In our previous blog we argued that digital transformation is not just about technology but also about culture and people. Putting digital transformation into practice is not an easy job and one important aspect of truly transformational change is the skills and capabilities of people and organizations. …

Sharing our new report here Our role as an innovation team is to undertake continuous research and development to improve our work at the UNDP and to ensure we impact and despite talking a lot about collective intelligence, we actually find it very hard to practice ourselves. At the UNDP…

Data-for-Policy: The need of the hour We increasingly need to make decisions in an environment of radical uncertainty. Little wonder policymakers, political leaders, civil society organizations and citizens are increasingly turning to and realizing the value of data to support that decision making. During the Covid-19 pandemic governments globally leveraged various kinds of data to shape…

It’s very easy to talk and write about how digital can change people’s lives for the better and how digital transformation can change governments to make them more efficient, effective and transformative. Most of us have experienced digital transformation especially during Covid-19 where so much of life went online and…

Launching our new Sensemaking toolkit, templates and DIY training It’s not uncommon when working in an organization to be very busy, to have a lot of different streams of work happening and to be very output focused with most time being spent on managing and organizing streams of work and…

By Apichaya O-In, Stan van der Leemputte, and Hadee Hamidong Cross posted from Thailand Social Innovation Platform Bustling food markets in Thailand’s southern border provinces are an integral part of the local food system. They are a real-time indicator for social cohesion, food security, and economic prosperity in society. However…

4 lessons learned from running an innovation competition to accelerate the transition towards a Circular Economy of plastics in ASEAN Morgane Rivoal, Lan Hoang Phan, Alex Oprunenco (UNDP) This blog is the third in a series unpacking what a transition to a Circular Economy would mean for Viet Nam (Part…

Authors: Luong Nguyen, Brent Wellsch, Alex Oprunenco, Shumin Liu, and Ida Uusikyla This is the second blog in the series documenting our learnings as part of our regional initiative around plastic pollution and transition to a circular economy. In the first blog we looked at the role of portfolio in…

By Enrico Gaveglia and Shumin Liu The Regional Innovation Centre of UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub and the UNDP Philippines together with data science company Dataverz have explored the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the UNDP sensemaking process. …