Oky, the world’s first period app co-created with and for girls by UNICEF, has landed in Tanzania! Oky first began in Indonesia and Mongolia in response to the need for a trustworthy digital menstrual tracking application, and first scaled beyond Asia to Kenya. In...
Duke and UNICEF—who partnered in May 2019 to form the Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator—have announced the Accelerator’s third cohort of six social enterprises. Building on UNICEF’s 70-year history of innovating for children and Duke’s track record of success in...
Social Innovation—a popular course taught by Matt Nash, Managing Director for Social Entrepreneurship at Duke I&E—was where Ruthie Kesri ’24 learned one of the most valuable lessons for any Duke student. “I’m really, really scared of failure, and one of the things...
For many entrepreneurs who are now changing the world for the better, entrepreneurship was never the goal. In a popular session of the 2021 Duke-UNICEF Virtual Forum on Social Innovation, participants tuned in to hear four successful social entrepreneurs share how...
In the second annual Duke-UNICEF Virtual Forum on Social Innovation, representatives from academia, INGOs, business, and social enterprise gathered to deepen the conversation around the sustainable development goals and social innovation. This year’s focus was on...
