Innovation Library

This webinar features a discussion with Professor Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School.

COVID-19 is being described as the first major pandemic of the social media age. It sparked women and girls to use the internet with greater frequency.

There are many different elements required to create a culture of innovation. This webinar explores one element thereof: embracing innovation success and failure.

Guests demo an indigenous knowledge graph on the evolution of food and discuss ways it could nurture sustainable actions and make AI more culturally aware.

This webinar explains recent AI developments in chess and how it impacts chess played by humans

This session explores more positive synergies between AI and crowdsourcing, through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic.

Meeting of the Focus Group on AI for Autonomous & Assisted Driving -

This review examines which interventions are effective in promoting environmental and development outcomes from individuals, households, communities and companies, and how effective efforts have been to date.

This brief shares WFP's experiences in scaling innovation with the wider community.

This podcast series explores how innovation, or experimentation with ideas to create value, is changing our world and could drive progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

This report explores how behavioural science can be used to influence the behaviour of employers when hiring domestic workers.

The goal of this guide is to recognize, identify and address human bias when engaging in evaluation.

The report highlights several dimensions for effective smart city governance and ways to foster a people-centered approach to smart cities.

This event explored the role that behavioural science can play in policy development, in providing real solutions to challenges our agrifood systems are facing and its potential in key areas of food and agriculture.

The dissemination of false information, either without deliberate intent (misinformation) or with malicious intention (disinformation), is a growing global issue.

A guide for practitioners to run sensemaking within their organisation. Sensemaking helps organsations be more strategic, practice futures thinking and produce more impact from their programming.

In this publication, the FAO food safety foresight programme provides an overview of the major global drivers and trends by describing their food safety implications including climate change, changing consumer behaviour and preferences, new food sources and food production systems, technological advances, microbiome, circular economy, food fraud, among others.

The 2022 edition of Facts and Figures features estimates for key connectivity indicators for the world, global regions, and several country groupings.

This report summarises the discussions and work of members from the International Behavioural Insights and Policy Group, a working group which aims to strengthen the application of behavioural science through shared successes, challenges and overall learning.

This paper examines a series of behavioural interventions designed and tested in rural Ethiopia to try to improve hygiene-related behaviours and decrease the prevalence of trachoma.

This event highlighted examples of innovative initiatives using ICTs to protect oceans, overcome challenges and strengthen efforts to achieve SDG14 – Life below water.

This session highlighted innovative initiatives using ICTs for biodiversity conservation and how they can help overcome challenges and strengthen efforts to mobilize, create and drive solutions to achieve SDG 15.

The UN has embraced the application of behavioural science and issued Guidance to encourage its use as part of its wider transformation process to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

This report provides step-by-step suggestions for practitioners looking to use behavioural sciences to address violent extremism.