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Most practices in: Ecuador (24)
Ecuador's 2020 electoral reform mandated 50/50 alternating gender parity in all candidate lists. Women in the National Assembly rose from ~30% pre-reform …
Banco Pichincha had two blind customers, Mauricio Suárez and Lenin Carrera, help redesign its app's screen-reader navigation, launched in Quito in July …
Ecuador's MINTEL operates 888 community infocentres and 25 megainfocentros across 741 parishes (63% of all parishes), providing free internet and ICT training …
Quito's planning authority and an Austrian/Ecuadorian/CIAT research team used the GeoCitizen participatory-GIS platform to run a 2013 land-zoning process on Ilaló Mountain …
Ecuador adopted a binding WCAG 2.0 AA web-accessibility standard in 2014, enforced via self-certification from 2020 — yet a peer-reviewed 2017 audit …
Ecuador's Superintendencia de Competencia Económica adopted the country's first public-sector AI ethics code in 2025, aligned with UNESCO's AI Recommendation, and opened …
Ecuador's Registro Civil migrated 13.7 million legacy records onto an Innovatrics ABIS platform to issue biometric passports and electronic cédulas from one …
A World Bank RCT gave over 11,400 first-year students at 71 Ecuadorian technical institutes free access to the AI-adaptive ALEKS platform for …
Ecuador's SRI deploys Falcon, cross-referencing 400+ data types to assign each taxpayer a 0–1,000 risk score. In 2023 it identified 60,000 previously …
FONAG, the world's first water fund, was established in 2000 with a 1% surcharge on Quito's water bills, later expanded to include …
Ecuador's national PES since 2008 pays landowners and indigenous communities US$30–60/ha/yr to conserve 1.6M+ ha of native forest and páramo, cutting annual …
Since April 2003, Quito closes a growing north-south corridor every Sunday for cycling, walking and skating — from 9.5km/3,000 users to a …
Since 2000, Pimampiro's municipal water fund has paid 27 upstream households US$8–12 per hectare per year to conserve 638 hectares of forest, …
Cuenca's municipal utility ETAPA has co-managed the ~29,000-hectare Parque Nacional Cajas — source of the rivers that supply the city's drinking water …
GEF-funded campaign by Galápagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation removed 140,000+ feral goats from 500,000+ ha across Pinta, Santiago and …
Since 2021, Ecuador's navy has used MDA's Dark Vessel Detection - a Canadian-funded satellite platform combining RADARSAT-2 and RF analysis - to …
In May 2023 Ecuador closed the world's largest debt-for-nature swap, repurchasing $1.6bn of bonds to redirect roughly $450m over 18 years into …
Two independent Ecuadorian surveys (4,811 students, 8 universities; 335 students, 1 university) find GenAI use is now routine, but disclosing ChatGPT use …
FORAGUA pools water tariff revenues from 14 southern Ecuador municipalities to conserve 337,000 ha of cloud forest and páramo; the ~US$389k annual …
Ecuador's Galápagos authorities and NGO partners aerially and manually baited the entire 17,250 ha Floreana Island against invasive rats, mice and feral …
Fundación Reimagina launched AprendoLab, a free AI-assisted micro-learning app for teachers, in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador (with Universidad Casa Grande) in Sept …
Ecuador's USD 1bn+ 'City of Knowledge' at Yachay opened in 2014 with 187 students; a 2018 state audit found USD 31.4m embezzled …
Ecuador launched a $5.68bn, 30-year plan for a 120,000-resident 'city of knowledge' in 2013. An official Contraloría audit found only 8.8% of …
A GPT-3 and NLU chatbot built by PUCE researchers, with partners in Ecuador and Spain, answers applicants' questions during admissions. Researchers report …
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