Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied for better public infrastructure investment and asset governance outcomes
Why, What, and How?
Navigating the intersection of Public Finance and AI Revolutions
AI tools and capabilities are developing rapidly. This site is intended as a dynamic resource that identifies and demonstrates ways in which good-practice AI applications can be deployed to use cases intended to improve the way public sectors, whether at National, Sub-National, or State-Owned Enterprise levels, deliver public investment program/project flows and management non-financial asset stocks (real infrastructure, land, and property, as well as relevant digital information) outcomes (e.g., public services, revenue mobilization, risk reduction that translate into prosperity and jobs creation).
Applied well, AI in the public sector can deliver significant returns on investment (ROI). Ministries of Finance can play a leading role in raising awareness, testing applications, and learning about AI adoption opportunities and innovations. Harnessing artificial intelligence includes leveraging open-source technology and open and geospatial data to improve how governments invest in public infrastructure. The site brings together a set of global digital public good tools and data repositories to help policy makers and PIM-PAM practitioners in both advanced and developing country contexts achieve better results in terms of development impacts and value for money.
Global PIM Knowledge
Search and analyze guidance from leading international institutions. Extract insights from a curated set of global best practice documents on public investment management, a full collection of World Bank Public Finance Reviews (PFR)/Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs), and public IMF Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMA). Global good practices and country experiences at your fingertips.
pim-ai-global.vercel.appGood Practice PIM & PAM
pim-pam.net provides a one-stop resource of Knowledge and Learning concerning policies and projects. The emphasis of the site is to nurture productive and value-for-money public investment programs and projects, as well as the effective utilization and maintenance of real infrastructure, land, and property, and non-financial assets. Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer powerful tools to realize these objectives, as assessed by measurable outcomes. In turn, the resources seek to mitigate the risks of poorly designed and implemented programs and projects, as well as address challenges such as climate change. Real-world peer learning insights from advanced and developing country settings.
pim-pam.netCountry PIM Policy Profile Repository
Global Public Investment Management (PIM) Policies AI Repository provides a systematic online resource for the comparative review of de jure institutional contexts, as well as online decision support for core and climate-informed project preparation, resourcing, and delivery. The PIM Policies repository is a dynamic resource designed to capture all relevant national and, as pertinent, sub-national PIM policy guidelines.
pim-policyrepository4.vercel.appPublic Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database
The Geospatial Planning and Budgeting (GPB) Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) tool helps in evaluating the financial and economic feasibility of your public investment project. The Global Public Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database compiles a set of open-access reference projects. These serve to provide a comparative, interoperable data standard for project feasibility appraisals, including risk assessments of potential cost and time overruns, as well as the ability to monetize socio-economic benefits.
gpbp-ecba.appPIM AI Coach
An AI-powered coaching assistant for Public Investment Management. Ask questions about international PIM best practices, national policies, and regulatory frameworks. The module has refined its promotion scripts to generate rapid, well-documented insights across the full PIM cycle. The PIM AI Coach leverages the curated digital public goods Good Practice PIM & PAM, Country PIM Policy Profile Repository, and the Public Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database. Country-level practitioners can use these demonstrations to orient native-language and in-house AI for PIM-PAM deployments.
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How It All Fits Together
The PIM AI Coach integrates three curated data sources, grounded in knowledge and peer learning resources, to deliver contextual decision support across the full public investment cycle.
Public Investment Management (PIM) AI Coach
Global PIM Good Practices Resources
National PIM Policies and Strategies
Public Investment Project Appraisal Reference Database
Knowledge and Peer Learning Resources
Insights
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