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work2future is Silicon Valley’s Workforce Investment Network. It is a part of the national workforce development system as authorized by the Workforce …
Born in Nairobi during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence, Ushahidi's open-source crowdsourcing platform has since been deployed 150,000+ times in 160+ countries, and …
Medellín integrated cable-car lines and hillside escalators with neighbourhood upgrading to connect its poorest comunas to the city, cutting homicide rates 97% …
Vienna's long-term, legally-binding smart-city strategy (first 2011, updated 2019/2022) aligning resource conservation, quality of life and social inclusion with annual monitoring.
Helsinki's city-owned innovation company co-creates smart-city, mobility and data solutions through agile pilots in real neighbourhoods (Smart Kalasatama, Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab).
Smart Open Lisboa (SOL) is a startup program focused on the validation and integration of innovative solutions meant to upgrade the citizens’ …
Erhvervshus Hovedstaden is one of six regional business houses in Denmark. At Erhvervshus Hovedstaden, they help more than 5,000 companies to grow …
Since 2009, China Agricultural University has embedded graduate students in villages to co-develop farming practices with smallholders; a Nature-published evaluation credits the …
Kazakhstan's Damu Fund tested three SME finance instruments; a 2026 World Bank study found market-aligned partial guarantees raised employment ~24% and sales …
Since 2022, UNICEF Bhutan and the Ministry of Education have scaled UPSHIFT from 65 to 264 schools nationwide, training 27,000+ youth in …
In July 2017, 15 volunteer teams in Richmond, Virginia logged 60,000+ car-mounted temperature readings, finding 15–20°F intra-city gaps that helped secure five …
Makerere University engineers built AirQo in 2015 to fill Africa's air-quality data gap with low-cost, solar-powered sensors. It now runs 200+ monitors …
Since 1999, Berlin has run resident-majority neighbourhood councils in disadvantaged districts, channelling over €530M and ~8,200 projects into 42 areas, though evaluation …
Since 2006, Kounkuey Design Initiative has co-designed 11 flood-resilient public spaces with Kibera residents on reclaimed dumpsites, installing 520m of flood protection …
Ukraine's ProZorro platform, co-built from 2014 by volunteer technologists, government and donors, cut single-supplier contracting from 11% to 5% within a year …
Milan's Food Policy office, Politecnico di Milano and partners run hubs that recover unsold food from markets for redistribution; recovery grew from …
Founded in 1972, KNUST's Technology Consultancy Centre pioneered Ghana's Intermediate Technology Transfer Unit model with informal-sector artisans in Kumasi; replicated nationally via …
Since 2004, Toronto's TRIEC Mentoring Partnership has logged 27,000+ mentoring matches for skilled immigrants; an independent, federally funded evaluation found participants 2.5x …
Since 2003 Toronto's TRIEC has matched 5,300+ skilled immigrants with professional mentors; a 2020 evaluation found participants 2.5x more likely to land …
City-wide non-profit (founded 2013) steering Leuven toward climate neutrality via a quadruple-helix model of government, knowledge institutions, companies and citizens. From 60 …
Estonia's largest science park runs a startup incubator and themed accelerators (NATO DIANA, ESA BIC, AI, cyber) that have supported 600+ startups …
A 34,000 m² Paris campus hosting 1,000+ startups a year across 30+ acceleration programmes run with global corporates, anchoring the French Tech …
“Unleash Your Geek” was part of the previous mayor’s vision of “unlocking the community’s potential.” The Strategic Partnerships team in the city …
Halle 2 is a municipal-led second-hand store combining circular economy principles with the aim of actively supporting sustainable lifestyles by Munich’s residents. …
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