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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 and CPI partner to launch new Urban Imaginaries programme in Eastern Partnership countries
Supporting cities to take a more complexity-informed approach to urban challenges. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Centre for Public Impact (CPI) have […]
Digital by default for people and planet
May 17 marks the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD). In today’s age of an ever-evolving array of technologies, it speaks of a revolution, […]
Tadamon launches accelerator to support emergency response led by civil society organizations
Civil society organizations across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa can apply by June 10, 2022, to receive access to training and funding fast-track their […]
Testimonies from the joint EU & UNDP initiative Mayors for Economic Growth (Part 1)
I am standing on a podium in Baku, Azerbaijan, in front of 46 city Mayors, gathered together from all corners of the country. There is […]
BOOST announces selected champions in its Women Innovators program
55 regional champions will take part in BOOST’s new cohort to advance gender equality in Europe and Central Asia UNDP Europe and Central Asia’s BOOST, a regional […]
Systems lens into the cities: can we be “on time”?
In nowadays world immersed in multiple crises and in growing uncertainty, where the situation and dynamics change even on hourly basis, we should all embrace […]
Accelerating women’s digital inclusion through experimentation in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has made progress in gender equality in all sectors, but challenges remain. Young women in Kazakhstan are not well represented in STEM (science, technology, […]
The value of a tree and why we need to rethink how we measure it
Cut down, an average tree could be worth up to a thousand BAM. It’s simple math: no. of cubic meters x the price of m3 of […]
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