A joint initiative of Purpose and the United Nations, Verified is a crisis communications model designed to adeptly respond to intersecting crises in an era of prolific mis- and disinformation. Heavily based on behavioral science insights, it cuts through the noise around global crises and deliver critical fact-based advice and information.
The Reference Death Archive is a global repository of deaths with matched pathology-based biomarkers, WHO verbal autopsy data, and independently assigned reference causes of death, designed to provide high-quality evidence to improve, validate, and standardize verbal autopsy methods and algorithms for cause of death assertion.
The Data For Now initiative (Data4Now), aims to develop countries’ capacities to deliver the information needed by local and national policy and decision makers to design effective development strategies and policy programmes to achieve the 2030 Agenda and make a positive difference in people’s lives. To this end, it supports members of the National Statistical Systems in participating countries to leverage innovative sources, technologies, methods and partnerships for the streamlined production and dissemination of better, more timely and disaggregated data for sustainable development. In this context, it also supports effective collaboration between members of the National Statistical System, local, national, and global partners from intergovernmental organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector. Visit our website for more information: https://unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/capacity-development/data-for-now/
This report presents the outcomes and strategic insights from UNHCR’s Digital Gender Inclusion and Innovation Bootcamps conducted in 2023 and 2024. These initiatives were designed to address the persistent gender digital divide affecting forcibly displaced and stateless women and girls, who often face compounded barriers to digital access.
This policy brief explains how strategic foresight can inform and guide public sectors in anticipating unexpected challenges and effectively harnessing AI technologies. Such forward-thinking methodologies are critical to mitigating risks and harnessing AI’s transformative power in advancing the SDGs.
Scaling innovation for children needs more than just creativity – it requires a structured, evidence-based approach. The 5-Dimensional (5D) Innovation Framework, developed by the UNICEF Office of Innovation, ensures that solutions are rigorously assessed across key areas essential for successful scaling: innovation, business model, impact, scalability and risk. It helps decision-makers formulate strategic choices, increasing the likelihood of successful scaling, and provides an objective basis for discontinuing support for an innovation when necessary.
A cutting-edge immersive museum at the intersection of art, technology, and impact on a mission to imagine and build a positive future. We inspire hope for the future through enchanting immersive experiences, technological innovation, and socially engaged discussion. Aligned with the United Nations 2030 agenda, we foster imaginative solutions that drive real-world change. We center the imaginations of historically marginalized communities, fostering a vibrant space for intercultural exchange and world-class arts entertainment.
The Digital Government Academy equips civil servants with the skills and knowledge needed to prototype, implement, operate and expand the use of user-centric digital government systems.
In an era marked by complex and interwoven crises, the role of the United Nations in preparing for the future has never been more critical. This review of UN DESA’s foresight and preparedness efforts shows how the Department’s economic and demographic forecasts, capacity development programmes, and work towards accelerating an inclusive and just transition help governments and people make strategic choices to shape and prepare for the future they want.
The UNDRR and WMO have developed a Global Observatory for EWS Financial Tracking to support the UN Secretary-General’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative. This tool systematically tracks investments in Early Warning Systems (EWS) using a standardized taxonomy, transforming how stakeholders manage, visualize, and analyze data.
Leadership, Orientation and Guidance for Operational Support (LOGOS) is a flagship programme that equips the next generation of field leaders, particularly prospective Chiefs/Directors of Mission Support (C/DMS), to lead effectively in complex, field-based environments.
Agrifood systems are undergoing a transformation with the aim to provide safer, more affordable, and healthier diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner while delivering just and equitable livelihoods: a key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, this transformation needs to be executed in the global context of major challenges facing the food and agriculture sectors, with drivers such as climate change, population growth, urbanization, and natural resources depletion compounding these challenges.
Public space with digital tools for data consultation and analysis, online learning and training, and evidence-based decision-making on development issues.
“Transformative Spaces” is a collective initiative across UN partners whose goal is to convene “safe and inclusive spaces for connection, dialogue, co-creation and transformation” and amplify these across different workspaces and networks of engagement and dialogue.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a sub-programme to establish a Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs. This network of in-country innovation hubs established by the FAO and country institutions, will support farmers and value chain actors, especially youth and women, to increase their competitiveness by accelerating the development and uptake of digital innovations.
Artificial intelligence (AI) language models present a promising solution to make Earth system science user-friendly for experts and non-experts, a critical step towards effective climate action.
In Indonesia, people with disability are often underrepresented, left behind and lack equal access to basic services, including health and education. Additional challenges such as social stigma surrounding disability add to the struggles faced by those who require important information to make key decisions.
The UNU Global AI Network seeks to enhance international cooperation among stakeholders to promote AI for an inclusive, responsible, and sustainable digital future for all. It also facilitates the inclusion of voices from the Global South in global discussions on AI. It unites the expertise of academia, the innovation of the private sector, the foresight of policymakers, and the engagement of civil society.
Agrivoltaic systems are innovative threefold land-use systems that can provide food, water and electricity to local populations while increasing the resilience of the agricultural sector to climate change.
In 2017, the government of Argentina set as a priority the formalization of domestic work through registration to social security – a human right and a key means of accessing decent work. The ILO worked with the Ministry of Labour to design and implement a behavioural intervention. The project started with a diagnosis of the behavioural drivers of non-registration, based on which we drafted a letter to employers asking them to comply with their legal obligation to register the worker. In a randomized field experiment, the Ministry of Labour sent the letters to around 100,000 households, and this was compared to a control group of 80,000 households that received no letter. The letter led to an increase of 8.9% in the rate of registration. The experience showed the potential of behavioural science as a tool to accelerate progress to SDG 8.8, and changed the lives of domestic workers.
The UN Digital ID is a unique identity for each United Nations staff, from onboarding to retirement. Having a unique identification across the UN system reduces data fragmentation and duplication, with the potential to simplify and streamline processes and transactions across all business functions between staff and organizations, and also between UN organizations themselves. As a data exchange platform, Digital ID will allow staff from participating organizations to share any of their HR and other personal information with complete visibility, consent and security.
The ICAO Innovation Fair will allow representatives of States, international organizations, industry, private sector, academia, aviation research, United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to have substantive conversations on innovation in aviation. This edition will focus on how the experimentation and development of innovative digital technologies or services for aviation bring value to the sector and contribute to States achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The World Food Programme has unveiled its inaugural data strategy, marking a significant milestone in leveraging data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
AIRIS is a global initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and co-hosted by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of the Republic of Korea, with support from international regulatory bodies and academic partners. The symposium brings together regulators, policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, and technical experts from more than 50 countries, creating a collaborative platform for shaping AI governance in health. AIRIS was established to address the urgent need for harmonised regulatory frameworks for artificial intelligence in health.
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