{"name":"Applied AI in Bolivia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Bolivia, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/bolivia","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Bolivia","slug":"bolivia","iso2":"BO","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":16,"deployments":11,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":2,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":16},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Bolivia","role":"Network investment planners","org":"Viva (NuevaTel PCS de Bolivia)","text":"Viva, run by NuevaTel PCS de Bolivia, now steers network spending with Totogi Ontology, an AI investment planning platform from US firm Totogi that scores each cell site on revenue, beyond raw traffic. Commercial and network systems on premises and in Microsoft's Azure cloud feed the platform, tying site performance to Viva's SuperApp and advertising arm without replacing existing systems. The third-largest operator, with about 2.5 million customers, applies this capex modelling across all sites.","date":"2026-10-02","source":"https://www.bnamericas.com/es/noticias/viva-bolivia-ia-y-nube-de-microsoft-para-un-giro-al-gasto"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","org":"Gobernación de Santa Cruz","text":"The Gobernación de Santa Cruz is bankrolling 1,000 seats of AI training for young people aged 18 to 30 with Toronto's Vital Dignity Academy, via its Departmental Directorate of Educational Management. 200 free, 800 79%-subsidised. Sign-up closes 6 October; the youth AI course, on leading and tomorrow's jobs, spans mid-October to mid-December.","date":"2026-10-01","source":"https://www.reduno.com.bo/noticias/gobernacion-de-santa-cruz-lanza-1-000-becas-para-jovenes-en-inteligencia-artificial-y-liderazgo-202610113026"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Bolivia","org":"Ipsos (AI Monitor 2026)","text":"Ipsos CIESMORI's Bolivia results in the Ipsos AI Monitor 2026 show 70% of workers reporting time saved through AI at work over the past year, eight points above the 62% global mean. Some 69% of Bolivians report understanding AI, 57% feel excited about AI products and 51% uneasy about workplace AI.","date":"2026-09-29","source":"https://www.economy.com.bo/articulo/economia/ia-gana-espacio-como-herramienta-trabajo-70-ahorra-tiempo-bolivia/20260929182715024222.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","role":"Judge","org":"Tribunal Supremo de Justicia","text":"Bolivia's Tribunal Supremo de Justicia is piloting AI assistants for judges and litigants together with a digital case file, court president Romer Saucedo confirmed. Paper case files still dominate the courts and, in Saucedo's account, invite bribes for sight of a file or a photocopy, whereas an online file would reach a citizen by mobile phone. AI in the courts arrives at a judiciary living on roughly 0.35% of the national budget and pressing for 5%.","date":"2026-09-07","source":"https://oxigeno.bo/presidente-del-tsj-pide-una-asamblea-constituyente-para-que-se-asigne-mayores-recursos-al-organo-judicial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","role":"Customs broker","org":"Aduana Nacional de Bolivia","text":"Bolivia's Aduana Nacional has launched AranBUS, AI customs classification running on natural language processing to speed dispatches and cut misclassification of goods. A basic level answers quick, exact queries; an advanced level reads synonyms and dense technical context for operators and the wider public. The AI tariff search came bundled with RecaudoMETRO, posting key tax collection openly every seven minutes, and the Mi Aduana app for entrepreneurs, operators and travellers. Executive president Alberto Soto de la Vía called it a customs service that is modern, efficient and fully transparent.","date":"2026-08-27","source":"https://lapatria.bo/enfoque-nacional/gestion/aduana-nacional-presenta-nuevo-ecosistema-digital/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","org":"Ministerio de Educación de Bolivia","text":"Bolivia's government has opened 5,000 Google Career Launchpad places, plus 100 for tutor teachers, in AI skills training launched by President Rodrigo Paz. Applicants aged 18 and over — students, entrepreneurs, young people at large — get six months of free Google Skills study spanning artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data analysis, cloud computing and other emerging fields. Holders take 50% off official Google Cloud certification exams; Paz cast the digital training push as the way to close a technology gap, citing possible pay rises of 15% to 25%.","date":"2026-08-26","source":"https://correodelsur.com/politica/20260826/gobierno-lanza-mas-de-5-000-becas-google-para-capacitar-a-jovenes-bolivianos-en-competencias-digitales.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","role":"Public servant","org":"Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente","text":"Bolivia's Ministry of Planning, Development and Environment launched BolivIA, state-built AI for legal research that lets public servants query laws, decrees and resolutions, citing the exact instruments. Minister Fernando Romero Pinto says research drops from hours to seconds, using only current regulation, in what the ministry calls step one of a wider state AI strategy.","date":"2026-08-09","source":"https://www.urgente.bo/noticia/planificacion-lanza-bolivia-el-primer-modelo-de-inteligencia-artificial-del-estado"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","role":"Government communications officer","org":"Government of Bolivia","text":"Bolivia's government has published an AI-generated government video reconstructing the police raid that took Uruguayan trafficker Sebastián Marset in Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The animation follows officers into two luxury properties at around 3 AM on the Friday of the arrest, clearing the house holding Marset's armed guards first. Generative AI produced the sequence, out within hours of the raid.","date":"2026-03-16","source":"https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Ciencia-y-Tecnologia/Paso-por-paso-video-IA-del-gobierno-boliviano-recrea-la-captura-de-Marset-uc956096"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","role":"Prosecutor","org":"Ministerio Público de Bolivia","text":"Bolivia's Ministerio Público has run ARGO, the house-arrest arm of the ROMA–ARGO platform, since 10 March 2026, and AI house-arrest monitoring now reaches 275 people via a digital geofence, SkyFace facial recognition prompting random check-ins, and SONUS voice matching against the identity a judge authorised. Armando Corral Davezies, the Ministerio Público's technology director, puts the tally past 44,133 biometric check-ins on a platform needing no standing human oversight. In a Cochabamba field test the biometric supervision system caught a breach, georeferenced it and raised alerts inside three minutes.","date":"2026-03-10","source":"https://eju.tv/2026/07/argo-monitoreo-inteligente-del-ministerio-publico-ya-vigila-a-275-personas-con-detencion-domiciliaria-en-bolivia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Bolivia","role":"Entrepreneur","org":"Fundación Emprender Futuro","text":"Free WhatsApp coaching for small business owners in Bolivia now runs through Arien, an AI assistant for entrepreneurs from Fundación Emprender Futuro and partner Banco de Crédito de Bolivia (BCP). Debuting at Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW 2025), it skips separate downloads and walks users through ChatGPT prompt techniques, cryptocurrency basics, QR payment setup, catalogue design and money-saving habits. Workers and founders alike can tap this AI-powered digital skills chatbot to build stronger tech and money management abilities.","date":"2025-11-17","source":"https://laoctavabo.com/2025/11/17/emprender-futuro-lanza-a-arien-el-asistente-de-ia-que-impulsa-el-aprendizaje-en-whatsapp/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","org":"Cámara de Senadores de Bolivia / AGETIC","text":"AGETIC gains oversight of Bolivia AI regulation now that the Senate cleared Proyecto de Ley N° 178/2024-2025, the nation's first sweeping AI rulebook. Within 180 days a National AI Strategy must follow, alongside duties on transparency, security and human rights, plus bans on social scoring, warrantless mass facial recognition and subliminal manipulation. Titled \"Promoción, Gestión y Uso de la Inteligencia Artificial,\" the bill awaits the Chamber of Deputies to finalise Bolivia's artificial intelligence governance framework.","date":"2025-10-22","source":"https://informeexclusivo.com.bo/senado-aprueba-proyecto-de-ley-que-garantiza-el-buen-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Bolivia","org":"Cámara de Senadores, Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional","text":"The Cámara de Senadores passed Proyecto de Ley N° 178/2024-2025, 'Promoción, Gestión y Uso de la Inteligencia Artificial', a Bolivia AI regulation of 31 articles and two transitional provisions. The bill would create the Autoridad de Regulación de la Inteligencia Artificial (ARIA), ban seven practices including subliminal manipulation and mass facial recognition without a court order, and set duties for high-risk systems. AGETIC would gain powers to supervise and sanction AI (IA) use and would draft the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial within 180 days. The proposed AI law still awaits final approval in the Cámara de Diputados.","date":"2025-10-22","source":"https://www.vision360.bo/noticias/2025/10/22/33836-senado-aprueba-proyecto-de-ley-que-garantiza-el-buen-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Bolivia","role":"Banking operations officer","org":"Banco Nacional de Bolivia (BNB)","text":"BNB (Banco Nacional de Bolivia) built AI in banking operations that freeze, release and suspend accounts under judicial orders with no manual steps, lowering mistakes and legal exposure. Felaban crowned its agentic AI tool, Orquestación de Agentes de IA, top AI Innovation for Banks entry at CLAB 2025, ahead of competitors tackling similar court-driven compliance work.","date":"2025-10-20","source":"https://www.economy.com.bo/articulo/banca-finanzas/bnb-obtiene-premio-innovacion-ia-bancos-digital-innovation-award-clab-2025-felaban/20251020184048020811.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Bolivia","role":"Content producer / creator","org":"Boomerang Stream","text":"Simón Bolívar returns as an AI-recreated podcast host on Boomerang Stream's \"Un Casacho con Simón\", pulling one million views within seven days. Actor Luis Bredow lends the performance, blended with digital post-production so this virtual interviewer built with AI can question guests from Bolivia's culinary, cultural and film scenes.","date":"2025-10-13","source":"https://portalverde.com.bo/simon-bolivar-vuelve-gracias-a-la-ia-y-a-casa-real-para-entrevistar-a-bolivianos-destacados/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Bolivia","role":"Teacher","org":"Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN)","text":"The Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN) in La Paz, Bolivia, premiered Biopochito AI with 60 students from Colegio Ruso Boliviano, who used the AI science education app to spot biodegradable waste, assemble robots out of reused scrap and study how nature is protected. Built by the International Green Science Center for Latin America and the Caribbean (IGSCLAC) with the Andean Road Countries for Science and Technology (ARCST), this AI-powered science learning tool reframes difficult ecological and scientific ideas as play-based games and tasks for children and young people.","date":"2025-08-28","source":"https://anabolivia.org/biopochito-ai-impulsa-la-educacion-cientifica-para-ninos-ninas-y-jovenes/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Bolivia","role":"Customer service representative","org":"Cooperativa Rural de Electrificación (CRE)","text":"CREcencio now runs non-stop WhatsApp support for Cooperativa Rural de Electrificación (CRE), an AI chatbot for customer service fielding hundreds of outage reports, QR payments, consumption checks and bills together, 24/7. Answers rely on artificial intelligence and remembered chat history, not scripts; no purchased AI virtual assistant platform was used — CRE coded it in-house.","date":"2025-01","source":"https://elmundo.com.bo/cre-activa-a-crecencio-para-consultas-por-whatsapp/"}]}