YouWiN! — Nigeria's Randomized Business Plan Competition for High-Growth Entrepreneurs
Nigeria's YouWiN! randomly granted ~$34m ($50k each) among matched finalists (2011-15, ~24,000 applicants). A World Bank RCT (McKenzie 2017, AER) found ~7,000 …
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Nigeria's YouWiN! randomly granted ~$34m ($50k each) among matched finalists (2011-15, ~24,000 applicants). A World Bank RCT (McKenzie 2017, AER) found ~7,000 …
Ecuador's Superintendencia de Competencia Económica adopted the country's first public-sector AI ethics code in 2025, aligned with UNESCO's AI Recommendation, and opened …
Uruguay's Ceibal and ANEP built an AI grader for the basic-cycle accreditation exam taken by roughly 8,000 mostly out-of-school young people and …
A $65M World Bank-financed programme rehabilitated and extended Lusaka's sewer network, connecting 345,000+ residents to sanitation services -- beating its 305,000 target …
Ecuador's Registro Civil migrated 13.7 million legacy records onto an Innovatrics ABIS platform to issue biometric passports and electronic cédulas from one …
Freetown City Council pays residents to plant and digitally geo-tag trees, verifying survival over multiple years via a tracking app funded by …
A Puebla RCT offered 150 of 432 interested SMEs a year of subsidised IPPC consulting; only 80 took it up. Five years …
Georgia's state innovation agency ran a $40M World Bank programme (GENIE, 2016–2023) that financed 138 startups, created 2,127 jobs (50% women) and …
Since 2018, Laboratoria's income-share-funded six-month bootcamp in Mexico City and Guadalajara has trained low-income women in web development, data analysis and AI …
Montevideo passed Latin America's earliest municipal open-data resolution in 2010 and now runs a CKAN portal with 78 datasets in eight categories; …
Colombia's Constitutional Court uses an NLP tool, PretorIA, to identify and cluster priority cases among 600,000+ annual constitutional-rights filings, cutting case-selection time …
Japan's patent office built an in-house AI system that re-ranks prior-art search results and auto-classifies incoming filings, backed by a nationwide network …
Since 1988, NIST's Hollings MEP has run 400+ centres nationwide advising small manufacturers; an independent study found a 14.5:1 return, but a …
With JICA support, Ethiopia built a standing government institute to disseminate Japanese-style Kaizen management; from 2012/13-2016/17 it trained nearly 69,000 people and …
Paraguay has been part of UNICEF's Accessible Digital Textbooks initiative since 2016 and, in August 2018, became the first country to require …
Since December 2022 the Dominican Republic's MINERD and UNICEF have built AI-converted Accessible Digital Textbooks — audio narration, sign language, image description …
Since 2020, DICT and IBPAP have built ICT roadmaps for 25 Philippine provincial cities to shift IT-BPM jobs from Metro Manila; countryside …
Chile's 1976 public-private technology-transfer institute imported and adapted salmon-farming technology for domestic firms; by 1991 the industry had grown to 56 companies …
Greece's Ministry of Digital Governance contracted OroraTech, with ESA and EU funding, to build a four-satellite constellation giving hourly thermal coverage and …
Ghana's National Identification Authority merged the Ghana Card register with SSNIT's separate pensioner card, cutting duplicate enrolment for 1.9 million people, saving …
Finland's Tax Administration chatbot Virtanen has answered tax and MyTax questions on vero.fi since 2019, handling about 320,000 conversations in 2020 at …
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Finance built Smart Data Finance, an AI platform fusing tax, customs and treasury data into unified profiles covering 1.9M …
Peru's Contraloría General launched the IRI in March 2024, an AI index scoring 190,000+ public investment projects nationwide against 24 indicators from …
Denmark's data-protection and digitalisation agencies jointly run a regulatory sandbox giving organisations free, project-specific guidance on GDPR and EU AI Act risk …
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