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UNDP convenes high-level event in Paris on scaling blockchain for good
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will convene Scaling Blockchain for Public Good, a two-day high-level event bringing together blockchain ecosystem leaders, governments, development organizations, and academic institutions to explore the practical pathways through which blockchain technologies can strengthen public systems and support sustainable development. The programme is organized by UNDP’s Alternative Finance Lab (AltFinLab), a flagship initiative focused on exploring and scaling innovative financing and technology solutions for […]
Blockchain Talks #8 | Money’s New Rails: Stablecoins and the Last Mile of Financial Inclusion
The eighth session of the UN Blockchain Talks used the story of Mariama, a fictional trader in The Gambia, to bring the discussion on stablecoins […]
Blockchain Talks #7 | Environmental sustainability and blockchain: where does it actually help?
Environmental sustainability has become one of blockchain’s favorite talking points. Even so, carbon credits, drought insurance, climate adaptation loans, renewable energy certificates, and biodiversity finance […]
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 […]
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 […]
Agorà — a transformational dance with urban systems
Agorà is a City Transformation Portfolio — a template that can be applied in any city system for designing and managing pandemic response and renewal […]
If not a unicorn, then what? The secret to what makes urban transformation happen
In an increasingly urbanized planet, understanding cities has never been so high on the agenda. The uniqueness of each city as complex sociotechnical systems is […]
Presence Anytime Anywhere – Transforming the future of work for UNDP
How do we collaborate and communicate effectively online? How can we enable informed decision making in this new distributed reality? How can we ensure that […]
Presence anytime anywhere
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of the networks linking the world together and challenged us to reimagine how we work together and maintain […]
Bringing Tony Stark’s tools to UNDP’s data-driven initiatives
The Presence Anytime Anywhere (PAA) project is exploring solutions to this problem, using a new technology called spatial computing that supports 3D data visualization.
UNDP and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announce the winning participants for BOOST’s Polish Challenge Fund
UNDP Europe and Central Asia and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today the selected participants of BOOST’s Polish Challenge Fund, which brings together […]
Agora videocast: Nora Bateson and Luca Gatti on Covid-19 and Thinking Through Complexity
UNDP Europe and Central Asia launched a new videocast series on using systems thinking to solve development challenges. In this opening episode of the series […]
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, […]
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