Ninety-three years of multilateral machinery — the General Assembly, the Security Council, and a constellation of funds, programmes and specialized agencies — set the world's shared priorities and hold them to account.
Visit iBANK →While the World Bank concentrates capital on social and economic development, iBANK builds and operates the digital and financial infrastructure the mandate runs on — identity, payments, data, and resilience.
Visit UnityLink →The collaboration is structured around a simple separation of concerns: the UN sets direction and coordinates member states, the World Bank Group finances development outcomes, and iBANK supplies the technological backbone that makes both faster, more transparent and more resilient.
Sets global norms and priorities, coordinates 193 member states, and runs the agencies, funds and programmes that deliver peace & security, humanitarian relief, human rights protection and standard-setting worldwide.
Concentrates on the social and economic development of UN priorities — financing infrastructure, poverty reduction, education, health systems and macroeconomic stability across developing and emerging economies.
Provides the digital rails underneath the mandate: secure identity, cross-border payment settlement, data infrastructure, cybersecurity and platform engineering for UN and World Bank programmes alike.
Two real, live ITU/UN initiatives that a UNiBANK-style technology partnership would plug directly into: the ITU-led Citiverse programme for AI-powered virtual worlds in cities, and the UN Legal Identity Agenda working toward legal identity for everyone by 2030.
The Global Initiative on AI and Virtual Worlds — "Discovering the Citiverse" — was launched by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN International Computing Centre (UNICC) and Digital Dubai at the first UN Virtual Worlds Day in Geneva, 14 June 2024. It's now backed by more than 70 partners, including UNICEF, WIPO, FAO, UN Tourism and the World Bank Group.
The citiverse concept fuses AI, spatial intelligence and digital twins with real city infrastructure — aimed at urban planning, public services, education and municipal service delivery, with a stated priority of staying people-centred and avoiding a new digital divide. The 1st UN Citiverse Challenge (2025) invited students and startups worldwide to design solutions around three themes: access to public services, sustainability & resilience, and tourism & digital culture.
Source: itu.int/metaverse/virtual-worlds
Sustainable Development Goal Target 16.9 commits UN member states to "legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030." The United Nations Legal Identity Agenda (2020–2030) is co-chaired by UNDP, UN DESA and UNICEF, working as a "One UN" approach alongside the World Bank Group to help countries build holistic civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems.
Legal identity underpins access to social protection, health traceability, financial inclusion, education and property rights — the UN treats it as a prerequisite for roughly ten other SDG targets, not a standalone goal.
You referenced "2.6 billion" — that's ITU's Facts & Figures 2024 count of people still offline worldwide. ITU's newer 2025 report revised the offline figure down to 2.2 billion, so I've shown both rather than pick one.
Every publication currently listed on the UN Legal Identity Agenda's official publications page — principles, handbooks, guidelines, papers, reports and video — linked straight to the source PDFs and videos, in whatever languages the UN has published them.
Full index maintained at unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/publications — UN Statistics Division / DESA.
A working directory of the principal organs, funds & programmes, specialized agencies and cross-cutting offices that make up the UN system iBANK is integrating with. Every name links back to its official site.
The complete top-level navigation of un.org — main bodies, departments and offices, resources and services, key documents, news and media, and issues and campaigns — reproduced here for quick reference. Every entry links out to the official un.org page.
Source: un.org global site navigation, as reproduced at the requester's direction.
A concept-stage mapping of the technology layer iBANK would contribute alongside each cluster of UN activity, distinct from the World Bank's financing role.
DPPA, DPO, CTED coordination across missions and member states.
Secure communications infrastructure, encrypted field data systems, and identity verification for peacekeeping and monitoring operations.
OCHA, UNHCR, WFP, UNRWA emergency operations.
Digital identity for displaced populations, cross-border aid disbursement rails, and real-time logistics tracking for relief supply chains.
World Bank Group financing, UNDP programmes, UNCTAD trade facilitation.
Payment settlement and disbursement infrastructure underneath World Bank-financed programmes; iBANK operates the rails, the Bank allocates the capital.
DESA, UN Statistics Division, SDG progress tracking.
Data infrastructure and dashboards for Sustainable Development Goal indicators, standardized across agencies.
WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS service delivery.
Health-record interoperability, vaccine cold-chain tracking systems, and secure population registries.
UNEP, UNFCCC, WMO monitoring and early warning.
Sensor networks, satellite-data pipelines, and early-warning alert systems for climate and disaster resilience.