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AI-assisted civic deliberation platform run by Taiwan's PDIS, using open-source Polis AI to map consensus on ~30 policy issues since 2014. Over …
The UK's ATRS is a public register documenting how government algorithmic tools work and affect people. World-first when launched in 2021, it …
Pair is GovTech Singapore's LLM assistant for civil servants — drafting, research and analysis — with 60,000+ registered users across 100+ agencies, …
Estonia's open-source virtual-assistant ecosystem giving citizens a single conversational channel to public services, integrated across 18+ organisations, with human hand-off when it …
Since 1995 South Africa has paid the unemployed to clear water-hungry invasive alien plants — 2.5M+ hectares cleared and 300,000+ people employed …
Costa Rica's national PES, created by the 1996 Forest Law, has paid landowners US$565M to conserve 1.15M+ hectares for carbon, water, biodiversity …
Bogotá's first 'vital neighbourhood', San Felipe, reallocated 1,745 m² of street space to pedestrians and cut traffic accidents 46%; the city, working …
Tecnalia, formed in 2011 by merging eight Basque applied-research centres, reported €137M turnover in 2023 (+7.4%), 741 patents and 17 new deep-tech …
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, …
Curitiba's 1974 Rede Integrada de Transporte, the world's first true Bus Rapid Transit system, now carries roughly 2 million passenger trips a …
Ghana's 2019 Year of Return drew 1.13m international arrivals (+27% YoY) and US$3.3bn in tourism revenue per the Tourism Ministry, then extended …
A 2022 tri-partite deal between Carnegie Mellon, the Mastercard Foundation and Rwanda's government committed $275.7m -- including a $175m perpetual endowment -- …
Since the mid-1970s, Vienna's district renewal offices have guided tenant-led rehabilitation of ageing housing without displacement, upgrading over 142,000 apartments in 2,160 …
Quito's planning authority and an Austrian/Ecuadorian/CIAT research team used the GeoCitizen participatory-GIS platform to run a 2013 land-zoning process on Ilaló Mountain …
Barcelona City Council built the open-source platform Decidim to run participatory budgeting and planning; its 2016 strategic-plan process drew 40,000+ citizens and …
Jordan's ISSF mobilised $108.97m in private capital alongside $98m in World Bank and Central Bank financing, backing ~160 startups and 22 investment …
Porto Alegre's 1989 invention of neighbourhood budget assemblies raised sewer/water coverage from 75% to 98% of households by 1997 and became the …
A decade-long World Bank-financed programme upgraded drainage, roads and utilities in low-income alleys across Ho Chi Minh City and three other Vietnamese …
Innovate UK's KTP scheme embeds graduate associates in businesses to apply university research. An independent evaluation of 2,000 projects (2010–2020) found £1.7–2.3bn …
Launched in 1995, Ahmedabad's Parivartan programme used a four-way cost-share between the city, NGOs, private donors and residents to connect 41 slum …
Since the early 1990s, Namibia's shack-dweller savings groups have secured land tenure for 3,200 households and self-built 1,350 homes at about a …
A 'second-generation' crime-prevention-through-design programme in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township pairs infrastructure upgrading with community safety work; a peer-reviewed 2020 study of 3,625 …
Since 1994, Nicaragua's PRODEL fund has combined small grants for neighbourhood infrastructure with housing and micro-enterprise credit across founding municipalities, reaching 38,000 …
Ireland's Connected Hubs network grew from a 2019 pilot to over 400 co-working hubs in every county by 2025; the wider community-hub …
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