Innovation Library

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 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 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 webinar explores how the rapid advancement of GenAI is transforming diplomatic processes and what this means for the future of global diplomacy.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

This event explored the transformative role of AI in evaluation practices and its implications.

This session highlighted experiences from DESA, DOS, DMSPC, IAEA and UNSSC applying behavioural science to change how organisations work.

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

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.

In this session, DPO spoke about using data science to identify inauthentic behavioural patterns in digital media data, such as signatures of malicious actors spreading harmful narratives

In this session, we took a tour discussing behavioural science insights with policy and programming applications, covering various topics from mega studies to habit formation with Professor Katy Milkman (University of Pennsylvania).

Presentations in this event discussed efforts of UNDRR, UNFCCC, UN Futures Lab, UN Global Pulse and WMU in combining these capabilities to create behaviourally-informed, resilient and anticipatory futures.