This self-paced training course offers an introductory exploration of strategic foresight tailored to individuals engaged in fostering digital innovation for sustainable development. With a focus on bridging the digital divide and addressing global challenges, the course emphasizes the crucial role of strategic foresight in shaping equitable futures. Through seven modules, participants delve into essential concepts, tools, and terminology while honing practical skills in futures thinking. The course equips learners with the competencies to integrate strategic foresight into their specific domains, fostering strategic thinking and innovation in digital development initiatives. By recognizing the value of strategic foresight processes, participants gain insights to drive meaningful change in their projects, policies, and strategies, ultimately contributing to the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The overall aim of this training program is to strengthen country-level digital health governance and health workforce capacity to implement national digital health strategies, architectures, standards, information infrastructures, and health emergency preparedness technologies, and to equip participants with the skills needed to adopt a national planning approach to digital health.

The 100 Series Kamino serves as the foundation for the Kamino series. It provides a comprehensive overview of the data science lifecycle, covering data ingest, data wrangling, visualization, machine learning, text analysis, and storytelling. The concepts and applications of data science are demonstrated through narratives and real-life examples. Kamino is designed for anyone, regardless of data science knowledge or background.

Developed by the UN, for the UN, this digital platform — freely accessible anytime, anywhere from your computer, tablet or mobile phone — is intended to help inspire conversations, ideas, and action. This invaluable resource includes 21 tools, step-by-step directions, worksheets, case studies, and references, as well as a 27-question Diagnostic Assessment which provides actionable insight on every user’s readiness to innovate. Discover what kind of innovation profile you have: are you a “Collaborator,” a “Trailblazer,” or perhaps a “Implementor?”.