Innovation Library

The WHO Technical Advisory Group on behavioural insights and science for health developed six behavioural insights principles and five steps to support WHO’s efforts and those of its partners.

The report provides insights for understanding the travel and tourism tech investments and the travel and tourism startups, delving into the relevant features and considerations.

An overview of the 100 most outstanding tourism proposals, selected by the UNWTO Innovation Team.

For the third year in a row, the UNWTO has partnered with the fDi intelligence from the Financial Times to develop a joint publication on Tourism Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) analyzing data on Greenfield investments trends. The relevance of this report is pivotal to governments and investors because it exposed data on flows of capital, and destinations for investments providing insight on market trends for the tourism recovery.

UNWTO has developed a series of Investment Guidelines to enhance coordination and cooperation and mobilize global investment mechanisms to respond to a global crisis. "Enabling Frameworks for Tourism Investment" provides insights for understanding and enabling the conditions and barriers to mobilize tourism investment and so build a competitive, sustainable and inclusive tourism sector beyond the attraction and promotion approaches.

Meet the 25 winners of the SDG Global Startup Competition, working for a More Sustainable and Innovative Tourism, selected as the most disruptive startups that directly contribute to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs.

In response to the COVID-19 impact on tourism, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has opened a space to share startups and companies working for restarting tourism. Setting innovation and sustainability as the new normal

The publication features 12 case studies from 15 cities in six sectors of environmental sustainability and climate action.

The guide outlines the innovation impact stories competition process to highlight innovative approaches and activities that contribute to efficiencies, inclusiveness and the maximization of impacts in different urban contexts

This playbook provides a pragmatic approach to assessing the digital divide and will equip readers with crucial information they can use to establish a culture of digital inclusion within their organizations and communities.

This Playbook is structured around six main steps that public authorities, NGOs or communities can take towards taking action to address the digital divide.

This toolkit supports statistical systems to increase the understanding and use of gender statistics by government officials and other development practitioners, and includes descriptions of concepts with practical examples, and practical exercises for use in the training sessions.

UNICEF has developed this policy guidance to promote children's rights in government and private sector AI policies and practices, and to raise awareness of how AI systems can uphold or undermine these rights.

This report highlights how geospatial technologies is being applied to all of the Sustainable Development Goals with case studies from across the UN.

This brief explores how behavioural science can be used to reduce administrative burdens and increase efficiency, effectiveness and improve employee satisfaction within the UN system.

The report sheds light on the evolving nature of the digital divide and takes stock of the progress towards closing it.

The series of publications explores how data centres can become more environmentally sustainable, improve energy efficiency and use innovative cooling techniques.

This report highlights the opportunities and challenges that policymakers and development partners have to expand the frontiers of inclusive innovation.

Go.Data is an outbreak investigation tool for public health emergencies, and includes features for contact tracing, contact follow-up, and visualizing chains of transmission. This repository helps users implement Go.Data for outbreak investigation.

This report highlights over 200 cases and AI projects run by 40 UN entities covering all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The guide supports policymakers in the development of National Cybersecurity Strategies.

The Guide provides practical guidance and best practice for policy makers concerned with harnessing the benefits of the digital economy and s​ociety.

This bilingual platform is used to assess the maturity and the internationalisation readiness of tech start-ups.

This toolbox showcases principles, tools and practices to measure the impact of volunteer work for the SDGs.

TheUN Climate Change Innovation Compendium and linked living library showcase initiatives, programmes and policies launched by UN Entities that are using innovative approaches to respond to climate change.