Nation’s first UN tech innovation lab to come up in Thiruvananthapuram

The state government has joined hands with United Nation’s body to start the country’s first UN Technology Innovation Lab here.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government has joined hands with United Nation’s body to start the country’s first UN Technology Innovation Lab here for achieving sustainable development goals such as water, sanitation, mobility and agriculture. 


An innovation centre is expected to be set up in Kerala that would serve as a resource centre designed with an intent to train, host and implement models to help the member states progress towards achieving the goals.  


The Centre would be a United Nations technology project led by the Office of Information and Communication Technology and would be staffed with members from both the technology and substantive programme areas of the UN. 


“The association with the United Nations will bring to us right project interventions, global technology, expertise, network through which startups and companies in Kerala can work on a sustainable solution, meaningful development and deployment for these pressing concerns which may also become a solution for other countries or regions as well,” said IT Secretary M Sivasankar.


Kerala Startup Mission will take up the initiative on behalf of the state along with the office of ICT, United Nations. The startups will work closely with the Innovation Lab to build products addressing these issues. “The opportunity to work along with the experts from United Nations, will open a lot of avenues of learning and exposure for our startups,” said Saji Gopinath, CEO of Kerala Startup Mission. 


An ideation workshop was jointly organised on Wednesday by Kerala Startup Mission and United Nations Technology Innovations Labs (UNTIL) to discuss the various sustainable development projects the state can initiate.  UNTIL was represented by Ozzeir Khan, Chief of ICT Business Relations, Office of ICT, United Nations and others.

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