Costa Rica's national telecom fund connected 287,242 households in poverty with subsidised 5 Mbps internet and laptops (2016–2024). An external evaluation found …
Costa Rica's national PES, created by the 1996 Forest Law, has paid landowners US$565M to conserve 1.15M+ hectares for carbon, water, biodiversity …
Costa Rica's 2009 Electoral Code mandates 50% women on all candidate lists with strict vertical and horizontal alternation and electoral sanctions; women …
Costa Rica's Poder Judicial has run ChatbotPJ since 2018 to answer routine questions and, since 2023, judicial-collection case status 24/7. It reports …
Costa Rica’s tax directorate uses the open-source CIAT e-IAD ML model to detect anomalies in e-invoices. By 2026 it exposed a ~₡80 …
Costa Rica's Ministry of Public Education, with the UN, UNESCO and ULACIT, launched an ethics-and-safety guide for AI in classrooms (Feb–Mar 2026) …
Heredia's public utility ESPH has charged customers a watershed fee (US$0.01-0.03/m3) since 2000 to pay upstream landowners ~US$120/ha/year, reaching ~1,900 ha under …
Costa Rica's REDCUDI childcare network aims to free mothers for paid work, but 2024 data show it reaches only 8.8% of its …
Since 2000, Costa Rica's Heredia water utility ESPH has charged customers a dedicated water tariff to fund direct payments to upstream landowners …
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