What works in San Francisco
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Evidence snapshot for San Francisco
San Francisco's Citywide Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout shows the city scaled generative AI access from a six-month pilot of 2,000+ employees—who self-reported productivity gains of up to five hours per week—to approximately 30,000 workers across 40+ departments by mid-2026, logging over one million Copilot interactions. ShelterTech's ShelterConnect programme reports installing free WiFi in 24 San Francisco shelters and supportive-housing sites, serving roughly 16,000 monthly users and 150,000 annually through its combined WiFi and service directory. However, these reports are self-reported rather than independently verified, and the productivity claims lack third-party evaluation.
Drawn from: Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · ShelterConnect — Free WiFi Networks for San Francisco's Shelters and SROs · Ava — Deaf-Founded AI and Human Hybrid Live Captioning for Group Conversations · San Francisco's Citywide Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout — From a 2,000-Employee Pilot to 30,000 City Workers · Salesforce's Annual Equal Pay Assessment — Statistical Pay Audits and Adjustments for Gender and Race · Lyft Women+ Connect: Gender-Based Rider-Driver Matching in the US Gig Economy · ClassDojo Translate — AI-Powered Real-Time Translation for Family-School Communication · Hetch Hetchy Filtration-Avoidance Watershed Protection (San Francisco, USA)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Scalability beyond pilot +38 pts 100 here · 62 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Sustainability +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Governance, certification & transferability +20 pts 83 here · 64 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Evidence of learning impact -26 pts 0 here · 26 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Evaluated outcomes -46 pts 33 here · 79 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: San Francisco. 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
Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · 96
ShelterConnect — Free WiFi Networks for San Francisco's Shelters and SROs · 92
Ava — Deaf-Founded AI and Human Hybrid Live Captioning for Group Conversations · 72
Lyft Women+ Connect: Gender-Based Rider-Driver Matching in the US Gig Economy · 63
ClassDojo Translate — AI-Powered Real-Time Translation for Family-School Communication · 47
Hetch Hetchy Filtration-Avoidance Watershed Protection (San Francisco, USA) · 47
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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
Already adopted in 3 other places
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
Already adopted in 4 other places
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- 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