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Most practices in: Iceland (28)
Iceland's 2018 law made it the world's first country to require all employers with 25+ workers to certify gender-equal pay under standard …
Iceland's 2021 reform expanded paid parental leave to 12 months with 6 months per parent non-transferable, raising fathers' average leave use to …
On 24 October 1975, an estimated 90% of Icelandic women stopped paid and unpaid work for a day, shutting down schools, flights …
Iceland became the first country to mandate equal pay certification (2018): employers with 25+ staff must certify pay equity every 3 years …
Iceland's Telecommunications Fund has co-financed fibre-to-the-home broadband for rural farms and remote settlements since 2016, bringing fibre to about 82% of rural …
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 City and Iceland's government cut over 2,500 public workers to a 35–36 hour week at full pay; productivity held or rose, …
Since 2010, Reykjavik crowdsourcing platform registered 70,000+ participants (58 % of residents), collected 10,000+ ideas, realised nearly 700 citizen projects and allocates …
Iceland's Act on Gender Autonomy (No. 80/2019) let people change their legally registered gender by self-declaration, without diagnosis or treatment, and added …
Since 2010, Icelandic law has required boards of companies and pension funds with 50+ employees to have at least 40% of each …
Iceland's national, subsidised treatment centre for people who use partner violence (2006). A 2024 evaluation surveyed 75 of 262 clients (2017–2023) and …
Iceland's 2015–2019 public-sector trials cut hours from 40 to 35–36/week for 2,500 workers (>1% of the workforce) at full pay; productivity held …
Founded in 2011, the Iceland Ocean Cluster's self-funded Ocean Cluster House grew from 12 to over 70 resident marine firms, helping lift …
Iceland's one-stop citizen portal, Ísland.is, won a 2023 World Summit Award for combining efficient e-government with accessibility for disabled users — even …
Iceland's main national business-accelerator body, tracing to a 2000 corporate innovation centre and a 2007 student-led non-profit merged in 2013, has drawn …
Iceland's Ísland.is portal runs Askur, an AI chatbot answering citizen queries around the clock from vetted agency content. Government figures show ~10,000 …
Since 2017, Bjarkarhlíð has co-located police, prosecutors, shelters and counselling services under one roof in Reykjavík so survivors of domestic, sexual and …
Since 2007, Iceland's Hekluskógar project has enlisted 210+ landowners to re-establish native birch woodland around the Hekla volcano, planting 2.3M+ seedlings by …
A five-year national programme building open-source Icelandic speech recognition, synthesis, machine translation and spell-check so a ~small language stays usable in digital …
On President Jóhannesson's initiative, Iceland partnered with OpenAI so GPT-4 could learn proper Icelandic. Reykjavík firm Miðeind used 40 volunteers to fine-tune …
Facing its seasonal loan-application rush, Iceland's student loan agency built Lína, an Icelandic-language AI chatbot, in four weeks. By its 2021 annual …
Grammatek's neural Icelandic text-to-speech technology now narrates textbooks for Hljóðbókasafn Íslands, the national library serving dyslexic and print-disabled students, after a 2022 …
Iceland's education directorate and teachers' union gave ~7% of the country's teachers (~300 primary/lower-secondary, ~260 upper-secondary) free access to Claude and Gemini …
Since 2018, Iceland's Wetland Fund has rewetted ~300 ha of drained peatland and is piloting an IPCC-aligned carbon-credit methodology with automated water-level …
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