In June 2023, Chris Fabian, a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Giga (UNICEF) and his colead
from the ITU, Alex Wong, announced a new strategic move to establish the
organisation’s managerial headquarters in Geneva and locate its tech headquarters in
Barcelona, a major development for the joint initiative between the two UN agencies.

In September 2020, Pradeep Kakkattil was facing difficult questions about his team’s
strategic direction. In the two years since he had founded the Office of Innovation at
UNAIDS – the United Nations agency for coordinating global action on AIDS – the
team had grown from two people to six and had established over 100 partnerships

In 2019, David Behrends, head of Trading and Managing Partner at Sucafina, founded and launched Farmer Connect, a blockchain-based end-to-end transparent solution for the coffee trading industry.