Seattle's ~100,000-acre Cedar River Municipal Watershed programme won EPA's rare 'Limited Alternative to Filtration' status in 2004, saving over $100 million in …
Seattle, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 18%60/100
Ten island watershed partnerships co-manage 2.6M acres of Hawaiian native forest through fencing and invasive/ungulate removal. ~US$2.5M annual state funding; US$12M leveraged …
Massachusetts' STEM Advisory Council, Technology Collaborative and Project Lead The Way launched a pilot of PLTW's semester-long AI curriculum in 30 school …
In June 2025 Maryland launched a bilingual Claude-powered chatbot for its $72.5M SUN Bucks food-benefit program, reaching 600,000+ residents and cutting call-center …
An RCT across four political science courses at Houston and partner universities found GPT-4-assisted grading of short-answer questions, using instructor rubrics, matched …
Houston, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 66%53/100
USPS equipped 195 mail-processing centers with Nvidia GPU edge servers that scan barcodes and addresses on packages, cutting missing-parcel investigations from days …
A CHI 2026 randomised trial at the University of Michigan found AI-drafted feedback, reviewed by teaching assistants, improved 354 economics students' essay …
Ann Arbor, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 66%53/100
Delaware's DMV launched Della, a Google Cloud-built AI chatbot on dmv.de.gov answering licence and registration questions on a portal with 600,000+ monthly …
Dover, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 42%53/100
Operating at FinCEN since March 1993, the rule-based FAIS system linked cash-transaction reports to surface money-laundering leads: over 400 investigative reports covering …
Vienna, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%53/100
Vanderbilt disabled Turnitin's AI-writing detector campus-wide in Aug 2023, calculating its claimed 1% false-positive rate could wrongly flag ~750 of its 75,000 …
Nashville, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%53/100
Verbit's AI captioning, used at the University of Arizona and elsewhere, supports US universities' ADA compliance. A national study of 2,000 students …
Tucson, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%53/100
Georgia Tech's Jill Watson, an AI teaching assistant since 2016, answers routine course-logistics questions online. A 2024 peer-reviewed study found 75-97% answer …
Atlanta, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%53/100