- One of the key topics at the United Nations Development Program’s main event of the year will be time as a transversal issue that societies should prioritise, together with well-being, care, and happiness, to face systemic global challenges.
- The Time Use Initiative celebrates the UN’s inclusion of time in its global agenda as a step forward towards our goal of making time policies accessible to everyone worldwide.
The United Nations Development Program’s Istanbul Innovation Days event, Shaping the Institutions of Tomorrow, taking place on 24-25 March 2025, will focus on shaping the next generation of public institutions to provide adequate responses in an uncertain world where political, climatic, economic and technological challenges converge.
These moments of complexity also offer new opportunities to rethink and transform institutions; the event 2025 will explore how public institutions might reinvent themselves to seize these opportunities. Some of them are emerging experimental institutional actions, as we can see in cities all around the world setting up new functions to address transversal issues as it is time (for instance, through chief time officers), well-being and happiness; these Transversal issues, including time, will conform of the 5 axes of the conference.
Since its creation in 2015, UNDP’s Istanbul Innovation Days (IID) is a platform for exploring new trends, ideas and practices in the field of strategic innovation in public & development sectors. This year, experts from the Time Use Initiative and the World Time Capital 2025 (Bogotá) will be participating.
