Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are proud to announce the creation of the UNICEF EdTech Award as a special award in the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 competition.
The purpose is to identify and showcase bold entrepreneurs demonstrating the greatest potential to become “Blue Unicorns” – ventures that impact at least 100 million children’s learning experiences.
This award is part of a wider strategic partnership to empower tech entrepreneurs driving transformative education innovations to help build the future of learning for every child worldwide, and will be presented during the XTC 2022 Global Finals in June 2022.
These technologies should and can set the pace of an equitable digital revolution, and this will be key to achieving the education-related United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
With the support of the Government of Finland and other partners, UNICEF recently established a hub for learning innovations in Helsinki. The partnership with XTC is a key alignment of that hub with XTC’s powerful tech-for-good ecosystem.
Types of Challenges
Through UNICEF EdTech Award, they are seeking to identify and showcase bold entrepreneurs who show greatest potential to become Blue Unicorns, ventures that impact 100 million children and bring innovative approaches to the following challenges:
- Supporting parents and caregivers to prepare children for school
- Innovating for basic literacy and numeracy skills
- Preparing learners for the future of work
- Ensuring ALL learners can access quality online learning
- Enabling children with disabilities to access education
Additional Details on TECH-FOR-GOOD Scoring for UNICEF Award
- The degree and reach of impact on children and young people
- How do you measure the startup’s impact on children’s lives?
- Will this startup improve the lives of a large number of children?
- And/or will this startup make a deep and meaningful impact on children?
- Additonal
- Will this startup have a wide-reaching impact on children and young people?
- Will this innovative product or service scale commercially to make a material impact on the world to improve the learning experience and environment of children and young people?
UNICEF Child Protection Criteria
Compliance is mandatory to be considered.
- Data collection: User consent explicitly requested for collecting data.
- Data sharing: Solution does not share personally identifiable information to third parties without explicit user consent.
- Data privacy and protection terms: Data privacy and protection terms and conditions are available online.
- Data marketing: Children’s data collected by the solution is not used for marketing by first, second or third parties.
- Guest login: Guest login available to reach beyond a paywall or premium restricted access.
For more information, visit https://www.unicef.org/innovation/press-releases/unicef-and-extreme-tech-challenge-announce-strategic-partnership-advance-future