We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger
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• Challenges

UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.

• youth
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• Accelerators

A global not-for-profit fund to achieve the catalytic possibilities of digital public infrastructure

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• Foundation initiatives
• Digital Public Infrastructure

To contribute to countering disinformation on COVID-19 and promoting healthy behaviours, UNESCO has produced a series of audio messages that can be freely used by radio stations from around the world.

• United Nations

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Radio

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Innovation teams and labs

Faced with the choice between privacy and safety on the Internet, between freely expressing themselves and the ethical use of information, the media and technology – women, men and young boys and girls need new types of competencies.

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• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

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• Access to information
• Holidays

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

"The United Nations is a diplomatic and political international organization with the intended purpose of maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and serving as a center for coordinating the actions of member nations." - Wikipedia

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​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• United Nations

• Participatory democracy

The United Nations Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities.

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an initiative of UNDP and the Slovak Ministry of Finance, to support cities in the application of innovative approaches

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab

• United Nations

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.

• Decent work and economic growth
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• United Nations Development Programme

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

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• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects

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• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

The CSAP uses interactive radio shows (radio dialogues in combination with SMS feedback) to enable citizens to hold their leaders to account by asking the hard questions

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring