TUMO is a free, privately funded after-school tech and creative-arts program in Yerevan, replicated in 15+ countries. An independent 2023 evaluation found …
Since 2019, Portugal's Programa Regressar has given returning emigrants a 50% income-tax break for five years plus IEFP grants; applications hit 36,000+ …
A $30M World Bank IDA grant funded 526 matching grants and rural infrastructure for tourism and agribusiness MSMEs in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan and …
San Salvador's metropolitan planning office (OPAMSS) won an IDB Cities Lab challenge and, with two universities and City Adapt, piloted low-cost green-infrastructure …
Barbados' 12-month remote-work visa, launched April 2020, drew 8,199 applications and 1,381 paid visas by 2023 (min. US$50,000 household income), earning at …
A US$7.5M EU–IDB Lab Innovation Challenge Facility executed by CARIRI has funded 34 Trinidad & Tobago SMEs across two competitive calls (15 …
A fully-funded INCAE accelerator gave 40 Honduran women SME leaders management training and mentoring; 27 of them raised monthly sales by an …
Seoul deployed S-DoT, a network of 1,100 IoT sensors measuring 17 variables every 2 minutes since 2019; a 2020-21 analysis found downtown …
Pakistan's national applied-research council operates laboratory complexes across seven cities, patenting and leasing industrial processes to private companies — 96 processes leased …
Founded in 2011 as 'Malagasy i-Hub' by independent web professionals, Habaka runs Madagascar's longest-standing tech coworking/incubation space, reporting support for roughly 80 …
Opened in 2019, the University of Zimbabwe's Innovation Hub has moved 40 enrolled researcher-innovators into 21 graduate start-ups and 15 registered business …
After Kenya's 2010 devolution, Makueni County built a six-tier participatory budgeting process from village to county level. By FY2016/17, World Bank data …
Since Ley 170-07 (2007), Dominican municipalities must decide part of their capital-investment budget through open community assemblies. Adoption spread from 59 municipalities …
Bosnia's IT companies, organised through Bit Alliance, helped grow national ICT exports to €260m in 2025 (+17% y/y) largely through private initiative …
Punjab's state-run Plan9 incubator says it has graduated 1,100+ startups and created 24,000+ jobs since 2012 across seven cities — but independent …
Citi Foundation and Trust for the Americas' DIA Urban Lab has trained 1,350+ young Jamaicans (16–29) since 2016, funding 88 ventures, adding …
Uzbekistan's e-gov portal offers 700+ services to 4m+ registered users; UN DESA's independent 2024 survey lifted the country 6 places to 63rd …
Oman's first dedicated technology free zone, opened in 2003 near Muscat airport, now hosts 200+ ICT companies including Microsoft, Oracle and HP, …
Morocco's national in-situ upgrading, rehousing and resettlement programme cut the share of urban households living in slums from 8.2% to 4.5% between …
Nigeria's statutory regulator vets foreign tech-licensing, franchise and know-how deals before banks can remit payment abroad. Its DG says reviews blocked ~N265bn …
North Macedonia's FITR fund grew from <$400k to >$18m by 2021, co-financing 800+ SME/start-up projects worth >€100m. Grantee Pixyle.ai turned an €80k …
World Bank-financed KIIDP (2008-2021, $33.6M then $183.7M) gave 1.3M+ Kampala residents road access, beating its target -- but a drainage sub-project lost …
Facing some of the world's worst winter air pollution, Mongolia banned raw coal for household heating in Ulaanbaatar's informal ger districts in …
MinTIC's 'Tu Negocio en Línea' has given free e-commerce websites and training to over 10,700 Colombian merchants and rural producers since 2021, …
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