The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), in collaboration with Futbol Club Barcelona, presents the 1st UNWTO Sports Tourism Start-up Competition, an initiative committed to innovation and the promotion of entrepreneurship in sports.
Research has found that intrapreneurship and bottom-up innovation have the potential to fundamentally transform the way IOs work, allowing them to achieve the SDGs in the digital age. However they struggle to inspire such behaviour and are lacking the structures to scale bottom-up ideas.
UNESCO, in partnership with its confirmed partners – the International Telecommunication Union and the Profuturo Foundation – will convene a special edition of Mobile Learning Week.
The conference aims at bringing Member States’ representatives and the United Nations together with top researchers, experts, practitioners, the private sector, civil society and other key actors to discuss the opportunities provided by Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for sustainable development as well the challenges they might present to the implementation of the Agenda 2030.
This event is jointly by organized by UNOG and the Missions of Canada, Jamaica and Switzerland and will include a Panel and Roundtable Discussion.
The workshop will include sessions on current space exploration cooperation mechanisms and potential future ones and space for women.
The first Interagency Innovation Bootcamp, hosted by the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Innovation Accelerator, is a week-long high-intensity training programme to spark and catalyse new innovation projects across the UN. Bootcamps provide innovators with the time, space and skills to focus on their project, refine their idea and take it to the next level.
There is a lot of interest to learn more about how UN Entities have set-up and structured their Innovation Functions and their approach to supporting innovators from within and outside of their organisations.
We'd like to invite you to join us for a mini-webinar series as part of which WFP, UNHCR, UNDP and UNICEF will introduce their innovation functions and answer any questions you might have. This webinar will introduce UNDP’s Innovation Team.
Join UNICEF Innovation Fund’s free online master class on February 20, 2019 at 9am EDT with Jennifer Petriglieri, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. An award winning researcher and teacher, Jennifer will tackle common myths associated with female leadership. Is it true that women lead differently to men? How can you play to your strengths in your leadership style?
in this first “Expand Horizon” Webinar, Azeem Azhar will provide context to the innovation work happening today, showing how innovation is accelerating and where the future is taking us. Ultimately the talk is aimed at empowering people to take the opportunities that exist in front of us by understanding how the history of innovation has lead us to this point using practical examples. The aim is to show the responsibility we have as innovators and the change we can make by taking the leap into entrepreneurship.
But with hunger on the rise, we need to come up with bold, new solutions💥. Watch live as budding entrepreneurs pitch their bright ideas at the WFP Innovation Accelerator.
To kick off our knowledge sharing series “Innovations 4 Scale” we are joined by UN Global Pulse's Pulse Lab Jakarta, who will introduce the VAMPIRE platform.
This 8-week course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace provides an in-depth introduction to the multiple roles that natural resources and the environment play in the onset, escalation, and resolution of, and recovery from, violent conflicts. Many of the considerations and approaches in this course are also relevant to understanding and addressing social conflicts around natural resources and the environment.
What is the current work situation for young people in different parts of Africa? How is it influenced by the changing nature of work? Considering this, how can Africa harness the potential of its youth today and in future? To better understand these questions and the extent of tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges, and to guide future actions, SDC and ILO join forces to organize the Future of Work for African Youth Conference in Geneva, with an interactive livestream for global audiences.
There is a lot of interest to learn more about how UN Entities have set-up and structured their Innovation Functions and their approach to supporting innovators from within and outside of their organisations.
We'd like to invite you to join us for a mini-webinar series as part of which WFP, UNHCR, UNDP and UNICEF will introduce their innovation functions and answer any questions you might have. This webinar will introduce UNHCR's Innovation Service.
As part of UNDP’s global project, Ending Gender-based Violence and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, participatory GBV local action plans are being piloted in several settings. The UNU-IIGH team is leading a piece of research and policy translation on the costs, value for money and financing of these local plans in 5 countries
The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Secretariat hosts Virtual Town Halls on every first Monday of the month to share updates from the past month, an overview of upcoming activities, and provide an open forum for questions and discussion.
Leaders at the forefront of business and investment will share how emerging funding models, from corporate funds to crowdfunded pitch competitions, are increasing capital availability for women entrepreneurs and how concretely they can access capital. Practical examples will be showcased.
Together with private and public companies as well as NGOs and the philanthropic community, the luncheon will pave the way towards collaboration and agenda setting towards more agile and effective SDG led innovation in International Organizations.
Join UNICEF Innovation Fund’s first free online master class on January 23, 2019 at 9am EDT with Alisee de Tonnac, CEO of Seedstars. Why is investing in female-led companies smart? What do investors look for in a company? How can you best position yourself to access early investments?
The second edition of the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) Symposium will take place in Cairo, Egypt from 22-24 January 2019. The Symposium is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), jointly with the World Bank Group and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and is kindly hosted by the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt.
This course introduces participants to the various opportunities and challenges faced by SMEs working in the creative industries, with a particular focus on new technologies and financing schemes
The two high-ranking High Level Panels featuring international experts give international organisations the opportunity to present their work on the GFFA theme of “Agriculture Goes Digital – Smart Solutions for Future Farming”
Join innovators from all across the UN for after-work drinks at the UN Delegates Lounge. This will be a casual opportunity to meet new people, put a few names and faces together and maybe hear what other colleagues are working on.
The hackathon aims to develop technology-driven solutions for some of today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges by engaging the humanitarian and private sector to deliver validated prototypes for solutions that are applicable, replicable and scalable in humanitarian contexts.
The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Secretariat hosts Virtual Town Halls on every first Monday of the month to share updates from the past month, an overview of upcoming activities, and provide an open forum for questions and discussion.
Organised jointly by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Gender inequalities and gender-based violence are complex problems that cannot be solved with technical solutions alone. Innovation can help to improve our ability to deliver violence prevention and response services; to design and evaluate ethical experiments to scale what works; and it has the potential to facilitate systems-change efforts.
Renowned theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and inventor Dr. Vivienne Ming will be be giving a talk about the future of human potential and share how we can use “mad science” to experiment with whole new visions of work, education, innovation, and inclusive economies.
The Humanitarian Blockchain Summit will bring together technology experts, scholars, and humanitarian practitioners for dynamic discussions about the future of blockchain technology in humanitarian operations and in pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The conference, organised by the HLCM Finance and Budget Network, will offer insights into innovative advances being achieved in the area of finance, and provide inspiration for some opportunities for further innovation within financial management functions in the UN system.
Innovation is the central driving force which will transform food systems, lift family farmers out of poverty and help the world to achieve food security, sustainable agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Symposium will provide inspiration for innovation actors and decision-makers and, among other things, will celebrate inspiring success stories of innovators, acting as catalyst for boosting partnerships as well as public and private investments to foster and scale up agricultural innovation.
A Data Science Africa 2018 seminar will be hosted on 12th-16th November in Nigeria. The event will include workshops and presentations by data experts, legal and privacy specialists and public sector specialists. It will be preceded by a three-day school on machine learning and data science where participants can learn and interact with presenters.
The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Secretariat hosts monthly Virtual Town Halls on every first Monday of the month to provide an update from the past month and an overview of upcoming activities.
Through inspiring stories from 200 organizations across sectors and geographies, UNDP’s Guest Speaker Ann Mei will share both the theory and the practice behind successful social innovation.
This session / workshop will consider public/private partnership models and cooperation with the private sector to increase the use of space science, technology and applications for economic growth and sustainable development, as well as the legal and ethical aspects of cooperation models involving non-State actors.
