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 …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 23%92/100
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'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 …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 35%67/100
Ecuador's Registro Civil migrated 13.7 million legacy records onto an Innovatrics ABIS platform to issue biometric passports and electronic cédulas from one …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 17%67/100
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 …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 18%60/100
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 …
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 …
Cuenca, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 33%53/100
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 …
Two independent Ecuadorian surveys (4,811 students, 8 universities; 335 students, 1 university) find GenAI use is now routine, but disclosing ChatGPT use …
Loja, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 81%33/100
Ecuador's Galápagos authorities and NGO partners aerially and manually baited the entire 17,250 ha Floreana Island against invasive rats, mice and feral …
Puerto Velasco Ibarra, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 95%20/100
Fundación Reimagina launched AprendoLab, a free AI-assisted micro-learning app for teachers, in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador (with Universidad Casa Grande) in Sept …
A GPT-3 and NLU chatbot built by PUCE researchers, with partners in Ecuador and Spain, answers applicants' questions during admissions. Researchers report …