What works in Denver
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Evidence snapshot for Denver
Denver has adopted multiple innovations across governance, citizen services, and environmental management. The city launched Sunny, a generative-AI 311 chatbot that handled 12% of all citizen-service inquiries by June 2024, though no independent impact audit has been published. Denver Water has invested nearly $96 million (2010–2027) treating 120,000+ acres of watershed forest in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service to reduce wildfire and erosion risk. Additionally, Driver's Seat Cooperative, a worker-owned data cooperative for gig workers, tracked over 5 million trips and was active in Denver, where an independent study analyzed 6,079 rides to assess driver pay.
Drawn from: Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) — Mandatory Salary Transparency and Pay Equity · Sunny — Denver's Generative-AI 311 Chatbot Reaches 12% of Citizen Inquiries and Spawns a Copycat in Aurora · MagicSchool AI — generative-AI tools for teachers · Driver's Seat Cooperative — A Driver-Owned Data Cooperative for U.S. Gig Workers · Denver Water — From Forests to Faucets Watershed Protection Partnership (USA) · RouteWise AI — AI-Optimized School Bus Routing Recovers Instructional Hours in Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora and Dayton · Aira ASL — On-Demand Sign-Language Interpreting Across Colorado State Services
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +94 pts 100 here · 6 average
Efficiency +67 pts 100 here · 33 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Effectiveness +32 pts 100 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Transferability / replicability +29 pts 89 here · 60 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Evidence of learning impact +24 pts 50 here · 26 average
Scalability & sustainability +21 pts 83 here · 62 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Innovation level +18 pts 80 here · 62 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +13 pts 50 here · 37 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Governance, certification & transferability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Sustainability -23 pts 56 here · 78 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Denver. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) — Mandatory Salary Transparency and Pay Equity · 100
MagicSchool AI — generative-AI tools for teachers · 73
Driver's Seat Cooperative — A Driver-Owned Data Cooperative for U.S. Gig Workers · 71
Denver Water — From Forests to Faucets Watershed Protection Partnership (USA) · 67
Aira ASL — On-Demand Sign-Language Interpreting Across Colorado State Services · 32
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more