UNIDO’s groundbreaking publication on the adoption of AI by SMEs
VIENNA – December 9th, 2021 – Further to its participation in the United Nations High Level Inter-Agency Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has developed a new normative doc...
Latin American SMEs are betting abroad to get out of the crisis
November 17th, 2021 – The pandemic has forced Latin American SMEs, the segment most affected by the economic crisis, to sharpen their ingenuity and those that have managed to survive have sometimes had to look for new paths that were not in its init...
How start-ups and small businesses are revelling in their flexible culture
December 9th, 2021 – After the initial panic and a sense of the unknown, it can be easily argued that many changes have been made for the better. A global study from Atlassian reveals that almost 7 in 10 Australian workers say their job satisfaction...
Africa: Expanding access to trade finance is necessary for SMEs
November 29th, 2021 – When it comes to enhancing access to trade finance for African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), current challenges call for innovative solutions. The African continent represents a market of approximately 1.2 billion ...
5 Ways In Which SMEs Can Unlock Growth In A Post-Covid World
November 22th, 2021 – Small businesses have been scrambling over the past 18 months to adjust to a fast-changing landscape transformed by a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. We have already seen how the fallout from Covid-19 has dramatically accelerated tr...
Cybersecurity is still challenging for ASEAN businesses
November 29th, 2021 – ASEAN businesses are still challenged by cybersecurity problems, especially with the data protection landscape in the region fast changing. With recent media reports of cyber attacks targeting regional entities, it is clear tha...
Africa Industrialization Week 2021 at UNIDO
A series of webinars on themes such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, climate-related challenges in industrialization, and opportunities for Japanese and other international investors on the African continent, marked the beginning of Africa Industriali...
Cop26: sustainability measurement and investment platform launched
November 10th, 2021 – A new digital platform that aims to streamline end-to-end sustainable finance lifecycle making it easier, cheaper, and more transparent for both issuers and investors has been launched at Cop26. The main goal of the Evercity pl...
COP26: The World Is Watching
GLASGOW – October 31th, 2021 – In 2015, the world came together in Paris to tackle climate change. Six years later, COP26 in Glasgow will aim to deliver on the promises of the Paris Agreement. World leaders and national delegations, representa...
The EU wants business to be sustainable. But it must empower companies to do that
October 26th, 2021 – Since its inception, the EU has been confronted with numerous crises and debates on how to advance a plan for a united and peaceful post-war Europe. In essence, what began as an imperfect economic union with the ultimate ambitio...
