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    About us

    The Arab Innovation Platform (AIP) aims to foster innovative, community-sourced solutions to the critical issues and modern challenges that the Arab region is facing. The platform facilitates innovation and collaboration between United Nations entities, Arab governments, and innovators to develop digital solutions to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-related challenges.

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    What is Social Innovation?

    Social innovation involves developing and implementing new and effective solutions for social issues with large-scale, long-term impacts. It can take the form of a variety of practices that tackle societal problems by providing fresh perspectives on the role of society in fostering innovative solutions.

     

    Why Restore Hope through Social Innovation?

    Being a social innovator involves providing new services and products. The concept is built on the notion of cultivating change in the beliefs and relationships that structure the world. Incorporating an innovative social mindset in the Arab region will make it possible to achieve radical changes in the region and restore hope to its communities. Many people in the Arab region have experienced or are currently undergoing hardships, injustice, war, and famine. Amid continuing crises, many have lost hope in the possibility of a better quality of life. Hope is key to reaching towards a better future and can provide the fabric for more cohesive and supportive societies. 

    Through promoting socially innovative solutions, we aim to restore hope to those who have lost it. By inviting ideas and solutions based on new approaches to the challenges we face, we are involving communities in the development of the most effective, inclusive, and environmentally friendly solutions to the Arab region’s challenges.

    Who owns the ideas and solutions posted on the AIP?

    The creators who submit ideas or the lawful owners of the concept will remain the owners. However, all submissions must be covered by recognized open-source and creative commons licenses or available to use through fair use. This means that other people and organizations such as the United Nations and Member States will be able to use the ideas received. The objective of the AIP is to encourage the creation of digital public goods which can help to create a more equitable world. To learn more, visit the Digital Public Goods Alliance.


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