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March 20, 2025
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UNDC Spotlight Series | Leveraging Digital Technologies and Capacities for Gender Equality

SDG 05: Gender Equality
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 20, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo on Gender Equality | D4WEE

SDG 05: Gender Equality
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 20, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo on Gender Equality | Shakti

SDG 05: Gender Equality
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 20, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo on Gender Equality | Laaha

SDG 05: Gender Equality
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 5, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Peacekeeping | CPAS

The Comprehensive Planning and Performance Assessment System (CPAS)
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 4, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Peacekeeping | Identifying GenAI use-cases

AI isn’t just the future—it’s here, and it’s ready to transform peacekeeping.
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 4, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Peacekeeping | Unite Aware

Unite Aware (UA) – Digital platform for managing situational awareness data in UN Peace Operations:
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 4, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Peacekeeping | Identifying GenAI use-cases

SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
March 3, 2025
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UNDC Spotlight Series | How Digital Technologies are Transforming UN Peacekeeping

This session highlights the Digital Transformation of UN Peacekeeping, hosted by the Digital Enablement Team of the United Nations Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO).
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
SDG 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
February 28, 2025
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Beyond Numbers: A New Approach to Impact Storytelling

This guide is designed to inspire approaches for breaking down those silos by offering a multidisciplinary framework for more integrated, participatory and meaningful impact reporting.
All
February 27, 2025
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Cultivating UN Innovation Communities: Key Questions and Considerations

The guide offers practical insights on creating flourishing communities in the UN system and beyond.
All
February 16, 2025
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Innovation Portfolio Sense-Making

The Office of Innovation launched the Portfolio Sense-Making initiative to mainstream the concept of innovation portfolio management across FAO teams and Divisions/Offices at HQ, Regional and Country levels. Portfolio Sense-Making involves systematically analyzing and visualizing innovation projects and their key data to understand their interrelationships, strengths, areas for improvement and potential impacts, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic alignment with Organizational goals.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
February 7, 2025
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World Smart Cities Outlook 2024

The World Smart Cities Outlook 2024 provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of people-centred smart city development globally. Serving as a foundational reference for drafting the International Guidelines on People-Centred Smart Cities, the report offers qualitative and quantitative insights into smart city trends, challenges and opportunities, including fresh data on regional variations, the digital divide, skills gaps and much more.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
February 3, 2025
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Accelerating Sustainable Urban Futures: A Practical Guide for Challenge-driven Innovation in Cities

Building on the work of Challenge Works and UN-Habitat, this guide helps local government leaders and innovators apply challenge-driven innovation in cities. It offers a step-by-step approach, real-world examples, practical tips, and useful resources to tackle urban challenges using innovation.
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
January 31, 2025
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UNFPA Innovation Strategy 2030

The Innovation Strategy outlines the guiding principles of UNFPA’s innovation trajectory, reaffirming our commitment to being future-focused and fostering an environment where transformative ideas and solutions can thrive.
SDG 05: Gender Equality
January 30, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Health Special | AI to fight AIDS

UNAIDS shared a scoping study on AI’s role in ending AIDS, mapping initiatives in HIV prevention and treatment. Examples include a PrEP chatbot in Brazil, telehealth HIV testing in South Africa, and machine learning for risk assessment and resource allocation.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
January 30, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Health Special | CODA

Conditional On-Demand Assistance is a cutting-edge digital health solution that revolutionizes beneficiary case management and service delivery in health and nutrition programs. It improves data quality, efficiency, and scalability, leading to better outcomes for vulnerable populations.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
January 30, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Health Special | DrugDash

UNFPA Uganda's DrugDash enhances pharmaceutical supply chain management by tracking drug supplies and consumption patterns. It generates user-friendly visualizations to support data-driven decision-making and accurate forecasting.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
January 30, 2025
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UNDC Digital Transformation Expo Health Special | Me-Smile

UNDP’s Me-Smile, a health care waste management system from Indonesia, uses IoT-enabled digital scales and QR code scanners for accurate tracking. It streamlines labelling, weighing, recording, and reporting, cutting hospital waste weighing time from 3 hours to 30 minutes while enhancing accuracy.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
January 29, 2025
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UNDC Spotlight Series | How Digital Technologies are Transforming the Health Sector

The Digital Health Spotlight begins with a deep dive into Digital Health, and its potential as an enabler of equitable, resilient, and efficient health systems.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
SDG 09: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
January 27, 2025
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Monitoring Smart Inclusive Transitions for an Equitable Urban Future, Using Global Urban Monitoring Framework

By 2030, two-thirds of the global population will reside in cities, confronting both technological progress and inequality. The Smart-Inclusive Transition (SIT) leverages technology to ensure equitable access to urban services for all citizens, regardless of ability or status.
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
January 27, 2025
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Digital Pathways for Education: Enabling Greater Impact for All

This publication presents a conceptual framework followed by a discussion of global evidence on the opportunities and risks of going digital, the contextual preconditions, and how digital pathways can be tailored to produce greater educational impact at scale for all.
SDG 04: Quality Education
January 27, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence Readiness Assessment (AIRA) 2024

This report evaluates Bhutan’s readiness to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies within its governmental frameworks.
All
January 10, 2025
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Impact Report (2024): UNODC RiseUp4Peace Initiative

RiseUp4Peace is an educational initiative of UNODC being spearheaded in collaboration with educator partners in India at the school level, aimed at promoting a culture of peace, lawfulness, inclusion and integrity in young minds.
SDG 04: Quality Education
SDG 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
December 16, 2024
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Navigating the Future - Four scenarios assessing child well-being in the 21st century

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.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being

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