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LOCA demonstrates how frontier markets can promote green urban mobility through local innovation and sustainable transport solutions.
Promoting national digital ID systems, interoperable systems, and cloud-based infrastructures can make digital financial services more efficient.
Privatization and corporatization can reduce costs, raise productivity, and improve social welfare.
Public spaces help revitalize a city’s environment, culture, tourism, and economy.
Built in 256 BC, the Dujiangyan system harnesses the power of nature to irrigate farmlands and prevent floods in the People’s Republic of China.
By allowing the shared control of data, distributed ledgers can enable innovations that support financial inclusion.
Mainstream gender inclusion and climate resilience into infrastructure development to improve quality of life and meet sustainability goals.
Implement supportive policies, encourage merchant adoption, and integrate digital payments into public services.
Leverage blue bonds, PPPs, and blended finance to direct capital toward nature-based and policy-driven solutions that safeguard river ecosystems.
UAVs enable high-resolution data collection, but their effective integration demands overcoming operational, regulatory, and capacity-related hurdles.