Data Innovation

This first edition of the 2025 UN Innovation Update showcases how 31 UN entities are testing, scaling, and applying practical solutions across health, climate, education, humanitarian action, and more, to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

A 50 minute webinbar describing innovation CRM, data lake and predictive analytics for fundraising

The side event explores how data can reveal trends, challenges, and opportunities in UN peacekeeping and special political missions, highlighting its role in enhancing coordination, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.

Global Data Facility window and Support Program to Put Mobile Phone Data to Work

See how ITU puts the UN 2.0 vision into action - building capabilities, shifting mindsets, and rewiring the system for greater impact.

A virtual UN 2.0 side event organized for exploring how IOM is using innovation, data, and youth leadership to operationalize anticipatory action in migration management.

Discover how UNOPS is transforming supplier engagement through data, digital tools, and behavioural insights. Learn how the DRiVE initiative helps scale sustainable procurement and supports supplier improvement across the UN system.

UN 2.0 Week Side Event on leveraging LLMs to extract strategic insights

DigitalAAP at UN 2.0 showcased AI-powered refugee feedback, turning real-time insights into faster humanitarian decisions.

Agro-Informatics connects information technology with the management, analysis and application of agricultural data to design more accurate and targeted agricultural interventions. The use of satellite imagery, remote sensing, and geographic information systems, enable the transformation of data into actionable information.

A daily healthy meal at school is transformative. Supported by WFP and technology from Nilus, schools can now place orders, verify product quality, and generate digital delivery records quickly. The participation of over 770 small farmers strengthens the rural economy and benefits more than 30,000 students each day, with expectations for continued growth.

SCOUT is a digital solution that automatically generates optimized global/regional-scale supply chain plans and strategic analyses for WFP's corporate inventory, supporting key decisions on what food to buy, where from, when, and how to store and deliver it to operations.

With colleagues, partners and supporters, the WFP Innovation Accelerator achieved significant results in 2024 in deploying innovative solutions worldwide.

The guide offers practical insights on creating flourishing communities in the UN system and beyond.

Explore how 40 UN Entities are leveraging innovative thinking, technologies and new way of working in their work.

This comprehensive action plan encourages UN entities and teams to adapt the actions to the current stage of their journey, setting ambitious targets for each step.