We’re connecting UN colleagues and key partners across the UN system to exchange knowledge, approaches, and ideas in the UN 2.0 space.
Join the Communities of Practice in the UN 2.0 areas of Innovation, Behavioural Science, Digital, Data, Foresight and Culture to learn how to bring UN 2.0 into your work and teams.
Colleagues and partners connected across UN 2.0 Communities of Practice
Countries connected through Communities of Practice
First Flagship UN 2.0 Week co-hosted by Communities
The UN Innovation Network (UNIN) is an informal, collaborative community of innovators from across the UN.
UNIN promotes innovation and hosts UN Groups on specific topics like generative AI or innovation scaling. UNIN is open to innovators and colleagues from all UN system entities and external partners.
Policies and programmes require people, communities and decision makers to change their behaviours for impact.
The Behavioural Science Group facilitates learning around people-centred theories and approaches for SDG progress. It is open to the public and holds an annual flagship week of events.
UNDP, ITU, and the UN Innovation Network, with support from the Executive Office of the Secretary-General have teamed up to launch the UN Digital Community.
Digital is a cornerstone of the UN 2.0 Quintet of Change, and this community is set to drive digital transformation and build capacity across the UN family.
Data permeates all aspects of our work, and its power – harnessed responsibly – is critical to the global agendas we serve.
UN colleagues can sign up to the Data Strategy Community to receive updates on key data strategy highlights, events, trainings, job opportunities, use cases and other resources through its Knowledge Hub.
The Strategic Foresight Community and Knowledge Hub are open for all UN colleagues – run by the UN Futures Lab and coordinated by UNESCO.
For experienced practitioners and colleagues who want to explore, the community makes Strategic Foresight accessible to our teams, our day-to-day work & programmes.
The NewWork Culture Community is a grassroots community of UN colleagues – intrapreneurs – who are innovating, collaborating, and adopting new ways of working.
With the goal to shift our workplace culture and cultivate an agile, people-focused UN 2.0, NewWork amplifies transformative initiatives and good practices.
Combining foresight and data approaches, FAO provides an innovative dataset of long-term projections for agrifood systems.
UNEP partners with major players in the gaming industry. By placing green activations in games, they make use of their massive reach among young people for learning and acting in support of the environment.
FamPred is a forecasting tool utilizing machine learning techniques to project food insecurity 30 days in advance. It has been successfully validated in Yemen, Mali, Syria, and Nigeria.
An online psychosocial support platform providing mental health support in to over 10,300 cases in post-earthquake Syria.
An ITU-UNICEF initiative dedicated to connecting every school to the internet using AI, satellite imagery, and blockchain technology.
Florence 2.0 is a WHO developed digital human chatbot that can provide guidance on healthier lifestyle and mental health with topics such as stress management, how to eat right, be more active, quite tobacco, and vaccines.
The Extreme Lives project created short documentaries for at-risk youth in Asia. Using behavioral insights, the films aimed to change perceptions, boost self-control, and foster community connections.
To address the midwife crisis of care, UNFPA has developed trainings for midwives on management of labour and complications using virtual reality clinical environments and simulations.
The United Nations-wide Strategy on Gender Parity sets targets and monitors: leadership and accountability; senior management; recruitment and retention; creating an enabling environment; and Mission settings
Youth2030, the first-ever UN system-wide strategy on youth, guides joint UN action for and with young people globally.
With this strategy, UNDP puts forth a long-term vision to create a world in which digital is an empowering force for people and planet.
Practitioner’s Guide to Getting Started with Behavioural Science: Applications to UN Policies, Programmes and Administration
The UN Innovation Toolkit includes twenty-one tools, step-by-step directions, worksheets, case studies, references and a 27-question innovation readiness assessment – helping the UN to make innovative thinking the new normal.
UNESCO is committed to processing personal data in an accountable, non-discriminatory, and gender sensitive manner.
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