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-lsb- http://www.ericakochi.com/ personal website -rsb- sendai , japan 18 october 1979 unicef innovation , rapidsms , ureport new york city , usa erica kochi unicef.jpg erica kochi
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erica kochi

erica kochi , -lrb- born 1979 , in sendai , japan -rrb- is a humanitarian and a technologist who co-leads unicef 's innovation unit , together with christopher fabian .
in 2013 , she was chosen by time magazine to be on the time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world .
unicef innovation has recognized success in innovative design of development solutions .
examples of this work include the digital drum , which was recognized by `` time '' magazine as one of the top 50 inventions of 2011 , the award-winning rapidsms - a system that uses basic mobile phones and sms messages to communicate with front-line workers and improve the speed and quality of data collection and health and education services , and a gold and silver idsa awards , and a redhat prize for being one of the top four open source projects since 2007 , unicef innovation has worked with partners to develop open source technologies that have registered 7 million births in nigeria over 15 months and provided antenatal care to thousands of pregnant women across rwanda .
these systems have led to successes such as the tracking of the distribution of more than 25 million insecticide treated mosquito nets and a direct feedback loop from more than 190,000 young ugandans to engage with their government and change policy in real time .
before unicef , kochi worked with the commission for macroeconomics and health , a joint collaboration between the world bank and the world health organization .
kochi has also co-taught `` design for unicef '' at new york university 's tisch school of the arts with clay shirky .
she has lectured at the yale school of management , harvard university , the art center college of design , stanford university school of engineering , and columbia university 's school of international and public affairs on technology , innovation , design and international development .
