Resources

Useful resources on digital innovation


  • The UN Innovation Toolkit
    Doing things differently, and doing different things: this was the driving force behind the creation of the United Nations Innovation Toolkit. As the United Nations faces a number of increasingly pressing issues, we need to be ready with the means to identify, create, iterate, scope, and scale new and inventive solutions.
  • IDEO – The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
    The Field Guide has everything you need to understand the people you’re designing for, to have more effective brainstorms, to prototype your ideas, and to ultimately arrive at more creative solutions.

  • UN Innovation Webinar Library
    The UN Innovation Network and many UN Entities regularly host webinars and discussions to uncover emerging good practices, showcase successful projects and learn about opportunity areas for innovation, data and digital transformation.

  • UNICEF – GenderTech Toolkit: Building Digital Solutions for, with, and by Girls
    This toolkit with best practices supports innovators, designers and implementers of digital products and services, to benefit girls and young women equally and help close the gender digital divide.

  • AI For Good Innovation Factory
    AI for Good Innovation Factory is an UN-based startup pitching/acceleration platform to help start-ups grow and scale their innovative AI-powered and SDG-driven solutions, by providing them with opportunities of business matchmaking, mentoring, fundraising and more.
  • UN Global Digital Compact
    The Global Digital Compact is expected to “outline shared principles for an open, free and secure digital future for all”. 

  • UN – Report of the Secretary-General Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 
    The report is aimed at, first, summarizing the state of play in relation to each of the Panel’s recommendations, incorporating the subsequent consultations on follow-up, and, second, setting out in the concluding observations the envisaged action points for the way forward.