UNICEF's Yemen country office built its own machine-learning anomaly-detection tool to catch fraud and duplicate records in a cash-transfer programme reaching roughly …
Sana'a, Yemen
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%27/100
Researchers from Rwanda Polytechnic and the University of Rwanda built a fingerprint- and infrared-sensor attendance system at a Musanze secondary school and …
Musanze, Rwanda
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%27/100
Piloted in Kimtang (Nuwakot) and Jyotinagar (Dhading), SAFE-RISCCS combines satellite imagery, rainfall and ground-motion sensors to forecast landslides. After two months its …
ISED's 30-day consultation on Canada's next AI strategy drew 11,300 respondents and 64,600 answers, the largest in the department's history, then used …
Ottawa, Canada
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Algeria paired 2023-2024 forestry and disaster-risk laws with an AI-camera-and-drone fire early-warning pilot in Bejaia province, where 5,300 fires burned 144,000 ha …
UNESCO and Curaçao's government completed the Caribbean's first island-state AI Readiness Assessment: AI use is concentrated in tourism marketing (~40% of operators) …
A randomized study at the University of Cologne found AI-generated custom chatbot explanations in physics lessons significantly cut cognitive load and raised …
Cologne, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Tirana's Boeri-designed 2030 masterplan promised a 2-million-tree orbital forest and river greenbelt; an independent fact-check found municipal planting running at a fraction …
In 2019, Lugano's public innovation lab and IBM Research ran a one-off AI experiment collecting 2,500+ citizen arguments on self-driving vehicles and …
Lugano, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Belarus's statistics agency Belstat built an NLP/machine-learning virtual assistant that gives respondents instant answers to routine queries, freeing staff for complex cases …
Minsk, Belarus
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%27/100
Athens planted nearly 7,500 trees in 18 months and built microforests and cooling gardens across the city; monitored sites recorded surface-temperature drops …
Athens, Greece
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Peru's National Forest Conservation Programme pays indigenous communities with land titles to protect Amazon forest, verified via Geobosques satellite alerts. Since 2010: …
Pucallpa, Peru
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%27/100
Researchers at three Peruvian public universities built the first ChatGPT-based virtual admissions-office assistant, cutting response time to under two minutes (92% accuracy) …
Lima, Peru
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%27/100
Western Pacific University in Ialibu, Southern Highlands Province, launched LearnX, an AI-enabled digital knowledge hub combining an LMS, digital library and student-management …
Ialibu, Papua New Guinea
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Kuwait's EPA has replanted mangroves at Jahra Reserve and Sulaibikhat Bay since the 1990s, after 1960s–70s attempts failed; post-1990 plantings reached ~2.5m …