An ambitious project to map schools on a global scale
A team embarks on an 8-week residency that results in something entirely new. Watch what happens when UNICEF Innovation engages with Red Hat® Open Innovation Labs.
Chapter 1
Innovate
The UNICEF team arrives in New York to kick off their Open Innovation Labs residency. This chapter highlights the team's excitement and anxieties: Early exercises interest some, worry others.
Chapter 2
Iterate
The team travels to Colombia to meet with project stakeholders. Feedback changes their direction, two projects become one, and Red Hat and UNICEF hit their stride working together.
Chapter 3
Impact
The team is back in New York to present the final proof of concept and recap the work they've done the last 8 weeks. We learn about the next steps for the project and how contributors can get involved.
Chapter 1
Innovate
Software shouldn't just be for the corporations to earn tons of money. It should basically be here to help everybody in the world.
Chapter 2
Iterate
The team is here in Bogotá, Colombia to meet with UNICEF Bogotá stakeholders as well as members of the Colombian government to understand more about their data usage and needs surrounding children, poverty, socioeconomic data, and risk factors.
Chapter 3
Impact
The idea is to get a kind of engine starting and running so that the open source community can just do it on their own.
An 8-week engagement
In February 2018, a team from UNICEF began an 8-week Red Hat Open Innovation Labs engagement. Below is a snapshot of their residency.
Week 1
Residency kick-off
Team arrives in New York City with intent to scale an idea
Week 3
Stakeholder meeting
Team travels to Bogotá and hears some big feedback from stakeholders
Week 5
More collaboration
Team works together to accommodate stakeholder feedback
Week 8
Team demo
Team presents their progress to colleagues
The power of open innovation
The breakthroughs made on the Magicbox - School Mapping project wouldn't have been possible without open source. UNICEF Innovation and Red Hat have started something big. What happens next is up to all of us.