Guided by a vision with people at its heart, WFP is harnessing the benefits of blockchain technology in its operations. Since 2017, WFP and its partners have been applying blockchain technology through the “Building Blocks” (BB) project to help achieve its mission while working with the wider United Nations/INGO community to push for greater efficiency across humanitarian and development operations.
Country: Italy
Case Study
Italian Gender Equality Certification System – Sistema per la certificazione della parità di…
Within the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). the Italian government has introduced a national “Gender Equality Certification System” that aims at guiding and incentivizing companies to adopt policies aiming at reducing the gender gap in all the most critical areas, such as opportunities for growth in the company, equal pay for equal work and maternity protection, and also supporting a paradigm shift developing from the business world.
Officina is a lab for innovation in the public sector whose main objective is to catalyse the energy of young talents by offering them a transformative training programme. Officina was developed to address a triple urgency: future decision makers not perceiving the public sector as an attractive workplace; the public sector having high average age workforce and lack of innovative approaches; society at large needing a more modern and appealing public sector in this key historical moment.
Governments around the world are censoring the Internet, but how can we document, track, and respond to Internet censorship events? In 2022, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) launched the Measurement Aggregation Toolkit (MAT) which hosts one of the largest open datasets on Internet censorship to date. In real-time, new measurements are published from around the world, enabling researchers, journalists, and human rights defenders to track and respond to censorship worldwide.
Companies in Emilia-Romagna in Italy are in strong need of personnel with ICT skills. Unfortunately, the education system is currently unable to meet this demand: there are still many young people who do not follow STEM courses. In particular, few girls approach university and specialist courses in science and technology. Digital Girls ER is an active orientation project whose main objective is to bring girls closer to computer science and programming through an innovative method.
Ethical delivers is a home delivery platform founded in 2020 to address the needs raised by the Coronavirus pandemic as an alternative to extractive capitalist platforms. It provides basic goods and services while respecting workers' rights and environmental sustainability. Designed following cooperative principles through an urban codesign process, it has clear pillars: a fair rider salary, the use of vehicles that minimise environmental impact, and a more direct relationship with small…
Academic Research in Healtcare data could help people to know better how expertises in several working teams are managing the information technologies and scientific results that are very important to conduct new empirical experiments and study new skills for increasing the professional figures.
In a pre-registered experiment, we tested whether expert endorsement increases the effectiveness of debunking messages about COVID-19 vaccines. We monitored a sample of 2,277 people in Italy through a longitudinal study along the salient phases of the vaccination campaign. Participants received a series of messages endorsed by either medical researchers (experimental group) or by generic others (control). In order to minimise demand effects, we collected participants’ responses always at ten…
In a seven-week school-based field experiment using preadolescents’ physical activity as a proxy for estimating behavioural change, we test the hypothesis that boys’ and girls’ distinct networks are susceptible to different social incentives.
Six European partners are collaborating in the framework of the Interreg Europe Program for the implementation of DIALOG. The project has the objective of improving the effectiveness of innovative policies for regional competitiveness through the involvement of local stakeholders and citizens in policy and decision making processes. This involvement will be crucial to address common needs and face mid- and long-term challenges related to sustainable territorial development.