Estonia's decade-old e-Residency scheme has attracted over 135,000 digital residents from 185 countries, who founded a record 5,556 companies and generated €125 …
Tallinn, Estonia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
Kenya's first citywide Special Planning Area designation (2017) gave 100,560 households on 689 acres of Nairobi's Mukuru settlements a co-produced governance mechanism; …
Since 1986, the Philippines' Community Mortgage Program has let associations of informal settlers collectively buy and title their land; it reached 106,273 …
Quezon City, Philippines
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
Since 2000, La Paz's municipal government has upgraded more than 100 of the city's poorest hillside neighbourhoods through 'Barrios de Verdad,' combining …
La Paz, Bolivia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
Peru's Ministry of Production scaled a technology-extension network from 3 pilot centres (2012) to 48 CITEs today across agroindustry, fisheries, leather and …
Starting in Jakarta in 1969, Indonesia's Kampung Improvement Programme threaded paved paths, drainage, water and sanitation into existing 'kampung' neighbourhoods without resettling …
Jakarta, Indonesia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
Rwanda built one of the world's first national beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone regulatory frameworks so Zipline's autonomous aircraft could deliver blood and medical products …
Muhanga, Rwanda
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
A government LINE chatbot lets Bangkok residents report potholes, flooding and broken infrastructure with a geotagged photo. A peer-reviewed study of 98,000 …
Bangkok, Thailand
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
A university-NGO consortium GPS-mapped Nairobi's ~130 informal matatu routes and 3,000+ stops, producing the first standardised (GTFS) map of an informal transit …
Nairobi, Kenya
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
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India's national open-source data exchange lets cities publish and share standardised urban datasets. Backed by ₹29 crore in central funding, it scaled …
Bengaluru, India
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
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Since 2001, ILO-IFC's Better Factories Cambodia has tied garment-export access to independently monitored labour standards. A Tufts/NBER study (2015-18) found compliant factories …
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 17%81/100
Australia's oldest university venture fund: since 2000, Uniseed has backed 74 start-ups across nine universities and CSIRO that raised A$1.64bn, including a …
KU Leuven's LRD office has backed 199 university spin-offs since the 1980s, employing 7,700+ people; ranked Europe's most innovative university by Reuters …
Leuven, Belgium
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 17%81/100
Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft channels publicly funded applied research into industry via 74 institutes; 2024 business volume hit €3.4bn and industrial revenue reached a …
Munich, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%81/100
Since 2010, Shenzhen's Qianhai zone has piloted cross-border legal, financial and professional-recognition rules with Hong Kong. By December 2025 it hosted 10,500+ …
Shenzhen, China
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 17%81/100
India's first university-based research park (2010) hosts 100+ corporate R&D tenants and an incubation cell that nurtured 511+ startups worth over ₹53,000 …
Chennai, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
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