Abstract:
Technology for development and digital innovation – and the practice of exploring new ways of delivering programmes
with new partners and technologies – is increasingly recognized as crucial to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) and the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
At UNICEF, the Technology for Development (T4D) function within the Information and Communication Technology
Division (ICTD) provides advisory, implementation and quality assurance services to programmes on technology and
digital innovation in UNICEF, and leadership on digital innovation. It helps to identify the most promising technologies
and digital innovations for application in different contexts, supporting UNICEF programmes to adopt, adapt and scale
up the approaches that are most useful, and to quickly identify those that are not. It also helps to institutionalize those
technologies and digital innovations that show promise and are ready to be mainstreamed, in close collaboration with
national partners, and in support of national goals and sectoral priorities, the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2018–2021 and the
SDGs.
