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SDG Blockchain Accelerator Welcomes Sui as Technical Partner to Advance SDG‑Aligned Pilots
Sui’s high-performance blockchain will power pilots advancing censorship-resistant access to healthcare and other critical development initiatives. September 29, 2025 — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is expanding the SDG Blockchain Accelerator, a global initiative that helps scale blockchain and AI solutions to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through […]
UNDP Releases 2024 Slovak Transformation Fund Annual Report
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Europe and Central Asia has released its 2024 Annual Report for the Slovak Transformation Fund (STF), spotlighting how […]
Istanbul Innovation Days | Blockchain-based solutions in action
Following the Istanbul Innovation Days held in March 2025, we are releasing a series of articles capturing key insights, bold ideas and solutions that emerged […]
Smart Futures: Harnessing Blockchain and AI for Sustainable Innovation
In Berlin, on 12-13 June 2025, the Smart Futures event convened a global community of innovators, policymakers and technologists to explore how frontier technologies – […]
Reimagining urban finance: How Western Balkan innovators are transforming cities
Imagine earning city credits for walking to work, helping choose where trees get planted through your phone, or discovering your morning coffee supports local culture. […]
Crowdfunding SMEs for SDGs – and how we do it in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina…
This year, our efforts are geared toward seeing to what extent crowdfunding can help small entrepreneurs accessing funding in places where it is prohibitively expensive […]
Mašenjka Feels Happy, From A to W, Twelve Campaigns Will Go Out Crowdfunding!
After two months of intensive work with the Crowdfunding Academy team, twelve teams are ready with their campaigns. Check out the teams and their videos, […]
UNDP Moldova is keeping the doctor away from more than 3000 school-age children
UNDP Moldova explains the challenges and lessons from their mission of increasing children fruit consumption through their first crowdfunding campaign.
Crowdfunding is not (only) about the money
From conducting a successful campaign to setting up Crowdfunding Academy and UNDP Alternative Finance Lab, helping to launch more than 15 campaigns in 10+ countries […]
Crowdfunding As a Potential Behemoth: A Billion Euro Industry Waiting To Happen
Zagreb Crowdfunding Convention comes as a manifestation of the Crowdfunding Academy’s goals to contribute to the development of a crowdfunding market in Croatia. It’s the […]
UNDP Alternative Financing Lab – the next big thing is a lot of small (and smart things)!
From blockchain to crowdfunding, Alternative Finance Lab mobilized over EUR 3 million across a series of experiments with new financial mechanisms.
UNDPCrowd: A new kid on the block?
The same as for software developers, we, development professionals, need a paradigm shift in how we do work, how that work gets financed and how […]
Tour Around the World with Global Crowdfunding (part two)
We are travelling around the world and meeting teams and projects of Global Crowdfunding Academy. All of them wish to make a change in their […]
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