Brazil's Embrapa runs a formal four-phase technology-transfer and impact-assessment pipeline for its agricultural research. Its 2021 evaluation of 152 projects found R$18 …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Created in 1986 by Fundação CERTI as Brazil's first tech-business incubator, CELTA has graduated 118 companies generating ~800 direct jobs and R$67m/year …
TransEmpregos is Brazil's oldest free job-matching platform for transgender people, linking CVs to employers like Carrefour, IBM and Atento. Since 2013 it …
São Paulo, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%67/100
Brazil's first university innovation agency (est. 2003) manages UNICAMP's 1,293 active patents and 212 licensing agreements; patent filings rose 70% in 2024, …
Campinas, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 35%67/100
Latin America's largest corporate innovation hub (est. 2015), co-founded by Itaú Unibanco and Redpoint eventures in Vila Olímpia, São Paulo. 500+ curated …
São Paulo, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%67/100
World's first jurisdictional REDD+ system (Acre State Law 2.308/2010), covering 15.4 M ha of Amazon forest; Standard Chartered-CDSA partnership to sell up …
Rio de Janeiro's flagship in-situ favela-upgrading programme (1994–2008) delivered streets, drainage and services without removing residents; a peer-reviewed evaluation found service-access gains …
Brazil's anti-corruption watchdog CGU and Uruguay's AGESIC piloted an open-source bridge letting citizens query government open data in plain language via LLMs …
Brazil's federal platform, built on Decidim, drew 8,000+ citizen proposals and 1.5 million votes for the 2024–2027 Multi-Year Plan; researchers then applied …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%60/100
For Brazil's October 2024 municipal elections (150 million voters), the TSE required campaigns to disclose AI-manipulated content and banned harmful deepfakes; independent …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%60/100
Piauí's state government uses AI to triage citizen budget proposals in its OPA digital participatory budget, cutting proposal-analysis time by 40% and …
Teresina, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 28%60/100
Livox, an AI-adaptive augmentative-communication app built by a father for his daughter with cerebral palsy, was formally adopted into Recife's public schools …
Recife, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 28%60/100
Brazil's leading adaptive AI platform for ENEM preparation: official MEC selection (2013), 12 M+ students impacted, state partnership giving free access to …
São Paulo, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 18%60/100
Brazil's first ecological fiscal transfer (1991) redistributes ~R$500 million/year of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas or water springs, spurring …
Curitiba, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 18%60/100
Brazil's oldest community PES: since 2007, the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation pays 583 riverine communities (BRL 50/household/month + community fund) to conserve 10.9 …
Manaus, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 66%53/100
Since December 2024 Brazil's Receita Federal has fed Guarulhos Airport's X-ray feed into Google's Gemini model, flagging suspect baggage and parcels in …
Guarulhos, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 33%53/100
The World Bank's GRAS tool has screened Brazilian public spending since a November 2023 pilot across federal, state and municipal levels, identifying …
Since 2008, Rio de Janeiro's Guandu river-basin PES program has paid smallholders USD 6.25-31.25/ha/year to conserve or restore riparian forest; a peer-reviewed …
Rio Claro, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 33%53/100
Brazil's first municipal PES law (Lei 2.100/2005): Extrema, Minas Gerais pays 53+ landowners R$195/ha/yr to restore native forest and adopt conservation practices …