Banco ADOPEM and researchers randomly assigned 1,193 Santo Domingo microentrepreneurs to standard accounting training, simplified rule-of-thumb training, or none. The simplified course …
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 59%68/100
República Digital, a 2016-2021 Dominican Republic programme distributing laptops, netbooks and tablets to teachers and students, was found by an independent Oxfam/FLACSO …
Evolved from the 2003 CEI-RD into ProDominicana in 2017, the agency coordinates Dominican trade/investment promotion; exports hit a record $15.9bn in 2025 …
Since December 2022 the Dominican Republic's MINERD and UNICEF have built AI-converted Accessible Digital Textbooks — audio narration, sign language, image description …
A 2006–2008 RCT with 1,193 Banco ADOPEM clients in Santo Domingo tested simplified 'rule-of-thumb' financial training against standard accounting courses. Rule-of-thumb trainees …
Since Ley 170-07 (2007), Dominican municipalities must decide part of their capital-investment budget through open community assemblies. Adoption spread from 59 municipalities …
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 43%53/100
Dominican Republic's InvestmentMap 2.0 (December 2025) adds an AI chatbot to the national public investment system (SNIP), letting citizens query project data, …
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 89%48/100
Operating since 2000, the Parque Cibernético de Santo Domingo tech free-trade zone has trained 30,000+ technologists via its ITLA institute, though its …
Boca Chica, Dominican Republic
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 83%40/100
The Dominican Republic's higher-education ministry partnered with US vendor Jinso Labs to deliver free AI-personalised English tutoring via WhatsApp, targeting 50,000 students …
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 64%40/100