Data Innovation

This Strategy was assembled to help UN leaders, managers and colleagues everywhere generate more value from the UN’s wealth of data for the organization, people and planet when it matters most.

This brief shares different approaches to and experiences with scanning the horizon for innovative ideas within or outside of organisations.

This guide offers an overview of e-analytics in the context of peacemaking and preventive diplomacy.

This Guide provides step-by-step guidance for development practitioners to leverage new sources of data

Explore how UN Entities are leveraging innovation to respond to COVID-19.

Explore how UN Entities are leveraging innovation to respond to COVID-19.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of UN Entities in the third quarter of 2020.

This guide shows how UNHCR staff and partners can develop a Community-Based Protection strategy, using Social Media in a way that respects UNHCR’s data protection policy and PoCs’ rights to privacy and security.

Highlights from the innovation efforts of 40+ UN Entities throughout 2020.

The report aims to increase awareness of the data that is available to inform humanitarian operations around the world and to highlight what is missing.

Annual Report of UNICEF's Venture Fund

How might we integrate climate change into economic analysis to promote green policies?

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big uptake of technology, especially digital technologies. This report takes advantage of this shift to delve into which firms have adopted and use technologies and to what purpose.

Learn more about agricultural technology – from vertical farming to agricultural apps to farm drones – which is growing and becoming the new normal.

We aim to propose an international Pledge on global data resources opened to contributions from national governments, institutions and private organizations alike, the Pledge calls for establishing a multilateral system for data resources sharing that includes global rules for access and standards to maximize the impact and benefits of sharing of those data assets at scale.