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Japan Is Giving Infrastructure AI an Implementation Discipline
Japan's infrastructure ministry has set a national approach for applying AI across planning, construction, maintenance and public administration, alongside a physical-AI strategy focused on field robotics, data and process redesign.
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Latest analysisEngland’s Drought Response Is Now Managing Scarcity and Sudden Flooding at Once
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Latest analysisJapan Is Giving Infrastructure AI an Implementation Discipline
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Latest analysisScotland Has Made Environmental Evidence Mandatory for Large Data Centers
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Latest analysisFiji Is Pairing Policy Reform With Money That Can Move During a Crisis
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Latest analysisMalawi Is Turning Social Protection Into Climate-Response Infrastructure
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Mark and Focus Monthly · September 2026
The Rules of Delivery
Five apparently unrelated decisions reveal how governments and institutions are changing the way policy commitments become operating results.
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Spain’s Smart-City Fund Is Building Local Economic Testbeds
Spain's RedCyTI program will support 52 local and regional projects with more than €94 million, using data platforms, digital twins, laboratories and sector testbeds to connect urban digitization with productive development.
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Australia Is Training Port Teams for Cascading Disruption
A South Australian simulation platform places port teams inside combined cyberattack and extreme-weather scenarios, shifting resilience work from static plans toward the decisions, communications and coordination required during cascading disruption.
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Singapore Is Licensing the Reliability and Resource Use of Digital Infrastructure
Singapore's Digital Infrastructure Bill would license major cloud services and data centers for operational resilience while placing energy efficiency and future water requirements inside a separate sustainability regime.
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Brazil Is Turning an El Niño Forecast Into Water-Allocation Readiness
Brazil's water regulator has built a regional operating plan for the 2026–2027 El Niño, linking monitoring rooms, negotiated allocation, reservoir rules and emergency coordination to different hydrological risks across the country.
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Greensand Turns Carbon Storage From a Permit Into an Operating Chain
Denmark’s Greensand project has moved Europe’s full-scale offshore carbon storage from approval to operation.
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Fiji Is Pairing Policy Reform With Money That Can Move During a Crisis
ADB will provide Fiji with US$200 million for policy reform and US$10 million for disaster financing. The package joins fiscal, digital and risk-management reforms with a funding window intended to respond rapidly when emergencies strike.
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