We are experiencing rapidly evolving challenges: the refugee crisis, a sluggish global economy and natural disasters making us vulnerable to a crisis - both natural and induced by human activities.
We want to help address issues of humanity at UXDX and take a step further in supporting initiatives that are helping the world fight the struggles we’re currently dealing with.
Meet Shruti KNR who Integrates Technology and UX in Solutions Improving Children’s Lives Around the Globe
Last year’s UXDX showcased Frontend.com’s design solutions to some of the healthcare challenges facing migrants, refugees and other displaced people around the world. This year, Shruti KNR, UX Specialist from UNICEF, New York will be joining us in Dublin to demonstrate how tech ties with UX and how design can do more to help address problems around the world.
Using Real-Time Data and UX for Better Crisis Preparedness
Real-time data and UX analysis when delivered immediately after collection, can capture many different actions of human behavior, mobility, and environmental patterns.
Whilst private businesses are continually trying to integrate the capabilities that real-time data analytics can offer in their everyday operations, the public sector is using it to address real world issues.
UNICEF Office of Innovation integrates data science initiatives - addressing world issues such as understanding how an epidemic such as Ebola or Zika virus spread.
According to Shruti KNR
“Managing emergency crisis or disaster should be more than just cultivating empathy. At UNICEF, we are exploring how real-time data can enhance the existing efforts around preparedness, response, and recovery to tackle emergencies.
UNICEF Office of Innovation is building an open-source platform, called Magic Box, which uses real-time information layered with existing public data to inform humanitarian responses in emergency situations.
New data collaboratives, like the Magic Box, give UNICEF the capacity to link the needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations with a rapidly expanding set of technology and data-driven solutions and partners. Connecting aggregate data sources from private sector partners is not easy - so the more collaborators are involved in the project, the faster they can look at data in new ways.
Apart from companies such as Google, Amadeus, IBM and Telefónica joining forces with UNICEF’s innovation projects; UNICEF is also believe the great power of startups to accelerate their efforts and results through the Innovation Fund
“There is a great possibility someone is coming up with or already has a completely game-changing solution for the toughest challenges we are already dealing with and we would like to support that through UNICEF’s Innovation Fund,”
says Shruti KNR, UX Specialist at UNICEF.
Join Shruti at UXDX 2017, October 5th to learn more about advantages of their collaborations and find out how they’re driving positive change through UX at UNICEF.
