Innovation Library

Humanity faces intertwined challenges like climate change, geopolitical instability, and socioeconomic disparities, shaping children's well-being. Addressing these issues requires integrated, equitable solutions and informed policy choices. This study presents four scenarios modeling the long-term impact of technology, resources, and global cooperation on human development.

UNifyHR revolutionizes HR Operations for 13 UN agencies by leveraging Generative AI.

24/7 inter-agency booking services supporting humanitarian workers to deliver last mile aid.

Explore how 40 UN Entities are leveraging innovative thinking, technologies and new way of working in their work.

UNify HR is an AI-driven chatbot that streamlines HR policy inquiries across 13 UN organisations.

This Digital Skills Learning Session is dedicated to the question “How to design inclusive digital products and programmes”.

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 report provides an update on the state of climate science and the latest weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the future.

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 webinar aims to explore digital cultural diffusion dynamics and highlight technologies' impact on cultural connection and intercultural understanding.

The ever-evolving Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is profoundly impacting people’s engagement with media and information. As it continues to evolve, what are implications of generative AI for us, how can we use it to empower ourselves, and what knowledge and skillsets are needed to address its challenges? To enhance people’s critical thinking and awareness of these issues, the United Nations University Institute in Macau (UNU Macau) hosted to provide an open platform for the public, researchers, media practitioners, and relevant stakeholders to exchange ideas and engage in insightful discussions.

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.

This publication releases the methodology behind the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP) Target Similarity Assessments and identifies key lessons learned and opportunities for future applications.

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

This framework aims to provide a common reference for AI policy development to ensure a level of consistency and harmonization among the policies of UN System Organizations while taking into account their distinct mandates, working modalities and operational realities.

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?