November in 1992 to develop the professional, business, and leadership potential of women …
US nonprofit giving underserved young adults and military veterans/spouses free IT training plus job placement. Operating since 1999, it has trained 12,000+ …
TransEmpregos is Brazil's oldest free job-matching platform for transgender people, linking CVs to employers like Carrefour, IBM and Atento. Since 2013 it …
For 27 years, DC nonprofit Byte Back ran free bilingual digital-literacy classes; a RAND pilot of its Computer Foundations 1 course found …
A Google.org-funded, Asia Foundation-led programme trained underemployed youth, indigenous-community members and persons with disabilities in digital and e-commerce skills across Brunei's four …
Since 2022, North Macedonia's Institute of Communication Studies has partnered with the Pensioners' Union, funded by the British Embassy, to train 500+ …
Since 2023, UNFPA and the Red Cross of Serbia have trained over 600 older adults in six municipalities in email, e-government, e-banking …
Norway's No Isolation makes the AV1 telepresence robot, letting children with cancer and other long-term illnesses attend class remotely as their 'eyes, …
The World Bank, Peru's DRELM, Anthropic and Microsoft launched an AI maths tutor and career-guidance coach across 110 Lima public schools (6,600 …
UNICEF and Uzbekistan's Ministry of Preschool and School Education piloted Eduten, an AI-adaptive maths platform, with 527 Grade 5 students in 17 …
A free offline app using AI voice recognition, text-to-speech and image recognition teaches Somali literacy in roughly 50 hours instead of 450–500. …
War Child Holland's tablet-based Can't Wait to Learn uses a Stanford-co-developed ML layer to detect when a child is academically "stuck" and …
GPE KIX's STEPS project used AI, reviewed by experts, to draft and translate 28 science textbooks for Benin, Cameroon and DR Congo. …
A WEI Forward-led hackathon network has trained over a thousand Caribbean girls aged 13–21 in coding, AI, animation and pitching across Jamaica, …
A three-NGO consortium trains and mentors microentrepreneurs with disabilities, backed by an in-kind growth-kit and procurement links. 2,467 reached (84% disabled), self-reported …
A truck-mounted digital X-ray unit using Delft Imaging's CAD4TB AI software screened 43% of Daru Island's population for tuberculosis, finding 69 confirmed …
A UNICEF-backed pilot of Finland's AI-powered Eduten maths platform in 32 Bhutanese schools found Grade 5 pupils gained 11.2pp in numeracy and …
Colombia, one of UNICEF's original Latin American pilot countries for Accessible Digital Textbooks, adapted its first three children's titles with 12 partner …
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