The Innovation Heroes is the flagship initiative from ITC's Innovation Lab that aims at showcasting ITC's innovative practices and innovators.
Development requires a new set of pathways and parameters, designed with courage and creativity. The UNDP Accelerator Labs will create new capabilities for national partners in 78 countries to reimagine development for the 21st century.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) together with core investors, the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Qatar, is building the world’s largest learning network to tackle development challenges. This is a new kind of partnership – one where we engage together in a global experiment explore, test, and grow solutions.
Interested in learning more and become part of this global initiative? Join us in Berlin for the official presentation of the Accelerator Lab Network:
When: 26 June 2019,
16.30h Arrival of Participants and Registration
17-18h Official Programme
18-19h Networking opportunity
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The objective of this fair will be to excite and educate the aviation sector on the possibilities that innovation presents, and to provide insights on how they can start-up innovation in their States.
The 2019 Circularity Gap report warns the rate of raw material extraction at 92 billion tonnes per year is already exceeding planetary boundaries, and that due to population and economic growth this figure could swell to a staggering 184 billion tonnes per year by 2050. The report points out that only a mutually reinforcing combination of low-carbon development and resource efficiency can shift our world economy to a low carbon pathway. Consequently, a systematic and holistic approach to climate change is needed which doesn’t focus on single sectors or industries and instead focuses on a new vision of sustainable, low-carbon growth while re-writing the narrative that reducing emissions is costly to the economy.
This webinar will provide a brief overview of how circular economies, which are aimed at minizing production of wasteful materials and making the most of resources, are well placed to target consumption-based emissions and address responsibilities for outsourced industries. This webinar will also discuss cooperative climate finance approaches that can take into consideration emissions generated along the supply chains and address the emissions embedded in the products as well as off-shore finance markets and related climate finance calculations.
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This event will showcase our recent research into Organizing Innovation and will bring together innovators from across the UN to shed light on different approaches and organizational designs for innovation in International Organizations.
Applying an analytical lens to structural barriers and exploring possible solutions towards an inclusive digital economy in the MENA region!
The rise of Impact Investing shows that positive, measurable, environmental and social change is an investment opportunity that can yield financial returns. Impact Investment is changing the way in which capital is allocated. Its grows steadily year after year and perhaps signals the «paradgim shift» needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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UNICEF & Mapbox will demo open source collaborations that use geospatial data for humanitarian and development support, and will suggest ways to integrate UN data with open source GIS systems.
UN Solutions Summit is an catalytic process that lifts up and advances the work of exceptional teams with innovative solutions to advance the SDGs.
Join us for another webinar in our “Innovations 4 Scale” series as part of which we will be introducing WFP’s award-winning ShareTheMeal app.
This 60-minute interactive session is designed to connect colleagues and nuances around how others approach scaling innovation
The Launch of the Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
The workshop will convene data users and producers from countries in Asia and the Pacific, including from National Statistical Offices, Line Ministries, Civil Society Organizations and the Media.
Join a live conversation on digital cooperation with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Melinda Gates and Jack Ma.
In this TechNovation Talk, participants can learn more about chatbots and develop their own.
Join UNAIDS for the launch of the Health Innovation Exchange, a platform to showcase innovations with potential to deliver large-scale impact for countries reaching the SDG3 targets, and to connect them to innovative financing solutions.
Participate in the first-ever virtual focus group on peacemaking in the Middle East.
Have you heard the term “blockchain”, but still aren’t sure what it is or how it can be used in the context of the United Nations? Join this event to learn how UN Entities are using blockchain in their work.
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Women at various stages and levels in their tech careers from a variety of organizations will participate in a dialogue that will support the 2019 STI Forum theme of "STI for ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.
UNICEF and its partners are using satellite imagery and machine learning to map the location and connectivity level of every school in the world. This mapping will allow UNICEF to promote digital collaboration and advocate for Internet connectivity worldwide.
How are women creating new playing fields, such as female focused ecosystems, instead of leveling the existing ones? How can entrepreneurs leverage them?
Are you a startup entrepreneur in an emerging or developing country? Join UNICEF Innovation Fund’s free online master class on May 7, 2019 at 11am EST with Patricia Hansen and Paula Enei. They will share their experience of building a startup ecosystem at Startup Chile that enables diverse and female founded startups grow.
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The Innovation Bootcamp is a week-long high-intensity training programme during which innovators further refine their projects, rapidly test solutions and develop sustainable business models.
Launch of a new report, which unveils a new era of hybrid opportunities and threats generated by the combination of artificial intelligence and other powerful dual-use technologies.
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.
UNICEF's Office of Innovation will be hosting its first Drones for Social Good Global Conference. At this event, you will learn how UNICEF is using Unmanned Aircraft Systems to strengthen our work in global health and community resilience.
The Organizational Development Section in OHR offers this hands-on in-person training to enhance your skills as an innovator. You will learn how to apply design thinking to improve a UN process by 10x.
This event brings together actors from all sectors to catalyze a broad partnership behind more and better funding for development data and statistics ahead of the United Nations World Data Forum 2020.
In the area of supply chain management and logistics, blockchains could increase accuracy, traceability and transparency through data integrity, simplification, increased security, multi-use big data and guaranteed confidentiality. However, they can also present major challenges, both technical and non- technological.
The event will seek to further raise awareness of the risks and benefits of AI and robotics for a crime, terrorism and security perspective and contributing to fostering a coordinated international movement on the issue.
Across the board in IOs, we are seeing the creation of new structures, experimental programs, accelerators, informal volunteer labs and innovation units. But what is the best approach for our particular context and how do we answer the most pressing questions about organizing innovation?
