The US Treasury's Office of Payment Integrity uses ML to screen federal disbursements. In FY2024, ML-driven processes prevented or recovered $4.059 billion …
Since 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies and two Harvard schools have run a nine-month executive-education and peer-learning programme for sitting mayors, reaching 447 mayors …
Cambridge, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%76/100
UIUC-led, with five tech firms and advocacy groups, SAP collects consented speech from people with disabilities. Fine-tuning on 151 hours of Parkinson's …
Mozilla's CC0 crowdsourced speech corpus, launched in 2017, lets volunteers record and validate sentences so under-resourced languages can get speech technology; the …
Sony spent five years co-designing the Access controller with AbleGamers, Stack-Up and SpecialEffect and disabled gamers themselves, producing a modular, table- or …
Six-session classroom curriculum plus building measures (hot-spot mapping, staff presence, posters, school restraining orders). Two NYC randomised trials found the low-cost building …
Ten-session school curriculum plus theatre and community components; a cluster-randomised trial in 14 North Carolina schools found less dating-violence perpetration four years …
Since 2021, Illinois has required large private employers to obtain a biennial equal-pay certificate with individual-level wage/demographic data. A 2025 university evaluation …
Springfield, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%74/100
California's 2018 board-gender quota law drove women's board share to a US-record 32.5% before a 2022 court ruled it unconstitutional; reporting since …
Sacramento, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 42%74/100
Girls Who Code runs U.S. summer programmes teaching coding to high-school girls and non-binary students. An independent AIR study found participants were …
Denver's generative-AI 311 chatbot "Sunny" was handling 12% of all citizen-service inquiries by June 2024, two months after launch. Neighbouring Aurora copied …
Denver, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 22%73/100
San José mounted AI-powered cameras on city vehicles to automatically detect potholes and roadway debris, reporting 97% pothole-detection accuracy and 88% debris-detection …