Digital Transformation

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.

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

AI4All: Acceleration Program in UNGSC

UN Digital ID: Uniting the UN’s Global Culture

This session spotlights the Connectivity for Refugees initiative and its partners advancing affordable and accessible connectivity for forcibly displaced people.

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.

A panel discussion with project leads, donors, and supporters of innovation.

The Digital Villages Initiative aims to transform villages in Europe and Central Asia into hubs that are smarter, greener, and richly digitally connected and interconnected. The goal is to empower every village and rural community to utilize digital technologies to increase agricultural productivity and access to services, and uplift rural livelihoods by leveraging their local strengths.

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.

This session explores Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)—an approach that has accelerated inclusive digital transformation in countries such as India, Brazil, and Estonia. Our speakers addressed what DPI is—and what it isn’t, the guiding principles shaping the UN’s vision for DPI and how to navigate the opportunities and challenges of DPI at scale.

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