Chapter 15. Using Mobile Technology to Unite (for) Children
Christopher Fabian and Erica Kochi
UNICEF U.S.
This chapter explores ways in which innovation in the development context can promote the rights of young people and engage them in their future. We look at several use cases from three perspectives: content, technology, and partnerships. This chapter highlights the Connecting Classrooms content and community, work done on the Bee and Digital Doorway as new technology for development, and the newly formed Open Mobile Consortium as a partnership vehicle for change. It is hoped that the reader finds value in both the summaries of various projects and the concrete lessons learned by UNICEF and its partners in the last two years of discourse around ...

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