Hosted as part of the UN Global Compact's Breakthrough Innovation for the SDGs Action platform, this meeting will explore initiatives that leverage emerging technologies, new business models, and harness innovation to generate solutions addressing the Global Goals.

ITU and DIAL partnered on new research that will be unveiled on the sidelines of UN General Assembly. The research informs a flexible methodology to help countries make smarter and more strategic decisions that promote cross-sector ICT investment.

This workshop is the first in a series of workshops linked to the ITU Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health. The aim of these workshops is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, practitioners, entrepreneurs and policy makers to discuss standardization opportunities for the assessment of AI for health solutions and to identify use cases and data required for the evaluation and validation with open benchmarks.

UNICEF will hold a Special Session on “Innovation for Children and Young People” during its Executive Board to highlight and discuss the rapidly growing opportunities as well as the challenges technology can bring to benefit children’s lives and its broader impact on the world.

Join a talk with Dr. Otto Scharmer (MIT Sloan School of Management) to learn more

• About acupuncture points that provide opportunities to redefine economic paradigms?

• What global platforms are emerging to connect different emerging threads and movements?

• Why is a shift in our collective mindsets key and what is Theory U?

Official launch of the Global Innovation Coalition for Change Gender Innovation Principles, in support of UN Women

The UN-led SDG Dashboard for India is single unified platform that provides granular and reliable data on the SDGs from established national sources, with the aim of providing actionable insights to users to hasten progress towards SDGs. It is essentially a consolidated central repository of SDG related data from over 130 disparate government data sources and the first phase of the SDG Dashboard for India is currently live and running.

The UNDP Innovation Facility and Israel’s Permanent Mission to the UN invite you to a conversation with Prof. Dan Ariely of Duke University about behavioural insights to improve policy-formulation and evidence-based programming.

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To transform towards sustainable and resilient societies we need to become more "Futures Literate" and turn the future into an asset for detecting and inventing the rich emergent, novelty ridden world around us.

Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University & the Center for Advanced Hindsight, will help participants understand how we can shape behaviours toward sustainable development at the first UN Behavioral Insights Day.

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The event will provide a learning space where policymakers can interact with their peers and other relevant stakeholders on the potential applications of blockchain technology and lessons learned from existing applications.

This innovation conversation will explore the basics of what AI technologies are, what the current state of AI research and development looks like, and where these technologies will be relevant and useful for the field of international development.

This  discussion will explore UN-led examples of data innovation in the development and humanitarian sectors that have been institutionalized in Africa and Asia.