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Founded by parents alarmed by their children's health, Breathe Mongolia turned open sensor data into household action in Ulaanbaatar — working with …
Owned by a trust for its ~74,000 staff ('Partners') since 1929, the John Lewis Partnership shares profits through an annual bonus — …
When Taiwan rationed face masks in Feb 2020, the government opened a real-time pharmacy-inventory API that civic hackers and developers turned into …
A KfW-backed credit line channelled through Rwanda's Development Bank lends to export-oriented SMEs at 10–12% versus a 17–19% market rate; a matched …
Côte d'Ivoire's investment agency merged company registration, tax and social-security formalities into one window (GUFE), cutting business creation from 40 days to …
Since 2013, Ecuador's AEI has coordinated 185 public, private and academic allies to support entrepreneurs, reporting 15,000+ entrepreneurs assisted, 3,325 jobs and …
Technovera's Pelebox smart lockers, backed by South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency, let clinic patients collect chronic medication via SMS one-time password in …
A Horizon 2020 'Teaming' partnership with Imperial College London turned a University of Cyprus ICT research group into the country's largest critical-infrastructure …
Alibaba's AI platform fuses traffic-camera, GPS and sensor data city-wide; Hangzhou's congestion rank fell from 5th to 57th in China and average …
A UK government-backed scheme pairing free technology advice, leadership training and matched grants to help North West England manufacturing SMEs adopt digital …
Econet launched EcoCash in Harare in 2011 amid cash shortages. In six years it processed over $23bn - more than Zimbabwe's GDP …
UNDP's City Experiment Fund has used Stepanavan, Armenia as a recurring test site since 2021 for systems-thinking urban pilots. An independently documented …
Since 1998, the EU's Twinning instrument has paired public administrations in member states with counterparts in candidate and partner countries on €1-4m …
A German federal-state programme giving individual coaching to women and men re-entering the labour market after multi-year family-care breaks, with ESF-monitored outcome …
Founded in 1949 by the Agoria industry federation, Sirris runs eight sites across Belgium and in 2022 guided 1,190 innovation projects for …
Orange Mali's free Bamako hub pairs a coding school, FabLab and start-up accelerator; a 2024 UNDP partnership trained 200 young women in …
Since 2015, OK Lab Stuttgart's open-source, ~€30 particulate-matter sensor kit has been rebuilt by volunteers into tens of thousands of live stations …
Palau linked its corporate and secured-transactions registries into one online platform run by its Financial Institutions Commission, built on a shared system …
Since 2014 South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups has subsidised smart-factory conversions for SMEs. Government survey data and an independent matched-sample …
Sweden's state-owned Almi Företagspartner runs loans, equity and advisory across 16 regions; government counterfactual studies found Almi-financed firms grew revenue by SEK …
CEMR and the Association of Ukrainian Cities paired 30 Ukrainian municipalities with 30 EU counterparts for reconstruction-focused peer learning, producing 48 joint …
Founded in 2011 by three former GIZ staff, iceaddis became Ethiopia's first tech innovation hub. A decade on it reported supporting 160+ …
A former U.S. Canal Zone military base became a Panamanian innovation district that in 2024 hosted 34 international organisations and 135 tech/education …
A Portuguese government-backed pilot cut hours by 13.7% at over 1,000 workers across 41 companies for six months in 2023; 95% of …
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