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The Citizen Innovation Laboratories (LABIC) are an efficient methodology to generate innovative solutions between citizens and institutions for the common good. These solutions focus on the most pressing issues of the 2030 agenda, they are replicable, scalable and generate concrete benefits for affected communities. They are an innovation in the field of cooperation in development because they empower the citizens of Latin-American and European countries and make them the main protagonist of…

The Buenos Aires City Government launched Climate Action, an open data platform that brings together energy efficiency, sustainability and waste management policies to combat climate change in the city. The platform is based on transparency, co-creation, collaboration, citizen participation, accountability and innovation. BA Climate Action was co-created with civil society organizations, environmental experts and citizens.

INDECOPI has implemented a new project called “Voluntary Removal of Regulatory Barriers to Competition” based on the use of social norms in official documents and data dashboards to monitor the removal of bureaucratic barriers across the country. Through this, civil servants compare their performance in eliminating barriers with their peers and adapt their behavior towards high-quality regulation.

INDECOPI, the agency of competition in Peru, has created a specialized unit called “Effective Compliance Team”, which incorporates behavioral insights (framing effect) in their communication with other government institutions. Through this innovation, the government has a cost-effective tool to incentivize compliance, ensure the understanding of other institutions about bureaucratic barriers to competition, and benefit economic agents in the market and overall, the citizens of Peru.

‘Neyim Var’ application is an expert system application that asks various questions with the algorithm prepared in accordance with the medical guidelines together with the complaints of the citizens, evaluates the past medical records, offers a total of 5 possible diagnoses with the support of artificial intelligence and directs the patient to 3 appropriate clinics.

Better Insights into Collective Climate Actions: The currently fragmented, insufficient and incompatible sources building the climate data framework remain a critical threat to a successful outcome of the 2023 Global Stocktake for the Paris Agreement. While we observe an increasing amount of participation, effective ways of connecting, visualizing and analysing actors patterns & impact, within the overall climate initiatives, remain limited.

The techDetector is the first technology radar giving an overview of emerging technologies that have the potential to influence the area of sustainable development in the future. It lists future technologies from all sectors of sustainable development and assesses their potential impact on sustainability and gender equality. The techDetector helps inform, sensitize and support foresight processes, enabling better decision-making by providing sound information on technological developments.

Seeding Drive to disperse millions of Samar seeds across stretches of land. To quickly and efficiently disperse the seeds, MOCCAE used drones with specialized seed-dispersing mechanisms. MOCCAE spread the seeds across seven locations- the total area covered during seeding was 21 sqkm. MOCCAE dispersed approximately 6 million and follow up the important areas with one million seeds, we got result of 12.19% growth rate with time and cost efficiency.

The TAP portal is a unique e-government system at the European Union level, which ensures the development of digital government legislation, moving from documents to structured data. The TAP portal ensures the proceedings of the meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers and allows every citizen of Latvia to follow the progress of the Government's decision-making and express an opinion on the regulatory acts being developed by the Government.

„Gemeinsam Digital: Berlin“(Together Digital: Berlin) combines the digital and smart city strategies. We define smart as solving future challenges in creative, open, experimental and participatory ways. This strategy helps to establish new work approaches, agile methods, competence building, and a systematic knowledge transfer between the administration and its inhabitants. By aligning technologies, methods, and cultural processes, it supports existing strategies to reach their respective…