🔴LIVE: #HackCovy - people-powered #innovation in addressing #COVID19 "We are excited to see how far the teams have come in developing their products & business models during the 12-week Hackcelerator Program" UNDP DRR Sitara Syed . ▶️watch team pitch: facebook.com/watch/?v=61344…

Great kick-off launch of 3-month incubation #EPPIChallenge. Over 159 submissions and 15 finalists introduced their initiatives and plan to #BeatPlasticPollution in Ha Long Bay and Koh Samui. plasticchallenge.undp.org.vn

159 innovators frm ASEAN countries applied to #EPPIChallenge w/ great solutions. 15 of them were selected as finalists & will pitch their innovations during Final Competition Jan 2021. Stay tuned to discover who they are & how they intend to #BeatPlasticPollution Viet Nam Government Portal

#UNDP Resident Representative Caitlin Wiesen and #Vietnam Vice Minister of Investment & Planning Tran Duy Dong discuss cooperation in #innovation. UNDP will support the National Innovation Center in building innovation #ecosystems in small & medium enterprises giulio quaggiotto Courtney Savie Lawrence

🎉UNDP in Viet Nam is back w IMPACT VILLAGE - #TECHFEST2020! 👏Kudos to Youth Co:Lab & #EPPICChallenge's finalists w amazing exhibition showcasing how #innovative start-ups & technology can create positive impacts on the environment & community! Caitlin Wiesen UNDP in Asia and the Pacific SDG2030 #SDG

🙌That's a wrap for #BusinessInnovation toward the great reset: a focus on #plastic workshop at #TechFest2020. Congrats 2 Impactaim 🇻🇳 for a fantastic mapping #impactstartup #ecosystem & #inspirationalsharing from leading experts on how to balance btw #benefit & #socialimpact

What is the role of the National Innovation Centre 🇻🇳 in the ecosystem? Architect and Leader ranked highest! @binnyprabhakar giulio quaggiotto

Part 2 of the National Innovation Centre learning track on #innovation #ecosystems! Interesting discussion about the types of SMEs innovation NIC wants to support and the expertise and industry knowledge they currently have.

.UNDP in Viet Nam #acclab Lan Phan shares how they use #collectiveintelligence to better understand the informal waste ecosystem. They used ethnographic, geospatial & socioeconomic data as well as interviewing 40 informal waste workers. More info here: bit.ly/acclabinformal…

Connecting the bees and the trees yesterday at our 7th National Innovation Centre learning session with Geoff Mulgan @binnyprabhakar Deepthi Ravula discussing innovation ecosystems, social innovation and women entrepreneurship for NIC’s strategy! #inclusiveinnovation giulio quaggiotto

Amazed by the creativity and resilience of MSMEs in Hue as we uncover some of the systemic challenges MSMEs face in innovation and business development! Many solutions mapped together with businesses, associations and the local government. Laying grounds for further experiments!

Congratulations to TOP 18 #EPPIChallenge winners in #Indonesia & #Philippines, from 139 Gr8💡solutions fr 7 #ASEAN states! Finalists start 3-month incubation prog to scale #innovations to #BeatPlasticPollution. Gr8 thanks to Norad Norway MFA partnership bit.ly/3qBRKZ8

👏 Kudos to #ImpactAIM 🇻🇳 for great achievements so far! 💡#ImpactStartup #Ecosystem Map 2021, Impact #Measurement & #Management #Bootcamp, and more! 🙏 Special thanks to all participants for fruitful discussion on #SocialInnovation Businesses 👉 Watch fb.watch/6FeMy0jldE/

Our UNDP Accelerator Labs have been introducing the role of explorer in #globaldev at UN Development Check out what we are experiencing & where we are heading from UNDP Malaysia Head of Exploration Benjamin Ong acclabs.medium.com/explorers-asse…

⬇️gr8 blog by Morgane Rivoal Alex Oprunenco Lan Phan 4⃣lessons learned from running an #innovation competition to accelerate the transition towards a #CircularEconomy of #plastics in ASEAN giulio quaggiotto Norad Norway MFA Grete Løchen UNDP Thailand undp-ric.medium.com/not-another-ch…

LIVE NOW ON #TECHFEST: #startups contribute to the prevention and cure of COVID-19, #recovery after the damaging impact, hosted by Impact Village, led by UNDP in Viet Nam 🎯 fb.me/e/28XzoUIGg

Honored to speak @ #TechFest2021 & share w/🇻🇳PM Chinh top #EPPIC start-up #GreenJoy grass straws replacing 60 million SingleUse plastics & bags that biodegrade in 5 months. #Innovative solutions ecosystem needed now more than ever for sustainable recovery w/ people @ the center

We co-created with Hue's government officials in a Hackathon to redesign the public administration portal in 3 days. We tested with the help of Hue's Blind association and found that designing for #inclusion 👨‍🦯 improves #accessibility 🤟 for all!