Innovation Library

Developing strong digital skills is key to building future-ready organisations, enabling us to navigate and make the most of new digital solutions and approaches. That's why we dedicated November to Digital Capacity Building

This handbook guides countries from digitizing records to digitalization, paving the way for digital transformation and fundamentally reshaping health service delivery and access.

This comprehensive action plan encourages UN entities and teams to adapt the actions to the current stage of their journey, setting ambitious targets for each step.

This paper documents emerging practices by digital labour platforms and other agents and intermediaries facilitating access to platform work that have the potential to improve access to work and working conditions for refugees and host communities.

This Anti-Scam Handbook v1.0 culminates from the work of UNDP and its coalition of experts across diverse sectors at the global and national levels. It addresses the gaps in global understanding on digital scams in developing countries; provides a toolkit to support countries in driving more effective multi-stakeholder collaborative responses; and presents case evidence across Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

This report responds to requests fromWorld Health Organization (WHO) Member States and the United Nations Economic and Social Council to provide support in promoting and implementing digital solutions to address the growing burden of NCDs. It also builds on work by WHO and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), such as the Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Health.

This report presents five case studies of how public policy can accelerate private sector action on three transitions key to achieving the SDGs: digitalization, energy transition and decent work & social protection.

If you have followed the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the Summit of the Future (SoF) you have probably heard the buzz around the newly adopted Global Digital Compact. To give you an overview of everything there is to know about the GDC and answer your questions, the UN Digital Community hosted a learning session, following our UNGA & SoF Debrief of key digital insights.

Leaders from UNDP, UNICEF, UNEP, the Office of the UN Tech Envoy and more share their key takeaways and digital insights from UNGA 2024 and the Summit of the Future.

This webinar will showcase how these AI-driven tools can be tailored to meet the unique needs of UN teams and individuals without requiring advanced IT skills or coding expertise

The Framework is the result of a multi-stakeholder approach to ensure DPI implementations mitigate risks at both the individual and societal level.

Telling people what to do doesn’t work. So how do we create the right conditions for change?

Featuring high-level representatives from countries participating in 50-in-5, this event showcased the progress being made around the world to implement safe, inclusive, and interoperable digital public infrastructure and it's potential to radically improve the well-being of both people and planet.

The event brought forward-looking commitments from all stakeholders to harness innovation, science and data in a more inclusive, safe and sustainable manner.

The Digital Inclusion Playbook 2.0 serves as a critical resource to help countries and communities advance inclusive digital transformation effectively in a world of rapidly evolving technologies and complex global dynamics.

Browse our living library showcasing events related to UN 2.0 priority areas taking place during the Summit of the Future and UN General Assembly 2024.

​This report outlines a blueprint for addressing AI-related risks and sharing its transformative potential globally.

The webinars introduced Digital Public Goods and the Digital Public Goods Standard, exploring their importance in promoting inclusive and equitable digital access.

This webinar explores open source, the opportunities and risks associated with it, and how it can be used for the work of the UN.

The report offers a summary of the "AI for All: Bridging Divides, Building a Sustainable Future" conference, which fostered a dialogue on the role of AI in shaping a more equitable world.

This report from the UN and the ILO addresses the critical issue of the uneven adoption of AI and its implications for global equity, fairness, and social justice.

Amidst the challenges confronting agriculture in Europe and Central Asia, this casebook unfolds the stories of 25 farmers and agripreneurs who have successfully embraced digital technologies.

The report presents the policy directions distilled from the UNU Macau AI Conference, a contribution of UNU to the UN Summit of the Future.

The Digital Economy Report 2024 underscores the urgent need for environmentally sustainable and inclusive digitalization strategies.

This Knowledge Brief outlines some of our learnings and insights from internal exploration and experimentation on CBDC interoperability with existing payment systems like fast payment systems (FPS).