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SDG Blockchain Accelerator: Driving SDG Impact in 2025
In 2025, the SDG Blockchain Accelerator delivered 46 pilot- and implementation-ready solutions, with 12 already entering real-world testing. Developed across two global cohorts, 70% of these solutions are embedded within ongoing national and regional programmes – positioning them to move beyond standalone experiments and into active use. The SDG Blockchain […]
UN Blockchain Talks #6: What real supply chains demand from traceability systems
By the time a product or service reaches the end user, most of the difficult work has already been done elsewhere. Someone had to collect […]
UN Blockchain Talks #5: What Bhutan’s national digital identity tells us about privacy and implementation
During the fifth session of the UN Blockchain Talks series, the discussion moved beyond whether blockchain can support digital identity. A more useful examination was […]
How four Ukrainian cities are seeking their future during the war
On the eve of the fifth year of full-scale war, four Ukrainian cities have taken on what seems like an impossible task: to determine their […]
What is the portfolio approach and how does it work? Ukraine’s experience
In 2025, four Ukrainian cities – Khmelnytskyi, Bucha, Zhytomyr, and Slavutych – joined the Mission-Oriented Economy local transformation programme, part of the EU-funded Mayors for […]
UNDP Serbia: How can women become winners of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
We live in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is rapidly transforming the economy and our way of life. Artificial intelligence, automation and […]
Armenian communities test human-centered design for improved service delivery under the M4EG
Urban Imaginaries is a programme that supports towns and cities to reimagine local economic development and governance through new tools. Urban Imaginaries is one programme […]
From ‘SimCity’ to better urban reality
How “digital twins” of real cities can help guide innovation and transform our lives As a child, I loved playing SimCity, a popular video game […]
BOOST x Kosovo acceleration programme announces grant awardees
BOOST x Kosovo, an acceleration programme aiming to promote green transition, announced the grant awardees for the first edition of BOOST programme in Kosovo. The […]
Programme report: What BOOST’s women innovators learned
In 2022, we worked with 55 changemakers from 16 countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia on harnessing innovation and technology to advance gender […]
Dream Labs: UNDP North Macedonia fuels citizen engagement for policymaking
Reposted from UNDP North Macedonia. Imagination versus & policymaking The world faces a deficit of social imagination’, with people finding it easier to imagine negative rather than […]
SafeYOU, an Armenian app, is taking on gender-based violence around the world
Two years ago, Mariam Torosyan, a human rights lawyer and social entrepreneur, founded SafeYOU, a social impact startup, in a bid to curb domestic and gender-based […]
Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) Facility launches Urban Learning Center for municipalities in Eastern Partnership countries
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched today a new ecosystem of learning opportunities to reimagine urban and local spaces […]
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