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Most practices in: Costa Rica (25)
A university observatory whose evaluation team includes blind testers audited 150 Costa Rican public digital platforms: only 2 reached WCAG A and …
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 public health service (CCSS) uses an AI assistant, CLEO, to contact surgical-waitlist patients via WhatsApp, phone and email, checking records …
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 …
Since 2007 MICITT's CECI network gave free internet and ICT training across Costa Rica (262 active centres in 2014), but independent studies …
Two decades of firm-to-firm tax records show Costa Rican firms that start supplying a multinational buyer add 26% more workers and 4–9% …
CINDE was rated the world's top investment agency by the UN's ITC for 5 straight years (2017-22, 95.27/100 of 85 agencies). It …
Costa Rica's Ministry of Public Education, with CENECOOP, offers 90,000 virtual scholarships for a 32-hour, four-module AI-in-education course, awarding a tri-endorsed digital …
Costa Rica's Contraloría built dIAra: solar cameras plus a neural network spotting people and machinery on public works sites, alerting auditors in …
Costa Rica's social security agency CCSS has piloted LIDIA, an algorithm scanning over a million records in its EDUS digital health system …
Costa Rica's Ministry of Public Education and Intel launched a three-year AI technical specialization in public Colegios Técnicos, starting with 4 schools …
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) …
Costa Rica's 2021 nomad-visa law, in force since August 2022, requires $3,000/month income and grants a renewable one-year stay with tax exemptions; …
Costa Rica's first marine PES scheme pays Gulf of Nicoya mollusk-harvester associations for verified mangrove conservation, scaling from 157 harvesters in 6 …
Costa Rica's UNED became the country's first public university to adopt an institutional AI policy, grounded in a CINED survey of 483 …
Costa Rica's Ministry of Education, with UNESCO, the UN system and ULACIT, launched a seven-chapter national guide in February 2026 setting ethical-use …
Voluntary national standard (INTE G38, Decree 37905-MP-MCM, 2013; revised 2021) under which employers document gender gaps, including in pay, and earn INAMU's …
Costa Rica's public health insurer (CCSS) installed three AI-integrated ultrasound units at Hospital Calderón Guardia in San José in 2026, replacing seven …
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 …
After a University of Costa Rica primatologist found a howler monkey electrocuted crossing a canopy gap, her team strung rope bridges over …
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