Project Witness is a participatory method. It uses science fiction to create space for alternative development paths and policy options to emerge through interaction and structured conversations between different society segments. It helps ground […]

The Main Event of UNDP Istanbul Innovation Days took place between 23-24 March. It included 17 exciting sessions and over 60 speakers. Participants joined from all over the world and some fantastic Q&A’s took place. […]

“Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. i suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our […]

“Localizing aid” is increasingly becoming an issue of focus within philanthropy circles, with the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrating the mounting urgency for a new kind of philanthropy that is intentional about empowering local founders. […]

The power of the human imagination to predict the future is awe-inspiring. In the novels of Jules Verne and Philip K. Dick, and films that predicted the future of news media, such as Sidney Lumet’s […]

In response to travel restrictions and WHO advice aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19, UNDP Istanbul Innovation Days 2021 is being held entirely online. We’ve always seen #IID21 as a global showcase of UNDP’s […]

For too long, ‘the western development model’ was seen as the standard, and ‘the way to do development’. In more recent times, that thinking has changed. Following on from the Make Trade Fair movement that […]

Today, Web Summit announced that it will license its industry leading conference software, and revealed its first ever customer: UNDP Istanbul Innovation Days. The software, which has been built in-house for nearly a decade, has […]

Payal Arora, digital anthropologist and author of The Next Billion Users, talks about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in a thought-provoking piece for restoftheworld.org entitled AI isn’t going to save us. Humans, Arora […]

On International Women’s Day (IWD) we celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness about women’s equality, lobby for accelerated gender parity, and campaign for the elimination of violence. IWD takes place on Monday 08 March each year. […]

Su Kahumbu is a mobile phone application wizard who creates apps for smallholder farmers in Africa. The wizardry comes in the simplicity of her tools. The latest of which is iCow. iCow is aimed at […]

Combining the latest digital technology with the tradition of science-fiction and the imagination of the crowd, Witness is a project from Edgeryders that aims to bring people together to solve complex problems in unorthodox ways, […]

An exciting new session has just been added to the Main Event of #IID21 – a conversation with Alaa Salah and Alicia Garza. ’From social movements to shifting power dynamics – lessons from the trenches […]

With the pandemic raging, thoughts about digital transformation and how best to bridge the digital divide have been at the forefront of many minds. Nowhere more so than in Asia, where nearly 52 percent of […]

Residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone are about to get their water supply in part from an innovative new project spearheaded by the first female mayor of the capital, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE. The collaborative project brings […]

When we began programming sessions for #IID21, we scoured the planet looking for edge-thinkers and doers who could spark the imagination and help us turn ideas into concrete actions. Little did we know that this […]