UNIDO

Promoting sustainable bush-processing value chains in Namibia

Africa, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Caribbean Namibia

This project aims to bolster food and income sources by converting invasive bush species into valuable products. It leverages digital tools for sustainable land management and biomass processing, including automated Acacia detection using AI with satellite and drone images. The project also transfers technology and knowledge to enable the eThekwini Municipal Government to leverage BEAM to more effectively target their upgrading and basic urban service delivery interventions.

Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsNetworks/Mentorship/Exchange

UNIDO

Ghana “Improving the technology and quality control system for higher value addition in the post-harvest processes of the rice value chain (ITEQ)”

Africa Ghana

As part of UNIDO’s ITEQ-Rice project in Ghana, three AI-powered optical colour sorters were donated to women’s groups in remote areas of the Mion District to improve rice processing and quality control. These machines use artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning to rapidly detect and remove defective grains based on color, shape, and size, replacing the time-consuming manual sorting process.

Activity Type AI Tools/Solutions

UNIDOUN Secretariat - OOSA

Enhancing the resilience of key industries to natural disasters in the State of Rio Grande do Sul

Latin America and the Caribbean Brazil

Co-development of spatially enabled digital twin models using UNOOSA-supported EO datasets and analytics to simulate climate risk scenarios and service disruptions ensuring resilience of industrial supply chains and MSMEs to climate disasters.

Activity Type AI Tools/Solutions

UNIDO

AI & Digital for Industry Navigator (AIDIN)

Latin America and the Caribbean BrazilMexico

AIDIN is a platform developed by UNIDO in partnership with IBM under the IBM Impact Accelerator. It measures a country's maturity and capacity to adopt, benefit from, and develop AI and digital technologies for industry, and converts this diagnosis into actionable pathways for industrial transformation. The platform combines a structured maturity framework — covering five enabling pillars (Infrastructure, Data, Innovation Ecosystem, Capital, and Governance) — with an AI-powered conversational assistant that supports governments, policy-makers, and industry stakeholders in identifying gaps, benchmarking progress, and prioritizing AI and digital initiatives. The project is currently in active development following completion of the discovery and design (Garage) phase, with an MVP prototype in place and a soft-launch foreseen at UNGA in September 2026.

Activity Type Research/Reports/Assessments