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Expedia, UNESCO and the UN Foundation – providing the tools to protect world heritage
Expedia, Inc, UNESCO and the UN Foundation founded the Friends of World Heritage initiative to ensure the protection of World Heritage sites for today’s travelers and future generations. More
Vodafone and the UN Foundation – harnessing technology for humanitarian goals
Recognising the potential of technology to drive global change, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation partnered in 2005 to form the Technology Partnership, a five-year, $30 million commitment in support of UN causes. More
Expedia and UN Foundation partner to promote World Heritage tourism
Together with about 50 members from the travel industry, governments and conservation community the World Heritage Alliance for sustainable tourism is working to preserve more than 20 World Heritage sites in seven countries. More
World Economic Forum gives girls a voice on the global stage
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting programme featured its first-ever plenary session at which corporate, foundation, government and NGO leaders discussed the ability to end intergenerational cycles of poverty amongst females. More
DataDyne.org and Vodafone Foundation: health surveys with EpiSurveyor
Apart from regular reporting, surveys are an additional tool of national health monitoring. For conducting health surveys the non-profit software provider DataDyne.org developed EpiSurveyor, an open-source software application available to every internet user at no cost. More
Microsoft joined the “mHealth and Mobile Telemedicine” session, led by UNF and Vodafone ’s Technology Partnership
The “mHealth and Mobile Telemedicine” session is gathering 25 private sector and public health leaders to explore the challenges, opportunities and way forward in building mHealth systems that can improve the access, efficiency and quality of health services in the developing world. The overarching... More
UNDP and Coca-Cola work together to rehabilitate water and sanitation systems in tsunami-affected countries
The goal of this partnership was to support the long-term reconstruction effort with a focus on sustainable, community-based water and sanitation activities in remote, tsunami-affected areas of Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives. More
Public and private sectors search for common ground in the movement for children's rights
Leaders from business, government and civil society met to discuss better ways of involving their constituencies in the movement for children's rights. More
Public-private partnership investing in adolescent girls in developing countries
The first step to ending generations of poverty is investing in adolescent girls. That’s the premise behind the Coalition for Adolescent Girls (the Coalition), a public-private partnership established in 2006 with the UN Foundation, Nike Foundation and more than 30 leading international... More
Vodafone and the UNF assemble experts to tackle global health challenges
The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Group Foundation’s Technology Partnership (Technology Partnership) announced on July 28, 2008 the start of a conference session designed to harness the potential of mobile health (mHealth) to unlock access to health data and improve healthcare in the... More