UN System Data Commons: Advancing Open and Interoperable Data Across the UN System

Developing country firms and governments invest little in innovation and technology to unlock productivity gains. This report uncovers the key to this innovation paradox and offers guidance on how to navigate the resulting dilemma.

The 3rd episode of the webinar series will focus on Industrial Safety and Cybersecurity.

AI can lift growth, expand opportunities, improve public services, and strengthen resilience. The same technologies, however, can accelerate exclusion, undermine governance, and raise human insecurity. This report links AI to global inequality, labor market disruption, gender gaps in access, and differences in state capacity and trust. In Asia and the Pacific, AI readiness exceeds 70% in advanced economies but falls below 20% in fragile states, highlighting how uneven the starting line already is.

This publication analyses the relevance of blockchain for international trade by reviewing how it is or can be used in areas covered by WTO rules.