• United Nations

• Research and policy centers

The envisaged participants of this Capacity Building Programme are high-level officials from developing countries.

• United Nations
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Find a job or hire someone

As a forward-thinking policy-oriented entity, we lead innovation, actively exploring and advocating emerging technologies to transform public service delivery on a worldwide scale.

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Civil society research outfits

The Chief Digital Office (CDO) was created in 2019 to enable, accelerate and promote digital transformation within UNDP and throughout its programmatic work.

• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations

• Digital transformation

The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.

• United Nations
• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• Civic data
• Dashboards
• Open civic data

the UN Refugee Agency

• refugees
• United Nations

To help build a better future for refugees, UNHCR’s chat services suit their preferences, meet their needs, and safeguard their data

• refugees
• WhatsApp
• United Nations

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

• housing
• United Nations

A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF

• youth
• Ukraine
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Story-based campaigns

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) provides innovative learning solutions to individuals, organizations and institutions

• United Nations

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

• reports
• United Nations

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

• United Nations

Informing humanitarians worldwide

• United Nations

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• News and blogs

Humanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity

UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer networks

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities
• United Nations

• Playbooks and design principles
• Policy

With its partners, OCHA contributes to principled and effective humanitarian response through coordination, advocacy, policy, information management and humanitarian financing tools and services.

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap
• United Nations

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

A UN resolution in favor of ICTs for Sustainable Development

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

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

• food
• Zero hunger
• United Nations

• 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
• United Nations

• Accelerators

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

• United Nations

• 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.

• United Nations

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

• United Nations

"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

• United Nations

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• cities
• United Nations

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

​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.

• United Nations

UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects

• United Nations

• 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

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

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

• 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
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Innovation teams and labs

The Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab

• United Nations

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

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