What does inclusive STEAM education actually look like? 🔎 🎮 In Cambodia, @UNICEF’s #GameChangersCoalition is helping adolescent girls build real-world skills through video game development. Adolescent girls are gaining hands-on experience in coding, design, storytelling, and financial literacy, while solving real problems in their communities. At a recent National Game Jam, more than 600 students (65% girls) presented original games after six weeks of learning, many seeing themselves in tech for the first time. 🎉 Today, we celebrate the girls learning, creating, and shaping their futures in STEAM. Learn more 👉 unicef.org/innovation/press-… #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience @UNICEFCambodia, @bitget, #GVGC, @theESA, @videogames_EU, @MicronTech

What if video games weren’t just played by young people… but built by them? 🎮 In this @FastCompany article, @Thomas_unicef makes the case for a future where adolescents are equipped to move from digital consumption to digital creation, and why that shift matters now. 💡 Through the @UNICEF Game Changers Coalition, game design becomes a gateway to STEAM skills, confidence, and participation, especially for girls too often locked out of tech and gaming spaces. This isn’t play for play’s sake. It’s about building skills, closing gaps, and expanding who gets to shape the digital world. 🙌🏽 Worth your read 👉🏼 fastcompany.com/91469535/how…

For over a decade, we have pioneered, demonstrated, learned and pivoted on how we venture to ensure technology and innovation can be: 🔵 Inclusive 🔵 Equitable 🔵 Open 🔵 Profitable We are a strong advocate of open-source frontier tech solutions from emerging economies that improve outcomes for children and their communities not only locally, but globally. 🌏 With the support of our visionary partners, we’ve built a strong track record of bold and successful investments in markets often overlooked. This portfolio is proof that investing in local talent, with diverse founders and sustainable solutions, creates both social impact and financial returns. Read more 👉🏾 unicef.link/Venture @SweMFA, @Ulkoministerio, @DanishMFA, @Sida, @ethereumfndn, Temasek Foundation, @foundation_gsr, @TakedaPharma, @Arm, and @noradno. #venturecapital #emergingmarkets #opensource #impactinvesting

In today's world, it's more important than ever for young people to get real-world skills that will ease their transition from learning to earning. This #YouthSkillsDay, we are proud to announce the launch of FunDoo, UNICEF's digital skills coach for young people, in Italy where it has been adapted to support young migrants and refugees with work readiness and interpersonal skills. 🚀 FunDoo is an interactive coach available in 20 languages and used by young people across 17 countries. What makes FunDoo successful? It offers accessible, scalable, low-cost, and inclusive functionality through its multi-platform and low-bandwidth design. Read more 👉🏼 unicef.org/eca/stories/unice… @UNICEF_Italia @UNICEF_ECA

To bridge the global digital divide, international collaboration through Digital Public Goods (DPGs) is crucial. These open-source tools, data, and standards enable equitable access and strengthen cooperation for children. 🧒🏽 Yesterday @Thomas_unicef, Director of @UNICEFinnovate, and Liv Marte Nordhaug, the CEO of @DPGAlliance co-moderated the @intgovforum's high-level session, “Digital Public Goods and Global Digital Cooperation,” which highlighted examples and best practices of implementing the DPGs. The session underscored the importance of continued international digital cooperation to ensure no country is left behind, especially in the face of large-scale cuts to international development assistance. It also showcased how DPGs help address urgent development needs including financial inclusion of women and climate change mitigation. 🌍 Alongside key partners @noradno and as founding members of the Digital Public Goods Alliance, we believe DPGs are essential for building digital trust and shaping an equitable and secure digital future. #IGF2025 #DigitalPublicGoods #DPI Photos by Helge Øgård Meisal.

🎉 Leading cryptocurrency exchange @bitgetglobal joins @UNICEF #GameChangersCoalition to advance digital skills and blockchain literacy among adolescent girls. Every year, adolescent girls and young women in low and middle-income countries miss out on USD 15 billion in economic opportunities due to a gap in internet access and digital skills relative to their male peers. Through the partnership between Bitget and UNICEF Luxembourg, Bitget Academy, the educational arm of Bitget, will help UNICEF’s Game Changers Coalition develop its first interactive, online and in-person blockchain training module based on video games creation skills development for teachers and young people. “We are enthusiastic to have Bitget join the UNICEF #GameChangersCoalition in our mission to reach 1.1 million girls by 2027, with learning and skills-building opportunities”, said @Thomas_unicef, Global Director, UNICEF Office of Innovation. “At a critical time when global education faces increasing challenges, Bitget and UNICEF will work together to harness the transformative potential of blockchain to create a scalable model that equips young women with the tools to navigate and shape the digital economy of tomorrow.” “Emerging technologies should not be reserved for the privileged few—they must be introduced early and equitably. Blockchain, with its real-world use case and potential for social good, is one of the most powerful tools we can give to our younger generation to build products that change the way we look at modern society”, said @GracyBitget, CEO at @bitgetglobal . As part of the #GameChangersCoalition, Bitget joins the Global Video Game Coalition, Micron Foundation and ecosystem builders - Women in Games in a shared ambition to reach 1.1 million girls by 2027, with learning and skills-building opportunities. 💙 Find out more 👉🏿 unicef.link/4e8lbus #GameChangersCoalition #Innovation #ForEveryGirl #GenderEquality #GenerationEquality #TechforEquality #Blockchain4Her

A world where the internet is open, secure and beneficial for all children and young people is a reality that must be shaped and preserved for this and coming generations. One key moment to rally efforts around this vision is the @intgovforum #IGF2025, hosted by the government of Norway. @UNICEFinnovate will join global stakeholders in strategic deliberations on: 🔵 Building a Child-Rights Respecting and Inclusive Digital Future with @sunitagrote, Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, and @Josianne_Galea. 📅 24 June 9:15 to 10:45 🕘 (Open Forum) 🔵 Digital Public Goods and Global Digital Cooperation with @Thomas_unicef. 📅 24 June 13:30 to 15:00 🕐 (High Level Session) 🔵 The Relevance of Digital Public Goods for Advancing Regional Approaches with the @DPGAlliance and Chris Szymczak. 📅 25 June 9:00 to 10:15 🕘 (Workshop) 🔵 Securing Child Safety in the Age of Algorithms with Thomas Davin. 📅 26 June 9:30-11:00 🕘 (High Level Session) Will you be at IGF? If so do join us at any of these sessions. UNICEF believes that open source means digital equity, especially for those in emerging economies. And we’re delighted to work alongside our partners @noradno and @Sida to help propel the digital future for young people and children, especially as we advance the #GlobalDigitalCompact. 🧒🏾 #opensource #DigitalPublicGoods #IGF

The demand for climate finance is vast, yet current funding flows fall drastically short for many underinvested entrepreneurs who are driving innovative change. That’s why we’re excited to showcase tonight at our annual Innovation Insights Dialogue networking event, 4 climate entrepreneurs who are illustrative of the global pipeline of talent and investment ready solutions: 🔵 Achim Haug, Founder and CEO, @airgradienthq. 🔵 Beren Kayali, Co-Founder, Deploy. 🔵 @KyleECordova1, Founder, AquaPoro. 🔵 Mohamed M. Khaled, Co-Founder, NoorNation. By having our UNICEF division headquartered in Stockholm, @UNICEFinnovate has the unique privilege of convening these 4 founders alongside key actors in the Swedish and global climate ecosystem- including key partner @SweMFA. By bringing together government representatives, social impact organizations and climate finance leaders to share and learn, together we can truly unlock climate innovation at scale. Kicking off the two-day event focused on unlocking innovative climate financing, @sigriddiana, State Secretary to Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, at Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, in her opening remarks highlighted innovation and entrepreneurship as a key part of taking climate action. She noted that climate smart solutions are about driving sustainable economic development, job creation and poverty reduction in communities most affected by the climate crisis and that we need to spend more time talking about the impact of what is working. These “four heroes” … communicate good stories that cut through the clutter.