UN Innovation Network
NewWork hosted a series of three dialogues aimed at creating cross-entity communities where employees could exchange ideas about the Next Normal at the UN and collaboratively shape our future workp...
In this episode, Flavia Reale, Gabriela Spaizmann, and Anna-Lena Vinke from the Innovation team of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) share their inn...
Real innovations emerge not from a single idea, but from recognizing opportunities or challenges. Design thinking is a human-centered approach that focuses on creating lovable, feasible, and viable...
In this episode, Dr. Jeffery Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at Michigan State University, presents the Hub for Innovation at Michigan State and explains how they ...
In this episode, a team from Abeam Consulting introduces the Kaizen approach to eliminate waste and enhance productivity through targeted improvements in organizational processes and activities. Wh...
As AI integrates into the systems institutions rely on, everyone is left questioning everything. Generally, when AI acts autonomously, how do we keep it accountable?
In the ninth UN Blockchain Ta...
This session explores how behavioural science can help increase the uptake and effective use of AI among UN and government colleagues.
The discussion focuses on how behavioural science can suppor...
This session explores how behavioural science can help understand and support human agency in an AI-powered future, particularly as countries prepare for the transformative potential of AI.
Featur...
This session explores how AI and behavioural science are being applied in digital, operational and consumer-facing systems.
Featuring examples from DGC, ESCWA, UNEP and UNITAR, the session examine...
This session with Sanmi Koyejo (Stanford University) explores how AI systems can be evaluated, tested and adapted across diverse global contexts.
Drawing on themes from AI evaluation across differ...
This session explores how model behaviour varies across languages, cultures and contexts, and what this means for equitable AI adoption in low- and middle-income countries.
Featuring perspectives...
This session explores how AI is expanding the methodological toolkit for behavioural science, from measurement, prediction and simulation to personalised interventions, understanding heterogeneity,...
The High-level Opening session of UN Behavioural Science Week 2026 explores how AI, data and behavioural science can shape the future of the UN.
Opening remarks were delivered by Amina Mohammed, D...
This session explored how behavioural science can help make sense of the human and practical dimensions of AI adoption in real-world development and institutional contexts.
Featuring case studies ...
This session explored how AI is being used to understand human behaviour in complex policy contexts. Opening with reflections from Joaquin Navajas (Torcuato Di Tella University) on collective intel...
This session explores how behavioural data science, simulation and synthetic data can help the UN better understand behaviour, needs and decision-making across diverse contexts.
Featuring opening ...
The High-level Opening session of UN Behavioural Science Week 2026 explored how AI, data and behavioural science can shape the future of the UN.
Opening remarks were delivered by Amina Mohammed, D...
How can behavioural science help us understand and address behavioural challenges in an AI-powered future?
This introductory session introduced core behavioural science concepts and practical appr...
UN Blockchain Talks #8 explored whether stablecoins can support financial inclusion at the last mile, using a scenario-based discussion centered on Mariama, a fictional character representing real ...
The UN 2.0 Digital and Data Solutions Expo is your chance to see practical digital and data solutions in action, hear directly from the teams behind them, and connect with colleagues working on sim...