IMF Anti Corruption Challenge
Get to know the winners of the Anti-Corruption IMF Challenge, or learn more about the challenge in general.
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IMF Fund Challenge Alumni Video
The IMF Fund Challenge is an opportunity to meet with policy makers, members of academia, and civil society organizations from around the world. Finalists also present their analysis to other participants of the Annual/Spring Meetings, attend seminars, press conferences, and other events.
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Big Data for Surveillance
The IMF recently held a Pitch Event as part of a program promoting innovation, sponsored by the Fund’s iLab. The challenge generated 24 ideas, with 921 staff participants. Out of the eight finalist teams, three outstanding proposals were selected for seed funding. Find out more about the winning projects and teams.
Who We Are
The IMF’s Innovation Lab (iLab) was launched in September 2017. Its main task is to foster a culture of innovation across the institution. In a time of rapid change, digital transformation, and technological progress, innovation can help the IMF respond, and leverage these new mechanisms, to deliver its core activities in an agile, integrated, and member-focused way.
What We Do
The iLab serves as a problem-solving center, where staff develop new solutions, processes, and policies using new and cutting-edge skills. The iLab is a physical space that invites creativity, exploration of ideas; and a training and networking hub for innovation. The iLab partners with academics, CSOs, governments, and other multilateral organizations to encourage collaborative solutions for our member countries.
Why We Do It
The purpose of innovation at the IMF is to improve the Fund’s processes, ways of working, and ultimately, outputs, to more effectively further our mission and serve our member countries.
Former Managing Director Christine Lagarde shares her thoughts about innovation and about why it is critical to embrace and nurture a culture of innovation for the benefit of those we serve.
