Christopher Fabian

[1] Before joining UNICEF, Fabian taught in Lebanon and founded companies in Africa and the Middle East, including a web portal in Tanzania.

In its early days, the Office of Innovation developed open source tools for improving basic health and communication in low-infrastructure regions.

[3] The Office of Innovation has also used real-time SMS to help stop the spread of Ebola,[4] smartphones to register children after a disaster, and tablet-based games to teach kids in Sudan.

Examples include the UNICEF Drone Corridor in Malawi, in 2016,[11][12] and the "Magic Box" platform for working with large realtime datasets.

The Magic Box platform allows companies like IBM, Google, and Telefonica to pool data so it can be used to make realtime decisions in emergencies.

This Fund takes Ethereum or Bitcoin, holds it in its native form, and allows UNICEF to disperse it, as cryptocurrency, to open-source technology startups.

[20] In 2019, he also led the development of the Digital Public Goods Alliance [21] - a platform built with the Government of Norway, Sierra Leone's DSTI (Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation) run by Minister David Sengeh, and India's iSpirit to identify and support open source software for public good.

The film follows Sidra, a 12-year-old girl that has fled her home in Syria due to the ongoing crisis and found herself in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp.

Chris Fabian speaks about connectivity and data fairness and equity at the ITU's AI summit in Geneva.
Chris Fabian holds a lecture during the World Investment Forum 2018