Discover the impactful strides the Geneva Innovation Movement Association made in 2024. This year’s report highlights our key achievements, brought to life through inspiring stories and reflections.

For 40 years, FUNDES has been a game-changer for micro and small enterprises (MSMEs), the backbone of Latin America’s economy. Constantly evolving, the organization provides vital support to help businesses thrive in an ever-changing market. Discover how FUNDES continues to fuel economic development and innovation across the region.

Follow the discussion with UNICEF’s Chris Fabian, co-founder of Giga, to explore how technology, governance and ecosystems converge to tackle the global challenge of digital connectivity. Discover how Giga leverages technology like AI, blockchain and satellite imagery to map schools and connect communities to bridge the digital divide. Chris shares practical lessons on navigating governance within the UN system, building collaborative ecosystems and scaling solutions globally while addressing challenges of agility and sustainability.

Discussion on how technology enables new maverick organization designs for tackling the grand challenges. Organizations with maverick designs are disrupting the status quo, but the longevity of these types of designs is often limited. This is problematic when organizations aim to address grand challenges, as these require the long-term vision and continuous collaboration of an evolving ecosystem of stakeholders to work together creating a meta-organization. The article draws multiple learnings from the case of Giga, a maverick organization design formed out of two United Nations organizations.

A provocative debate hosted by the Geneva Innovation Movement, the University of Geneva’s Center for Innovation & Partnerships, and Giga. As digital transformation accelerates, how should Geneva position itself for the future? Should this global hub for policy development pivot to focus on technical skills like coding and data science to stay competitive? Or should it strengthen its emphasis on digital ethics and regulation, leveraging its established global influence?

Discover how AI is transforming education and how you can support your child's learning journey. Learn about personalised learning, screen time management, and digital safety with practical tips for parents. Available as podcast and e-book.

Hybrid organizing offers new ways to address grand challenges by balancing profit and sustainability. However, current research on hybridity focuses mainly on individual organizations, while grand challenges involve complex networks of interconnected yet independent actors. This paper introduces a new perspective on hybridity showing how single organizations engage others to enable collective solutions.

This 10' podcast, created by our Managing Director Katherine Tatarinov with the help of NotebookLM, summarised the discussions and findings of the Geneva Innovation Movement's round-table working event "AI in the Non-Profit Sector", which took place in April 2024 and was organized in collaboration with the Center for Innovation & Partnerships at the University of Geneva, WWF Switzerland and the Innovation for Impact Network.

In June 2023, Chris Fabian, a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Giga (UNICEF) and his colead from the ITU, Alex Wong, announced a new strategic move to establish the organisation’s managerial headquarters in Geneva and locate its tech headquarters in Barcelona, a major development for the joint initiative between the two UN agencies. Within the next three months Chris and Alex had to develop a strategy to integrate the two headquarters, reconcile the maverick structure with the UN’s bureaucratic procedures, and leverage the ecosystem in Geneva for optimal global and local impact. They needed to show that a start-up born out of the UN really could change the world.