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Istanbul Innovation Days 2025 | Institutions in the Age of AI Agents: Two Scenarios
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 from the conversations on institutional innovation. From reimagining partnerships to leveraging frontier technologies, these stories showcase opportunities to rethink and transform institutional paradigms. In our […]
Istanbul Innovations Days 2025 | Reimagining Institutions in the Age of AI Agents
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 […]
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 […]
Green Innovation Takes the Spotlight as BOOST Demo Days Kick Off in Ukraine and Moldova
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Europe and Central is set to spotlight a new generation of green innovators this autumn as the BOOST: […]
UNDP and Exponential Science Foundation Partner to Develop Government Blockchain Academy to Advance Public Sector Innovation
September 15, 2025 – Istanbul/London — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Exponential Science Foundation have announced a partnership to develop the Government […]
[Part 1] Behavioral science: One way towards a smarter policy action to reduce air pollution
UNDP North Macedonia and its AccLab team embarked on a journey to understand how using behavioral sciences and experiments (nudges) can help us tackle air […]
M4EG Partner Dialogue: What’s needed for city transformation?
The Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG) initiative held a Partner Dialogue in Istanbul on 28 February 2023, bringing together representatives from the EU and UNDP and […]
Can LinkedIn data help us measure the glass ceiling?
Gender disparities persist globally, particularly in positions of power and higher pay, where women face cultural and professional barriers to advancement, which are often referred […]
UNDP North Macedonia: Citizen-centered financial management at the local level
On a daily basis, we receive toxic news about problems in the local finance – poor property tax collection, low fiscal effort, limited fiscal capacities, […]
UNDP Serbia at the 2022 Data Science Conference Europe
Big data from satellites, mobile phones, and social media, among other tools, allows researchers to build on or replace traditional methods of acquiring socioeconomic data. […]
Dynamically managing Urban Transformation portfolios: Our M4EG journey
Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG), a joint EU and UNDP initiative focused on reimagining urban and local spaces, is running a Portfolio Journey with 10 […]
How to make a portal for startup development: A Serbian experience
Reposted from UNDP Serbia. How to build an Internet portal which offers start-ups simple and user-friendly information needed for their further business development? This was […]
UNDP North Macedonia creates biowaste audit dashboard
The biowaste audit dashboard visualizes how commercial entities working in the capital city of North Macedonia – Skopje, particularly in the HORECA (Hotels, Restaurants and […]
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