UNIDO-UNCTAD Global Call for Inclusive Digital Economy Solutions 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 18, 2025

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in coordination with the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) and United Nations Development Coordination Office (UNDCO), announce the launch of a Global Call for Solutions for an Inclusive Digital Economy.

This worldwide initiative, executed in collaboration with members of the Global Digital Compact Objective 2 Working Group, tackles the pressing necessity of selling equitable and inclusive entry to digital applied sciences and their associated alternatives. It aligns with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, guaranteeing that nobody is left behind.

The objective of the Open name for resolution is to determine and elevate modern, excessive-affect digital options, each confirmed and rising, that empower underserved communities and construct extra inclusive, safe, and sustainable digital economies worldwide, helpful for all.

Thematic Tracks

Submissions are invited throughout 5 thematic tracks:

• Inclusive Digital Innovation Skills & Entrepreneurial Talent Development: Solutions and group-degree initiatives constructing foundational abilities amongst ladies, youth, and marginalized teams in digital studying.
• MSME Empowerment & Local Digital Innovation: Solutions enabling MSMEs to entry digital markets, finance, and instruments—e.g., e-commerce, good manufacturing, and startup ecosystems.
• Enabling Policies & Regulatory Innovation: Solutions that assist predictable, clear, and inclusive digital coverage and regulatory environments to foster innovation and truthful competitors.
• Innovation Acceleration & Knowledge Sharing: Solutions that promote innovation acceleration, data sharing and expertise switch to assist native digital options in growing nations and make sure the safe, protected, and resilient functioning of digital programs throughout digital transformation.
• Stable and Resilient Digital Supply Chains: Solutions that assist steady and resilient digital provide chains by selling inclusive entry to digital services and products.

Benefits

Participants whose options are chosen will obtain:

• Global visibility and recognition via excessive-degree UN platforms, together with facet occasions on the eightieth United Nations General Assembly (UNGA.80) in New York (September 2025), and the UNIDO General Conference in Riyadh (November 2025)
• Strategic matchmaking alternatives with UN-led initiatives and companions, with the potential for inclusion within the Global Digital Compact (Objective 2) implementation roadmap and thru the UNIDO AIM Global Community Platform
• Access to technical assist and funding alternatives through the UN system and accomplice networks
• Featuring essentially the most modern options on the UNIDO Solutions Platform

Eligibility

• Open to innovators, entrepreneurs, personal sector organizations throughout industries, NGOs and worldwide organizations (together with, however not restricted to, UN organizations), which might be constructing applied sciences, enterprise fashions, or advancing initiatives that promote digital inclusion, resilience, and empowerment—notably for ladies, youth, MSMEs, and marginalized communities.

Evaluation Criteria

Solutions will probably be assessed by an impartial skilled jury comprising representatives from throughout the UN system, business and academia. Submissions will probably be evaluated in opposition to key standards, equivalent to:

• Alignment with Global Digital Compact Objective 2 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Scalability and Replicability
• Inclusivity and Accessibility

Application

Submit your resolution via the application type by August 18, 2025 for subsequent skilled jury assessment. Selected options will probably be knowledgeable by September 12, 2025.

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For extra data, go to UNIDO-UNCTAD Global Call.