The Design Center combines promising methods with emerging information and communication technologies to enhance UNICEF’s service to vulnerable children and youth. DC explores challenges and opportunities related to service delivery and the use of information, and leverages advances in mobile, open source, and social technologies to prototype solutions.
The accessibility of new and disruptive technologies—from mobile phones to “big data”—present unprecedented opportunities to better our service to children and youth. Developing and employing these technologies—or even piggybacking on or repurposing their commercial application—means we can analyze and understand the dynamics of need and service provision in ways never previously possible: we can uncover pockets of vulnerability, understand need in real time, and radically increase transparency and accountability.