We learn, do, and engage with humility to drive innovation embedded in local knowledge systems in Asia and the Pacific.
Bangkok, Thailand
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This fortnight on the Intel we ask:
🔴 How can the Pacific Resilience Facility have the greatest impact?
Our expert contributors pitch in:
⚫ Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility’s Sophie Lewis
⚫ CoTerran’s Michael Copage
⚫ The Lab’s Blake Johnson
Explore their three competing views, here 👉 devintelligencelab.com/intel…
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At the Circular Pathways for Cities session this World Cities Summit #WCS2026, we heard from professionals working in different areas of the circular economy on the conditions needed to scale circular solutions.
Insights and highlights in our latest blog: go.undp.org/psE
We're exploring the role of Digitalization and AI for the transformation of Indonesia’s villages with @Ditjen_PPDT & @UNDPIndonesia.
Our AI-augmented sense-making process helped connect and collectively leverage programs and investments for people-led village development.
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Governments need to get back their mojo. Spoke to @fionaharvey for @guardian about why believing we can govern is the starting point for an economy built around the common good. Link in replies.
#JobAlert 📢Many people reached out about an exciting new role in our team estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/…
So we decided to offer an “Ask me anything” session this coming Monday, 29 June at 2 pm Bangkok.
You can register here: undp.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
@UNDPDigital @UNDPasiapac
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Concluded my visit to Indonesia this evening with a meeting with H.E. Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and the Nat Economic Council (DEN) on Indonesia’s ambitious digital transformation agenda.
We focused in on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), which is rapidly expanding to a national rollout.
With DPI and the right policy and governance frameworks in place, we exchanged good global practice on AI to extend public services, improve efficiency, and support inclusive growth.
Signed agreement with @UNDPIndonesia to partner w DEN and critical sectors on key aspects of this agenda.
Join our team as Digital Transformation Specialist (DPI/GovTech)!
📍Bangkok, Thailand
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@UNDPDigital
Digital tech can be transformative to drive circular economies, if done right.
Our latest blog explores how and features practitioners who design with intent, a clarity of direction and real understanding of what people need.
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medium.com/@undp.innovation/…
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Is technology an integrated driver or just a late “add-on” to your city’s circular economy programmes?
This June 16th, Louisa Mammeri will be in 🇸🇬 to discuss @UNDP's "Digital by Design" approach, with examples from the ground @UNDPasiapac!
Learn more: go.undp.org/UNDPWCS26
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This fortnight on the Intel we ask:
🔴 Is long-term planning still a viable strategy or just a comfort blanket?
Our expert contributors pitch in:
⚫ UNDP’s, Millie Begovic
⚫ Development Policy Lab’s, Terence Wood
⚫ The Asia Foundation’s, Yasuhiko Matsuda
Explore their three competing views, here 👉 devintelligencelab.com/intel…
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Why do 70% of #digital transformation projects in the #public sector fail to reach their goals?
The problem is rarely the technology itself but #structural conditions in which digital transformation exists.
undp.org/blog/beneath-surfac…
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Discussed wth Mahdi Amin, Adviser to 🇧🇩 Prime Minister @trahmanbnp how @UNDP_BD & Gov can leverage #AI, innovation, & global experience to deliver on national priorities. Excited to focus on Centre of Govt transformation for policy/finance coherence.
@UNDPasiapac @stefanliller
A key point in @StanfordHAI's #AI index is on #sovereignty: National AI strategies & state-backed investments in supercomputing are rising. Open-source models from the global majority are now outpacing Europe and approaching the US on GitHub, leading to more diverse models.
Introducing the #AIIndex2026: Our most comprehensive, independently sourced data analysis of AI’s trajectory, with a clear-eyed assessment of the critical gaps that remain. As AI advances rapidly, can the systems built around it keep up? Explore the data: hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/20…
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The relevance of 'stack thinking' to the work of governments and other organisations. 60 years since the Internet was created many of its design principles are still poorly understood. This piece describes their relevance for everything from AI to law and education, the role of centres of governments to regulation. Most public institutions are still stuck in late 19th-century silo structures: these are some of the alternatives. geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/s…
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Startups in India and Indonesia are bypassing expensive Silicon Valley chips to build "frugal AI" models that run on low-end devices and offline hardware restofworld.org/2026/frugal-…
Systems change doesn't behave neatly and scalable. Tanya Kak from @RNP_Foundation asks: Where does “scale thinking” make sense, and where must we re-imagine our way of thinking about progress and innovation?
And how might philanthropic orgs engage?
ssir.org/articles/entry/does…
Engineers and physicists studied how to coordinate networks of researchers around Grand Challenges and found: you need top-down mission framing; bottom-up R&D and system-level support that connects political priorities with technical realities.
issues.org/grand-challenge-f…
"From Delhi, [AI for social] impact looks neat. It fits into slides, metrics, and carefully chosen words. In interior Meghalaya, it looks nothing like that."
A view on transformation of public services outside of capitals and headquarters by @WadhwaniAI
medium.com/@social_17543/imp…
Post #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, @KapoorAstha looks at AI governance & how it must move beyond state-centric oversight & corporate self-regulation. She lays out new forms of sovereignty defined by the communities that build, use and are affected by AI.
thewire.in/tech/ai-sovereign…
