UNDP Accelerator Labs – We design, test and scale solutions to complex issues

We design, test and scale solutions to complex issues

Faced with one of the most rapidly declining populations in the world, Serbia needs to redefine what it takes to be a thriving, productive society. We bring a new framing to depopulation, one of the most significant global trends of the future.

Depopulation Data Challenge

As an example of collective intelligence in action, we established new partnerships that leveraged alternative data sources – such as mobile data, social networks data, job ads data, satellite data – to shine a new light on the complex challenge of depopulation in Serbia.

Digital Nomads

We are investigating the value that digital nomads and other types of digital professionals bring to the development of a place, and testing how to maximize it.

Circular Migration

We are exploring how to rebuild trust and develop innovative ways to bridging Serbian society at home and abroad. We work with the Returning Point to co-create solutions that accelerate new links with Serbia’s diaspora.

Can Artificial Intelligence and satellite images help make our rivers free of waste?

Blog by Slobodan Markovic (Digital Advisor), Zorica Korac (Environment Portfolio Manager) and Drasko Draskovic (Head of Exploration) on the use of machine learning and satellite data to detect illegal waste sites within a project with the European Space Agency

New findings on depopulation in Serbia presented

Press release Depopulation Data Challenge Winners

Returning Point digital guides for Serbian diaspora and returnees

Accelerator Lab and Returning point collaboration resulting in digital guides for return migrants, created using various tools from the design thinking methodology. As a personalized experience delivered through a web-based product, the guides provide accurate information about administration, business, and social integration upon return to Serbia

Implementing a Data-Driven Approach to Tackling Depopulation

Blog by Drasko Draskovic (Head of Exploration) on our ideas and motivation behind the Depopulation Data Challenge

Deep demonstrations: the journey begins

Blog by Millie Begovic (Strategic Innovation Advisor) and Søren Vester Haldrup (Innovation Facility Fund Manager) on the launch of a new approach to supporting strategic innovation in UNDP

Returning Point WorkFromHome initiative – What does WFH mean, when Home is Serbia?

Accelerator Lab and Returning point collaboration on an online campaign “Work from Home, Work from Serbia,” in response to the general movement of remote work as well as in the face of the global COVID 19 pandemic

Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development

Report by Nesta and the Accelerator Labs Network setting out how governments and organizations involved in global development are increasingly mobilizing not just money, but also intelligence to speed up progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)