University of Pretoria and the hearX Foundation's free AI WhatsApp chatbot trains teachers to spot childhood hearing loss; 12,000+ South African educators …
Pretoria, South Africa
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 6%87/100
Lithuania's State Data Agency runs a Palantir Foundry data lake connecting ~500 government systems, with 900+ open tables and 238 high-value datasets. …
Running since 2010, Reykjavík's participatory platform uses ML for idea classification, toxicity detection and translation. Over 70,000 residents—58%+ of the city—have participated; …
Reykjavík, Iceland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 1%87/100
Free AI-literacy curriculum for students aged 11–14, launched April 2023: 30,000+ educators trained across 180+ countries, reaching an estimated 2.9 million young …
Belarus has rewetted 89,400 hectares of degraded peatlands since 2007—the largest UNDP-supported peatland restoration programme in Europe—cutting ~3 million tCO₂e over 20 …
Minsk, Belarus
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 1%87/100
Instead of an unwinnable AI-detection arms race, Sydney redesigned assessment into two lanes — secure in-person assessment of core capability, and open …
Sydney, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 1%87/100
Since 2011, Ireland's Revenue Commissioners have used AI risk scoring (REAP) to target tax-compliance interventions; 290,000 data-analytics-driven interventions in 2023 yielded €787m, …
Dublin, Ireland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 1%87/100
Africa's first FSC community forest (2009): MCDI supports 40+ communities managing 410,000+ ha of Tanzanian miombo woodland, with 150,000 ha FSC-certified. REDD+ …
Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 6%87/100
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 …
Tallinn, Estonia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 1%87/100
World's largest forest-based avoided-emissions project: 157,875 ha of tropical peatland in Central Kalimantan verified at 7.5M tCO2e/yr under Verra VCS+CCB Gold, protecting …
Since 2011, companies reward cork-oak landowners in Coruche/Chamusca/Ponte de Sor for FSC-certified good management that protects the Tejo-Sado aquifer and montado biodiversity.