- The Istanbul Innovation Days have placed time as one of the transversal issues that societies must prioritize to face global challenges and guarantee the well-being of citizens.
- Experts from the Time Use Initiative (TUI) and the World Capital of Time 2025, Bogota, have participated in various activities to reflect and publicize the benefits of time policies among the attendees.
The Istanbul Innovation Days (IDDs) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) were held on 24 and 25 March. This year, the conference focused on institutional innovation in an uncertain world defined by successive crises, placing time as one of the transversal issues that societies must prioritize to face global challenges and guarantee the well-being of citizens.
The IDDs have brought together leaders, thinkers, public policy formulators, and experts from around the world to explore new trends, ideas, and practices in innovation and development in the public sector to promote the design of the next generation of public institutions.
Time Use Initiative participation in the IDDs:
Experts from the Time Use Initiative (TUI) and the World Capital of Time 2025, Bogotá, have participated in various activities to reflect and publicize the benefits of time policies among the attendees.
Diego Golombek and Ana María Tribin Uribe, members of the TUI International Expert Laboratory, participated in the main conversation “Transversal Issues”, in which time and time policies were addressed as a key issue for the modernization and transformation of institutions. You can recover the conversation below:
Marta Junqué, founder and director of the Time Use Initiative, led the interactive workshop “Laboratories of Innovation in the Public Sector and Transversal Issues” together with professionals from institutions in Thailand, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. The workshop analysed innovative methodologies that municipal and national governments are adopting to design public policies that better respond to current and future challenges. For example, the creation of laboratories or spaces for institutional experimentation.
Finally, Giulio Quaggiotto, member of the TUI International Experts Laboratory, participated in the interactive workshop “Should Public Innovation Be Irreversible?”. The workshop analysed the challenge of “institutional short-termism”, prioritizing immediate results over long-term goals, and discussed possible solutions to increase the chances that an initiative will survive political cycles and government changes.
Article “Time Use Policies: Rethinking the institutional fabric around transversal issues”:
Within the framework of the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025, the Time Use Initiative has published the article “Time Use Policies: rethinking the institutional fabric around transversal issues”. It explores how institutions can use time to align their policies in a better way with the realities of our societies, promoting the well-being of citizens.
