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Blockchain for Public Good: Insights from UNDP’s Paris Convenings
Insights from UNDP’s Paris Convenings
Where does AI actually help a city? Ten municipalities spent three days finding out
Inside the CEF x AI Bootcamp in Podgorica, Montenegro – and what it taught us about building AI capability in local governments The CEF x AI Bootcamp, held […]
AI x Cities webinar series: Session 1 – Starting where cities actually are
While information about AI is abundant, space to make sense of what it means in practice is not. That gap between the global AI conversation […]
UNDP and the Stellar Development Foundation extend partnership to scale proven digital payment solutions
UNDP and the Stellar Development Foundation extend their partnership to scale blockchain-based digital payment solutions across country office programmes.
What blockchain VDAP opens for UNDP colleagues
What blockchain VDAP opens for UNDP colleagues Connecting internal talent with live blockchain and AI workstreamsJune 26, 2026 | NEW TECHNOLOGIES, PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT UNDP teams […]
Individual, collective and intermediated: three roads to data empowerment
In this post, we’re diving deeper into the question of how to exercise control over one’s data, how such ‘control taking’ would work in practice, […]
UNDP and Koç Holding announce selected participants for Civil Society Technology Challenge
UNDP Europe and Central Asia and Koç Holding announced today the selected participants of BOOST’s Civil Society Technology Challenge, which aims to accelerate the digital […]
UNDP and the Slovak Ministry of Finance announce selected participants for BOOST’s Innovation Challenge Fund
UNDP Europe and Central Asia and the Slovak Ministry of Finance announced today the selected participants of BOOST’s Innovation Challenge Fund, which brings together innovators […]
Innovation at UNDP: changing ourselves, asking different types of questions
The shifting ground around us, a different type of demand from our counterparts and the availability of new organisational assets has gradually shifted the needle […]
Public spaces as places for human connection lie at the heart of human well-being
The components of urban systems, from waste management to transport and parks, are interconnected and dynamic. Intervening to create change in any one of these […]
New UNDP platform BOOST will use social impact innovation to tackle Covid-19 challenges
To tackle the long-term effects of Covid-19, UNDP Europe and Central Asia is launching BOOST, a regional acceleration program for social impact innovation. It will support […]
The pandemic urges us to rethink our stance on data
The current pandemic – the first of the algorithmic age – has not only shown the vulnerabilities of our social, economic and health systems, it has also […]
Can we use strategic innovation to tackle development challenges?
In the last few years there has been a growing interest from the public, private and development sectors in adopting a systems lens to develop […]
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