Innovation Library

Looking back at 2022, the DPGA Secretariat shares progress against DPGA goals.

The rapid spread of digital technologies is creating new opportunities for growth and development, but the benefits of digitalization are not automatic and women still face multiple obstacles to succeed in the digital economy.

This paper provides an overview of Quantum Computing as a technology, assessing its promise and constraints, discussing the possible role the UN can play with its wider adoption.

The event explored how innovation is understood in five UN entities, as well as what processes they use to foster innovation internally.

The webinar showcases the results of three behavioural science pilot studies on uptake of climate Information in farming decisions, adherence to slaughterhouse cleaning protocols, completion rates of online trainings.

On the occasion of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities 2022, this webinar provided a platform to exchange good practices, discuss challenges, and identify solutions in innovation and technology that support disability-inclusive development.

ITU and partners developed the “Toolkit on Digital Transformation for People-Oriented Cities and Communities” to strengthen the technical and institutional capacities of stakeholders in driving digital transformation in the urban domain.

This paper investigates the systemic challenges that African healthcare innovators experience in the quest to scale their innovations.

The Book takes a look at the state of play of green technologies responding to some of the most critical challenges of climate change with special focus on agriculture and forestry, the water sector and cities.

How can AI and other technologies help provide clean energy in a more just and equitable way? Each year, the IBM Sustainability Accelerator selects new projects and organizations that use technologies such as AI to help communities tackle sustainability issues worldwide.

The Digital Facilitation Toolkit has been created with two purposes: to support the delivery of online capacity-building strategies and to shed light on the different dimensions playing a role when facilitating online.

This webinar discusses features of behavioural science application, skills and capacity requirements, the steps in behavioural science projects and how to apply behavioural science to policies and programmes, as well as to reduce administrative burden.

This webinar explored the benefits that blockchain can bring to financial inclusion and essentially “banking” the unbanked, and celebrated the graduation of its 2021 Blockchain Cohort.

The webinar highlights why digital inclusion is foundational to the achievement of SDGs, shares how senior executives are promoting digital accessibility, and draws a link between digital Innovation and the prerogative for digital accessibility.

The Report looks into the drivers of agricultural automation and analyses the business case for adoption of digital automation technologies in different agricultural production systems across the world.

Predicting war, coups and riots has been a goal for a generation of social studies researchers. Advances in machine learning and newly available historical datasets and predictors have given momentum to the field. Our research focused on the feasibility of predicting conflict for anticipatory action.

A new global study of 3,000 CEOs revealed that sustainability is rising higher on corporate agendas, and decision makers recognize sustainability as a business imperative. Despite this, business leaders continue to face growing pressures from boards and investors, and a lack of reliable data insights hinders their ability to take action.

The conference examines the state of play and the future of AI, survey the potential risks and rewards of AI technologies for international peace and security, and explore the path to Responsible AI.

This primer introduces the different types of UGS, describes their key components and functions, and outlines the main challenges that these systems can pose to international security.

This primer introduces the different types of UAS, describes their key components and functions, and outlines the main challenges that these systems can pose to international security.

This primer introduces the different types of UMS, describes their key components and functions, and outlines the main challenges that these systems can pose to international security.

This report is part of UN-Habitat’s strategy for guiding local authorities in realizing a people-centered digital transformation process in their cities and settlements.

Around half of the world’s primary schools still lack computers and internet access. ITU and UNICEF’s Giga school connectivity aims to turn this around by connecting all schools to the internet. What further opportunities do digital technologies offer to transform education?

This report contains an inventory of Blockchain in the humanitarian sector and proposes Dos and Don’ts for anyone thinking about implementing the technology in the sector.