AI & Technology
Identify and test practical applications of AI and emerging technologies within government.
u.lab for Government
Test before you scale.
Government has to make decisions with limited resources and incomplete information. u.lab helps public institutions research problems, test new approaches and develop practical solutions before committing to large-scale implementation.
Where we help
Digital Public Services
Research citizen needs, redesign services and prototype better digital experiences.
Process Improvement
Identify bottlenecks, test new workflows and explore automation opportunities.
Policy Experiments
Design small-scale pilots to test whether a policy or program works before expanding it.
Strategic Research
Research emerging technologies, industries, risks and opportunities relevant to public decision-making.
Innovation Challenges
Bring government, entrepreneurs, researchers and technical teams together to work on specific public-sector problems.
Fix one thing.
You don't need to reform an entire department to prove something works. Pick the one process, service or bottleneck that matters most. We'll help you test a fix at small scale — before it becomes a policy, a budget line, or a promise.
Don't build what you haven't tested.
Large public systems are expensive to get wrong. We run the small pilot first — so the large-scale version is built on evidence, not assumption.
How a public engagement runs
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Problem
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Research
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Experiment
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Evidence
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Decision
We do not publish client names, contracts or results without explicit permission. Any example shown on this site is labelled as an illustrative experiment.
Have a problem worth testing?
Tell us what is not working. We will tell you how we would investigate it — and what a first experiment could look like.
problems@ulabworks.co.zw