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Innovation Library
Explore our living library of innovation-related webinars and publications developed and hosted by UNIN and UN Entities.
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May 25, 2022
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Robotic Exploration of Subterranean Worlds
The webinar highlights the current state-of-the-art robots, explores the remaining scientific challenges, and assesses the applications and limitations of such technologies.
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May 25, 2022
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The Metaverse and the Real World
The metaverse is a digital universe characterised by the interaction of physical, augmented and virtual reality in a shared online space. How fast will the metaverse impact daily life? How will society interact with and within this virtual world?
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May 25, 2022
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TechLearnTalk: An Introduction to Robotics
In this TechLearnTalk, UNICRI introduces Robotics in a non-technical way and UNMAS provides a case study on robotics for the disposal of explosive devices.
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May 25, 2022
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Data Protection & Privacy within UN System Organisations
The webinar brought together data protection specialists from United Nations system organizations to provide insights into their privacy and data protection work.
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May 25, 2022
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Dataset Deep-dive: Data for Good at Meta’s Relative Wealth Index
This webinar provides an overview of datasets from Meta, which are publicly available on HDX, and a deep dive on the new Relative Wealth Index, a series of AI-powered poverty maps available for nearly 100 low and middle-income countries.
SDG 01: No Poverty
May 25, 2022
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Innovation to Accelerate Progress for Women and Girls
The high-level roundtable offered a platform for a dialogue on innovative ways to remove the barriers between women and girls and their rights and choices.
SDG 05: Gender Equality
May 25, 2022
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Digital Transformation at WFP
This webinar shares WFP's experiences of an organisation-wide commitment to Digital Transformation since it was declared a corporate priority five years ago.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
May 25, 2022
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Supporting Mitigation Finance through Blockchain (Part 4 of the "Blockchain Technology for Climate Policy Implementation" Webinar Series)
The 4th webinar in the series provides an overview of blockchain in the context of mitigation finance, infrastructural investments and offsetting projects.
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022
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Managing Carbon Emissions through Blockchain (Part 5 of the "Blockchain Technology for Climate Policy Implementation" Webinar Series)
The 5th webinar in the series provides an overview of blockchain in the context of international carbon markets and meta-registries.
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022
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Creating Sustainable Value Chains through Blockchain (Part 6 of the "Blockchain Technology for Climate Policy Implementation" Webinar Series)
The 6th webinar in the series provides an overview of blockchain in the context of sustainable value and supply chains.
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022
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Behavioural Science to Combat Mis- and Disinformation
This webinar highlights the potential of Behavioural Science to combat mis- and disinformation, showcase how different actors are already using it; and explore the role different actors should play to address its spread.
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May 25, 2022
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Learning from Experience to Increase Forest Data Transparency for Climate Action
This webinar highlights approaches to use data to increase transparency of reporting in the forest sector.
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 15: Life on Land
May 25, 2022
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UNicoins - Digital Tokens for the UN
This UN Blockchain Group session shares an update on UNicoins, the YoungUN-led project that aims to encourage cross-UN collaboration through tokenisation.
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May 25, 2022
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Accelerating Action towards A Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age
This Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) Side Event at UNEA presents the Action Plan for A Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age.
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022
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Accelerating Agricultural Digital Transformation through AI and IoT
This webinar explored various aspects of leveraging AI and IoT in accelerating digital transformation for agricultural production processes, and examined the current standardization terrain related to the agricultural sphere.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
SDG 13: Climate Action
May 25, 2022
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Using Behavioural Insights in the response to COVID-19
This webinar features reflections on how behavioural insights has been integrated into the COVID-19 response in three continents, the challenges faced and learnings to date.
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May 25, 2022
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Blockchain Technologies in the Humanitarian Sector
This webinar discusses the fundamentals of blockchain, various applications in the humanitarian sector, and how WFP has implemented blockchain to help serve its beneficiaries.
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May 25, 2022
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Agile in Action: Practical Ways to Create Agile Teams and Organizations
This webinar explores modern agile methodologies and how they can empower you and your team towards greater flexibility, clarity and productivity.
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May 25, 2022
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The UNconnected Podcast
The podcast discussions focus on global collaboration to connect the 2.9 billion people that remain unconnected, to achieve sustainable socio-economic development for all.
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May 25, 2022
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Cobots for Good: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
This webinar explores how we are transitioning from assembly-line robots to more flexible and reliable cobots and how robotic collaborative systems are emerging as a powerful enabler of human-robot skill transfer.
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May 25, 2022
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How NFTs can give more Children the Chance to learn online
This webinar explores how non-fungible tokens (NFTs) can raise funding for the work of the UN.
SDG 04: Quality Education
May 25, 2022
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Masterclass on How Innovations Can Transform the Path to the 2030 Agenda
The Masterclass combines lessons learnt on how an enabling innovation ecosystem can help new ideas take hold and scale up to support the achievement of the SDGs and demonstrates these through real-world projects.
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May 25, 2022
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AI for Good Global Summit - COVID-19: Misinformation, Disinformation and What to Do About It
Every disease outbreak also comes with an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation and disinformation, incl. fake medical advice, unproven treatments and conspiracy theories.
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