Maldives Floating City — An Untested Answer to Sea-Level Rise, Clouded by Controversy
A 5,000-unit floating city planned for a Malé lagoon to demonstrate flood-proof urbanism — but its 2027 completion target has slipped with …
A 5,000-unit floating city planned for a Malé lagoon to demonstrate flood-proof urbanism — but its 2027 completion target has slipped with …
Ecuador launched a $5.68bn, 30-year plan for a 120,000-resident 'city of knowledge' in 2013. An official Contraloría audit found only 8.8% of …
Iceland's high-income-threshold remote-worker visa drew just 65 applications and 10 actual relocations in its first four months, with no further public uptake …
The implementing approach of the EIT Gender Equality Policy is through the introduction of a Gender Equality Plan (GEP), which sets out …
In the 2000s France opted for parity as the means to remedy women’s chronic underrepresentation in politics, a phenomenon that had persisted …
Sofia Municipality's volunteer-driven 'New Forest' is building a green belt of oak saplings near Negovan; a 2022 autumn drive planted 4,500 saplings …
Sand dams in Ukambani, Kenya: 97-dam study found water in 57% of dams but only 43% in active use and no average …
Tallinn is converting an old railway line into a 13 km pollinator corridor linking six districts; sensor data from summer 2022 show …
North Macedonia launched "Vezilka," a EUR 6M national AI centre led by university faculty FINKI and co-financed by the Ministry of Digital …
Slovenia's SLAIF pairs a new EuroHPC-funded supercomputer with a five-university, industry and government consortium to build a national pipeline of AI-skilled students, …
In May 2026 the Bernese municipality of Muri bei Bern replaced an eight-year paper-voucher scheme with BIDI, a Hedera-blockchain token pegged 1:1 …
Launched in 2008 in Sabah's Malua Forest Reserve, the Malua BioBank set aside 34,000 hectares of logged rainforest and sold tradable Biodiversity …
Guatemala's Organismo Judicial spent Q1.3 million (~US$167,000) on AI tools to analyse amparo petitions, awarding all 15 contracts to one vendor in …
For its 2025 admissions exam, IPB University in Bogor used AI-assisted proctoring (dual cameras, real-time chat, log-anomaly detection) for ~3,600 applicants, backed …
Mongolia's digital ministry signed a three-year MoU with Oracle to train 1,000 student 'AI Ambassadors' and fund 300 AI-related master's and doctoral …
A presidential decree orders AI into all Kazakh secondary schools by 2029. A 500-school, three-year pilot starts 1 September in Kyzylorda and …
Macau's education bureau is funding AI experimental classrooms in schools from 2026/27, building on MOP 15 million already spent on AI software …
Telkom Foundation, BCX and Alibaba Cloud partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand in September 2026 to give about 165 third-year computer …
Google switched on Gemini by default for all K-12 students in Google Classroom in 2026 with only days of notice to schools. …
Since opening its first therapeutic forest in 2009, South Korea's Forest Service has certified 64 'Healing Forests' with trained instructors; a 2021 …
Busan ran a 2025 pilot AI Agent for its "120" complaints hotline (219,108 calls in 2024; 108,703 in H1 2025), using a …
From September 2026, École polytechnique requires all second-year Cycle Ingénieur Polytechnicien students to take a roughly 35-hour mandatory AI course spanning algorithmic …
Utica, NY's $3.7M Evolv AI weapons scanner missed a knife used in an October 2022 stabbing; the FTC later ruled Evolv deceived …
The Marae Moana Act 2017 made the Cook Islands' 1.9-million-km2 EEZ a marine park, 16% under strict no-take protection — but since …
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