applied tools

Interactive tools, data products, and applications built by Policy Lab. Things people can use, not just read about – from medical diagnostics to island-level data to planning workshop tools.

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Tools and data resources you can use today.

Island data
Island Data Explorer
Demographics, infrastructure, transport, elections, projects, and news for 21 islands across AA, F, and M atolls. Built from census data, budget documents, election results, and transport schedules. Currently funded to cover three atolls; further funding enables nationwide rollout.
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Data gallery
Social Sector Data Gallery
Screenshottable charts and maps built from census, survey, and administrative data. Designed for students, researchers, and academics to use in reports, presentations, and papers.
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Directory
Atoll Service Directory
Every FCSC, health facility, police station, court, and CSO mapped across 20 atolls. Searchable by island and service type.
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Timeline
Social Policy Legislation Timeline
Interactive filterable timeline of social policy laws from 1927 to 2025. Browse legislative history by topic, decade, and policy area.
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Nutrition data
NutritionMV
The first open collection of nutrition profiles for Maldivian food. Starting with shorteats – hedhikaa – with more categories coming as the project expands.
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Economic development
Remote Office Hub Toolkit
Complete operational package for establishing remote office facilities on islands: hiring brochure, hub license agreement, and standard operating procedures with governance, infrastructure standards, and KPI targets.
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Projects in development

Tools we are building

Work-in-progress projects at various stages. Some are early demos we use in our own work, others are awaiting funding or partnerships for public rollout.

In development
Medical AI
AIMED – AI Medical Diagnostics
A platform for uploading standard medical imaging files – chest X-rays, CT scans, mammograms, retinal images – and running peer-reviewed, open-source AI diagnostic models against them to screen for risk of dozens of conditions. We are currently working on bringing the CPU-based models online for public use, with GPU-based models (Pillar-0, Sybil, Mirai) available for hospital or clinic partnerships.
Coming online soon
In development
Foresight methodology
Digital Foresight Planning Tools
Six interactive tools for structured foresight workshops – influence mapping, futures wheel, scenario lab, strategic compass, vision pathways, and a combined planning report. The goal is to replace marker-and-flipboard approaches with collaborative screen-based tools that save outputs and generate detailed reports at the end of planning sessions. We use these in the workshops we facilitate; they will be more broadly available as they mature.
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In development
AI · Government tools
Standard Prompter
AI prompting tool that generates expert-level prompts for government document types – cabinet papers, SOPs, research designs, UN formats. Detailed prompts often run to a full page of specific instructions. Customized for each office's formats, style guides, and reference documents.
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In development
Policy analysis
Policy Builder
An interactive policy analysis tool that builds on the UNESCAP SP2LNOB framework and extends it to include non-cash interventions, making it a more comprehensive tool for designing social protection responses. Guides users through targeting and eligibility, benefit design, implementation planning, staffing, and capacity requirements – then generates a structured policy analysis document. Planned for wider rollout once funding mechanisms are secured.
Coming soon
Planned
Budget data
Budget Transparency Tools
Interactive exploration of Maldives government budget data – PSIP project tracking, spending comparisons, projection accuracy analysis. Full tools released when development partners are secured.
Coming soon
Planned
Island data
Nationwide Island Data
Expanding the Island Data Explorer from three atolls to all inhabited islands nationwide. Additional funding enables rollout of the same methodology across the country.
Coming soon
Planned
Nutrition data
Expanded NutritionMV
Extending nutrition profiles beyond shorteats to curries, rice dishes, sweets, and drinks. Building toward a comprehensive Maldivian food composition database.
Coming soon
Available as services

What we can build for you

Foresight workshop facilitation

We facilitate strategic planning workshops using our digital foresight tools. Teams work on-screen with structured methodology, and leave with a detailed planning report generated from their session.

Standard Prompter customization

We configure the Standard Prompter for your office's specific document types, style guides, and institutional conventions. Your staff get AI-assisted drafting tuned to your organization.

Custom data tools & visualizations

Policy Lab builds custom data products, interactive analyses, and visualization tools. If your organization needs a data product or decision-support tool, get in touch.

Policy analysis consulting

Research, policy briefs, institutional assessments, and strategic analysis. We bring the same analytical rigour we apply to our own publications. Contact us.