Innovation Library

Browse our living library showcasing events related to UN 2.0 priority areas taking place during the Summit of the Future and UN General Assembly 2024.

The webinars introduced Digital Public Goods and the Digital Public Goods Standard, exploring their importance in promoting inclusive and equitable digital access.

This webinar explores open source, the opportunities and risks associated with it, and how it can be used for the work of the UN.

The report offers a summary of the "AI for All: Bridging Divides, Building a Sustainable Future" conference, which fostered a dialogue on the role of AI in shaping a more equitable world.

This report from the UN and the ILO addresses the critical issue of the uneven adoption of AI and its implications for global equity, fairness, and social justice.

Amidst the challenges confronting agriculture in Europe and Central Asia, this casebook unfolds the stories of 25 farmers and agripreneurs who have successfully embraced digital technologies.

The report presents the policy directions distilled from the UNU Macau AI Conference, a contribution of UNU to the UN Summit of the Future.

The Digital Economy Report 2024 underscores the urgent need for environmentally sustainable and inclusive digitalization strategies.

This Knowledge Brief outlines some of our learnings and insights from internal exploration and experimentation on CBDC interoperability with existing payment systems like fast payment systems (FPS).

This publication explores the integration of digital technologies into Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes - a results-based financing mechanism that incentivizes local communities, farmers, and Indigenous Peoples to engage in environmental conservation and restoration activities.

This report calls for the world to pay heed and respond to a range of emerging challenges that could disrupt planetary health and well-being. It presents insights on eight critical global shifts that are accelerating the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste.

This third report, a joint effort of the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), examines behavioral science as applied to the field of public health

This panel discussion on the future of the humanitarian system includes panelists Nathalie Olijslager, Director of Stabilisation and Humanitarian Assistance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Gemma Connell, Chief of the Assessment, Planning & Monitoring Branch, OCHA; and Minako Manome, Head of Risk Anticipation Hub, UNDP. Moderated by Kareem Elbayar, Private Sector Unit Team Lead, OCHA.

This working paper explains what neurotechnology is and, through the lens of opportunities and risks, highlights current applications of neurotechnology involving children, and considers future and emerging uses.

Farm2Go is WFP's digital solution to support smallholder farmer programme activities.

Oky is a girl-centered digital solution for menstruation, sexual and reproductive health education and period tracking.

DGACM embarked on a journey to digitally transform intergovernmental services and unlocked a variety of new digital use cases.

The Migration Management Digital Maturity Assessment tool indicates a country’s digital maturity level, provides recommendations and tools for decisions makers

The State of Broadband annual report is a unique, global snapshot of broadband access, affordability, and use.

This session discussed how partnerships can enhance the impact of behavioural science applications, from local to global levels.

This session featured discussions with DCO, FAO, ICAO, IOM and UNESCO who shared their experiences starting with and progressing behavioural science application.

This session examined sustainability initiatives by OHCHR, UNEP, UNU, and the World Bank, utilising BeSci.

In this session, DPPA and OCT discussed behavioural science applications in the context of peace and security with Professor Mina Cikara (Harvard University) and Andrés Casas (Neuropaz).

This session showcased behavioural approaches to bridge this divide by the ILO and UNCDF including promoting social security registration of domestic workers and increasing savings through digital financial services.

This event highlighted strategies to address unequal social and gender norms. The World Bank provided guidance on how to apply a social norms lens to gender policy and interventions