TIC A.C. operates the world's largest community-owned mobile network, covering 63 indigenous localities across five Mexican states; its 2016 Social Indigenous IFT …
Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 4%98/100
A community-owned GSM/4G cellular network built and operated by Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and campesino communities in Buenos Aires, Cauca, after they won a …
Buenos Aires (Cauca), Colombia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 4%91/100
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 …
Leuven, Belgium
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 6%87/100
Running since 2010, Reykjavík's participatory platform uses ML for idea classification, toxicity detection and translation. Over 70,000 residents—58%+ of the city—have participated; …
Reykjavík, Iceland
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 10%86/100
City of Athens platform (since 2013) that maps and supports citizen-led initiatives, connecting community groups with city services, NGOs and businesses. Won …
Athens, Greece
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 10%86/100
AUD 110.8m, 8-year programme (2012-2020): 170,000+ women helped to access government services; 73,000+ women in grassroots groups; 315 local-government rules changed for …
Jakarta, Indonesia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 29%85/100
The project Cooperating to Succeed – Supporting Women's Engagement in Local Politics aims to address and reduce vertical and horizontal gender discrimination …
· National
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%81/100
With funding from the “Fundamental Rights and Citizenship” programme of the European Commission, KMOP implemented a project in the domain of political …
unspecified, Greece· National
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 36%78/100
In 1995, South African civil-society organisations and women MPs launched the world's first parliamentary gender-responsive budget analysis, contributing to VAT removal on …
Cape Town, South Africa
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 8%73/100
Finland's education ministry and Opetushallitus published national AI recommendations (31 March 2025) after consulting 172 organisations and youth 'Digiraati' councils, covering legal …
Helsinki, Finland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%72/100
A four-year Fundación Ceibal project co-designing low-tech and digital learning tools — educational TV, printed materials, mobile content — with rural and …
IKI-funded governance programme (2022-2027) for the Cuvette Centrale, the world's largest tropical peatland (145,500 km2, ~30.6 Gt carbon, Nature 2017), building cross-sectoral …
Zimbabwe's Ministry of Local Government launched a WhatsApp platform where residents anonymously rate councils on 8 service areas; AI analyses responses in …
Harare, Zimbabwe
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 81%37/100
Botswana's national CBNRM policy (2007, piloted since the 1990s) channels tourism and hunting revenue to ~100 community trusts covering ~22% of national …
Kasane, Botswana
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 87%24/100