Transport Scotland's Plugged-in Places project provides 100% funding to buy domestic charging points, which will be installed by energy firm SSE.
Agency officials say they must use money from earmarks if they are required to put in place projects that they did not include in their budgets.
"An extension of the TPS will give the government some respite to put in place projects to improve living conditions in the country".
Yet within China's borders the Communist Party has systematically put in place projects such as the Great Firewall, which keeps out "undesirable" foreign websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and Golden Shield, which monitors activities within China.
For example, the government's National Solidarity Program is providing block grants for community programs -- allowing nearly 8,000 towns and villages to identify their most pressing needs and put in place projects that take care of them.
Now, UNICEF, the Comorian Government and other partners have put in place a major project to bring clean drinking water to the country's population.
"The purpose of putting in place these first projects was to see what would work and that is what we are doing".
Those who couldn't pass up such a chance headed through the doors, where for $5 they could experience "Sideshow," a combination festival and art exhibit held to benefit the Art in Odd Places project, held in October.
Commenting on the difficulties of having 12 different systems in place, Brian Taylor, project manager at the local authority, told Government Computing that the set-up had caused a lot of duplication.
With a connected targeted audience in place, the project used social media to show how it was promoting economic development, and the funders did not have to wait for an official success story or a report to begin seeing results.
