Innovation Library

Strengthening Gender Equality in Generative AI (online side-event of the 68th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women)

As the Accelerator Labs move to contribute more deliberately to UNDP’s R&D function, we offer the experience accumulated by our network of labs in the form of this toolkit: a collection of documented resources.

This report tracks global progress of digitalization and countries’ production and use of digital technologies, from digital jobs, digital services exports, and app development to internet use, affordability, quality, and more.

This session helps colleagues improve their prompt engineering skills and learn how to communicate effectively with generative AI tools.

This webinar, from the OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, explores a new Climate Change Risk Index from INFORM that quantifies the humanitarian risks associated with the climate emergency.

This hands-on session is for anyone who would like a few tips to use chatbots more effectively.

This episode is about AI’s promises for medicine, pharmacology, and bioengineering

Recent business transformation initiatives executed by the UN Advisory Alliance for UN entities

Insights into humanitarian data availability and use come from managing the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), an open platform for finding and sharing data across crises and organizations.

The Toolkit for Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement supports the global law enforcement community in their journey towards responsible AI innovation.

Witness the newest cohort of cutting-edge startups and social entrepreneurs pitch live in front of potential funders, government officials, and industry leaders.

This report, developed based on the workshops held with 541 total participants, including a mix of refugees and host community member, seeks to guide UNHCR and other global stakeholders in shaping future digital livelihoods programming and strategies.

Leveraging AI, this report examines the technology accelerator trends across publicly available FAO knowledge reports, technical guidance and convening summaries.

The guidance outlines over 40 recommendations for consideration by governments, technology companies, and health care providers to ensure the appropriate use of LMMs to promote and protect the health of populations.

This webinar illustrates which generative AI product or service could best be used for different scenarios.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to profoundly change the global economy, with some commentators seeing it as akin to a new industrial revolution.

The manual guides trainers and facilitators to assess agricultural innovation systems and identify evidence-based needs and entry points for strengthening them.

The UN is applying behavioural science to support its transformation into a streamlined, agile, and high-impact organisation. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people behave, make decisions and respond to policies.

This paper, prepared by UN Women in collaboration with the Action Coalition on Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality, aims to help governments, policymakers, multilateral organizations, the private sector, and civil society build consensus around a gender-transformative framework to advance women’s and girls’ rights and empowerment in the digital age.

This social innovation toolkit provides valuable resources for young people, especially adolescents and girls, to develop their innovative ideas and accelerate collective efforts to end harmful practices like FGM and child marriage.

This study explores biases in three significant large language models (LLMs): OpenAI’s GPT-2 and ChatGPT, along with Meta’s Llama 2, highlighting their role in both advanced decision-making systems and as user-facing conversational agents. Across multiple studies, the brief reveals how biases emerge in the text generated by LLMs, through gendered word associations, positive or negative regard for gendered subjects, or diversity in text generated by gender and culture.

Hear the stories of young climate innovators from around the world nominated and supported by global accelerators and selected by #Innovation30.

We find ourselves amidst an era marked by an unprecedented polycrisis, where our agrifood systems grapple with challenges that demand attention. Technology and innovation emerge as powerful tools to transform agrifood systems.

The paper explores how embracing creative practice and imagination can catalyse innovation and transformation across the UN system.

UNDP's Gayan Peiris discusses UNDP's digital landscape