What works in Guadalajara
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Evidence snapshot for Guadalajara
Guadalajara hosts Mexico's leading creative-digital and tech ecosystem, anchored by Ciudad Creativa Digital, Mexico's first creative-digital district, which operates within a Jalisco state tech sector that accounts for 40% of Mexico's IT output and attracted USD 2.76 billion in tech FDI between 2019–2024, creating 40,554 jobs. The city also runs Talent Land, an annual tech talent convention that grew from 33,018 attendees in 2018 to 42,386 registered visitors in 2024, offering up to 30,000 job vacancies; however, all figures are organiser- or government-reported with no independent audit of hiring outcomes or whether attendees stayed working in Jalisco. After state funding cuts in 2024, Talent Land is relocating to Mexico City for 2026, marking the end of its eight-edition run in Guadalajara.
Drawn from: Ciudad Creativa Digital (CCD) — Mexico's First Creative-Digital District · Mexico National Payments for Hydrological Services (PSAH) · Talent Land — Guadalajara's Tech Talent Convention
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +49 pts 100 here · 51 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +32 pts 67 here · 35 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +14 pts 67 here · 53 average
Inclusiveness / equity +9 pts 50 here · 41 average
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -10 pts 50 here · 60 average
Scalability -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Sustainability / continuity -30 pts 50 here · 80 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication -43 pts 17 here · 59 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Guadalajara. 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
Ciudad Creativa Digital (CCD) — Mexico's First Creative-Digital District · 71
Mexico National Payments for Hydrological Services (PSAH) · 60
Talent Land — Guadalajara's Tech Talent Convention · 33
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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