Technology for development report : accelerating results for children with technology and digital innovation

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.