Welcome to the UN Innovation Network

AI could transform disaster response. How do we ensure it reaches those who need it most?

Illustration by Shanice Da Costa

Designing for Adaptation: What We Learned from Building a Climate Innovation Programme in Asia

Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Offers Platform to Build Safe Systems

One year ago, we celebrated the adoption of the Global Digital Compact — the first universal agreement on AI governance. Today, we lay the corner-stones of a global AI ecosystem that can keep pace with the fastest—moving technology in human history. A system that rests on three fundamental pillars — policy, science and capacity.

From Post-its to Transformation Portfolio: Activating an Innovation Ecosystem through Foresight

Strategic Foresight is championed as a key capability under the UN 2.0 agenda, and helps organizations to navigate uncertainty and prepare for the future. If you have ever participated in a foresight workshop, you will know it can be a thought-provoking experience: often filled with post-its and exercises that challenge you to rethink the assumptions you hold about the future and invite you to use your imagination to envision radically different futures. The most thrilling part is when you get to challenge your ideas on what is possible and experience how to transform “ideas” about the future into concrete, actionable projects.