‘Wearables for Good’ design
challenge launched today in collaboration with frog
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UNICEF and ARM have announced a multi-year partnership to
accelerate the development of new technologies to overcome the
barriers that prevent millions of families from accessing basic
health, education and support services. The partnership’s first
action is to collaborate with global product strategy and design
firm frog on a ‘Wearables for Good’ challenge to generate ideas for
new and innovative devices that tackle maternal and child health
needs in emerging economies.
The partnership will focus on enabling UNICEF to provide faster
and more comprehensive help to children coping with the effects of
mass urbanization and increased social and economic divides.
Together, UNICEF and ARM will use their influence to encourage the
tech sector to innovate for impact.
Initial deliverables in the multi-year partnership include:
- UNICEF and ARM have partnered with frog
to launch the ‘Wearables for Good’ design challenge. The challenge
asks: Could wearable and sensor technology be the next mobile
revolution? Running over six months, the challenge invites
developers, designers, community partners and problem-solvers to
design a wearable device that offers a cost-effective, efficient,
and sustainable solution to pressing maternal, newborn or child
health problems.
- ARM will work alongside UNICEF’s
network of Innovation Labs and country offices to identify and
scale up pilot projects that demonstrate the potential to be used
at a national level. Over the next year, UNICEF and ARM will
uncover the most impactful solutions being used or in trials across
the UNICEF network and invest to deliver them wherever they are
needed.
- Longer term, the UNICEF/ARM partnership
will conduct research to evaluate and promote market opportunities
in developing countries. With the findings, UNICEF and ARM will
outline the business case for investing in solutions for mobile
financial services, identity, transportation, learning and
wearable/sensor technology. The joint goal is to build momentum for
globally co-created and scalable technologies that attract
commercial investment.
“We need to innovate with social purpose in order to overcome
the barriers of time, distance and lack of information that prevent
millions of children from surviving and realizing their potential,”
said Erica Kochi, Co-lead, UNICEF Innovation. “By working together
with ARM we improve our ability to develop new technologies that
impact children and help them grow up healthy, educated and able to
positively contribute to their families, communities and wider
economies.”
“Technology should be used to create opportunity for all;
improving child health, education and prospects, and access to it
should not be governed by economic status or geography,” said Simon
Segars, CEO, ARM. “We have spent 25 years enabling life-changing
technologies and together with UNICEF’s innovation experts we
believe this partnership can deliver a positive social impact for
children all-around the world.”
Today’s partnership announcement has evolved from a growing
understanding between UNICEF and ARM that technology can have a
defining impact on children’s lives. With that shared view, UNICEF
and ARM aim to drive sector-wide change, creating an ecosystem of
technology companies that explore the potential social impact of
new technologies they develop.
See a short video interview with Simon Segars, ARM CEO and Erica
Kochi, Co-lead, UNICEF Innovation on ARMFlix.
‘Wearables for Good’ design challengeThe launch of the
‘Wearables for Good’ design challenge with frog signifies the
commencement of UNICEF and ARM’s partnership. The competition panel
will assess the entries on several levels including product and
service design that disrupts or improves the status quo,
sustainability of technology and potential impact at scale.
Entrants will be guided by the ‘Use Case Handbook’ created by
UNICEF and frog. The handbook outlines the challenges that need to
be addressed, as well as considerations, context and principles for
good design.
Two winners will be selected at the end of the design challenge.
Each winner will receive $15,000 funding alongside incubation and
mentorship support from ARM and frog.
“Today, wearable technologies are primarily focused on
applications such as fitness and the quantified self,” said Denise
Gershbein, Executive Creative Director at frog. “However, there are
countless opportunities for wearable and sensor technology to make
more of an impact in emerging markets, particularly in the next
wave of social impact development. With the ‘Wearables for Good’
challenge we hope to foster dialogue among new partners and
increase cross-discipline innovation.”
The ‘Wearables for Good’ design challenge goes live today, May
19, 2015, and entry details can be found at
http://wearablesforgood.com.
Notes to Editors
UNICEF and ARM each have a history of developing
technology-based solutions that improve social good, including:
- Literacy Bridge, which is jointly
supported by UNICEF and ARM, is a portable listening device being
used in Ghana used to relay health, agricultural and education
information. The Talking Book is being trialled by 40,000 people in
the first mass trials
- ARM provides support to SimPrints, a
portable biometric reader that compares a person’s fingerprints to
a database containing medical records. It is being tested in
Bangladesh and more than 1,000 people are now registered on the
system
- UNICEF’s U-Report is a mobile phone,
text-based service designed to give young people a chance to voice
their opinions on important issues. To date U-Report is live in 14
countries and reaches 700,000 young people, with plans to scale to
20 countries, reaching 1 million by the end of 2015
- UNICEF’s EduTrac is a data collection
system that uses basic mobile phones to support and strengthen
education systems by enabling front-line education workers to
report on indicators and get critical information, such as the
location of supplies, in real-time. In Uganda, Afghanistan and
Zimbabwe, educators are using EduTrac to report on indicators, such
as absenteeism, cases of violence against children, curriculum
progress and supervision visits.
About ARMARM is at the heart of the world's most advanced
digital products. Our technology enables the creation of new
markets and transformation of industries and society. We design
scalable, energy-efficient processors and related technologies to
deliver the intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to
servers, including smartphones, tablets, enterprise infrastructure
and the Internet of Things. Our innovative technology is licensed
by ARM Partners who have shipped more than 60 billion System on
Chip (SoCs) containing our intellectual property since the company
began in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are
breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and
engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading
electronics companies. Learn more and join the conversation at
http://community.arm.com.
About UNICEFUNICEF promotes the rights and well-being of
every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we
work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment
into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most
vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children,
everywhere. For more information about UNICEF visit:
www.unicef.org. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
UNICEF Innovation is an interdisciplinary team of individuals
around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling
technologies and practices that strengthen UNICEF’s work. We build
and scale innovations that improve children’s lives around the
world. For more information about UNICEF’s work in innovation,
visit: www.unicef.org/innovation and www.unicefstories.org. Follow
us on Twitter.
ABOUT frogfrog is a global product strategy and design
firm. Our work solves problems, anticipates the future and advances
the human experience. We are more than 600 strategists,
researchers, designers, and technologists who consult and partner
with clients across industries. Headquartered in San Francisco, we
have offices in Amsterdam, Austin, Boston, London, Milan, Munich,
New York, Seattle, Shanghai and
Singapore. www.frogdesign.com.
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