What works in Panama
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Evidence snapshot for Panama
Panama has undertaken significant infrastructure and innovation investments: a national free public Wi-Fi programme deployed 1,320 access points reaching an estimated 80–84% of the population, and a converted US military base now hosts 260+ resident organisations generating 11,378 jobs and ~$314M in annual value-added. The government has also prioritised digital competency in education, with 1,550 lead teachers cascade-training roughly 52,000 in-service teachers across all 16 educational regions in 2025. However, web accessibility remains a compliance challenge: despite Law 15 mandating accessible public-sector websites, a 2018 audit of 46 sites found 14,571 WCAG 2.0 errors.
Drawn from: Panama's Law 15 Web-Accessibility Mandate Meets a 14,571-Error Reality Check · Internet para Todos – Red Nacional Internet 2.0 (Panama) · Ciudad del Saber — Converting a US Military Base into an Innovation District · Entre Pares 5.0 — Panama's National Teacher AI and Digital Literacy Cascade Programme · Panamá Conecta's AI-Built Fuel Subsidy Platform — Rapid Development, National-Scale Uptake · Panama Canal Authority Watershed Reforestation Incentive Programme · SEM — Panama's Multinational Headquarters Regime · Technovation Girls Panamá — SENACYT's National AI App-Building Programme Reaches Its First Global Finalists
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +19 pts 50 here · 31 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +18 pts 56 here · 37 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +16 pts 67 here · 50 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Innovation level -18 pts 45 here · 63 average
Governance, certification & transferability -20 pts 44 here · 64 average
Transferability / replicability -22 pts 38 here · 59 average
Documented learning -24 pts 50 here · 74 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality -80 pts 0 here · 80 average
Achievement / evidence -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Panama. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Panama's Law 15 Web-Accessibility Mandate Meets a 14,571-Error Reality Check · 84
Internet para Todos – Red Nacional Internet 2.0 (Panama) · 68
Ciudad del Saber — Converting a US Military Base into an Innovation District · 67
Entre Pares 5.0 — Panama's National Teacher AI and Digital Literacy Cascade Programme · 67
Panamá Conecta's AI-Built Fuel Subsidy Platform — Rapid Development, National-Scale Uptake · 53
Panama Canal Authority Watershed Reforestation Incentive Programme · 53
SEM — Panama's Multinational Headquarters Regime · 48
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Panama concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more