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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 what kind of identity system would give people greater control over their data without making implementation harder for governments and service providers. Hosted under the […]
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 […]
City Imaginarium: Bringing Urban Futures into Public Spaces?
What kind of cities do we want to live in – and how do we get there? Launched on World Cities Day (31 October 2025), City Imaginarium went […]
Three Winners at BOOST x CEF Green Urban Tech Sprint Demo Day
Ten startups and non-profits from across Europe and Central Asia gathered virtually on 25 February 2026 for the BOOST x City Experiment Fund (CEF) Green […]
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 […]
The European Union provides EUR 1.8 million for Crisis Response and Renewal in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova
A financial top-up under the auspices of the Mayors for Economic Growth Facility supports the crisis immediate response and recovery & long-term renewal of Moldovan […]
27 mayors with visions to move beyond “business as usual”
In our previous story „Imagine the city we want,“ we introduced the Mayors for Economic Growth (M4EG), a joint EU and UNDP initiative that supports […]
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