Commentary
A clear direction, a renewed identity
How can Fondation Botnar contribute to lasting change in young people’s lives?
Fit4Future
Initiative
Fit4Future explores how innovation can improve young people’s lives.
Launched in 2020, Fit4Future explores how data and digital technologies can create new opportunities for and with young people. In its first phase, 14 projects tested approaches across health, education and urban development engaging more than 150,000 young people. Building on this experience, the current phase supports selected projects to deepen their work and share learning on how digital tools can strengthen young people’s participation, skills and opportunities.
- Partner
- AIP Foundation, BASAbali, DreamOval, Fundación Corona, PATH, Active Learning Solutions
- Working in
- Ghana, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Colombia
- Approach
- Youth participation, digital innovation and shared learning
- Focus
- Digital innovation across health, education and urban development
- Programme launched
- 2020
Challenge
Technology creates opportunities. Young people should help shape how it is used.
Data, AI and other digital technologies are changing how young people learn, access services and participate in their communities ’s. Yet access to technology alone does not ensure that young people can benefit from these changes or influence how digital solutions are developed and used. Fit4Future explores how technology can be combined with young people’s knowledge, participation and creativity to address challenges in health, education and urban development.
In its first phase, Fit4Future supported 14 projects that engaged more than 150,000 young people across health, education and urban development.
Approach
Using data and technology to support youth-led innovation
Fit4Future supports youth-led innovation across health, education and urban development, using data and digital technologies to test new approaches and generate learning. In its first phase, 14 projects explored ways to strengthen preventive health, improve STEM learning, amplify civic participation and create safer, more inclusive urban environments. Six projects have continued into a second phase and joined an international Community of Practice to exchange learning on the use of digital tools for youth engagement.
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