{"name":"Applied AI in Curaçao — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Curaçao, 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/curacao","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":"Curaçao","slug":"curacao","iso2":"CW","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":6,"deployments":4,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":2,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":6},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Curaçao","role":"Insurance inspector","org":"Social Insurance Bank (SVB) of Curaçao","text":"Curaçao's Social Insurance Bank (SVB) applies AI healthcare fraud detection to flag incorrect, unnecessary or illegitimate billing. Analysts and inspectors verify flagged cases via site checks and patient interviews, pairing automated anomaly detection in medical billing with human review rather than automation alone.","date":"2026-09-24","source":"https://www.curacaochronicle.com/post/unknown/svb-intensifies-checks-on-healthcare-billing-using-ai-and-data-analysis"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Curaçao","role":"Filmmaker","org":"Curaçao Innovation Hub","text":"Curaçao Innovation Hub placed second worldwide at the SparkVision AI Film Festival 2026, a contest open only to work made 100 percent with artificial intelligence. The Ministry of Economic Development (MEO) released the placing, casting the hub's AI filmmaking as what emerging technology and innovation yield beside Curaçao's culture, language, identity and local talent, and as proof the island can compete internationally in fast-moving technological and creative industries. Makers of the AI-generated short film say the point was to let people see and feel a possible island future, one now waiting to be built.","date":"2026-08","source":"https://www.curacaochronicle.com/post/unknown/curacao-innovation-hub-takes-second-place-worldwide-at-ai-film-festival"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Curaçao","org":"Government of Curaçao","text":"Educators, scientists, firms, civic groups and officials are being invited to shape Curaçao's national AI strategy under a fresh push from the Government and its Regulatory Authority (RAC). Sithree van Heydoorn heads this effort, drawing on the UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment and Caribbean AI Policy Roadmap to steer the territory's AI policy development.","date":"2026-07-14","source":"https://rac.cw/nl/publication/curacao-start-brede-consultatie-voor-nationale-ai-strategie/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Curaçao","org":"Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba","text":"Fairness, independence and openness underpin an emerging AI policy for judges at Curaçao's Joint Court of Justice. A panel assembled during the annual Knowledge Week produced this judicial AI governance framework, spanning bench and personnel alike. Directors took up the draft for scrutiny in May 2026.","date":"2026-05-26","source":"https://www.curacaochronicle.com/post/unknown/joint-court-develops-ai-policy-for-judges-and-staff"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Curaçao","role":"Policy adviser","org":"Sociaal Economische Raad (SER) Curaçao","text":"The Social and Economic Council (SER) of Curaçao keeps generative AI in advisory work under safeguards fixed at master classes on March 19, 20 and 24 at the council's Ansinghstraat offices. Condensing long files, sorting material, polishing wording, matching documents and simplifying dense subjects go to the software; legal interpretation, weighing competing interests, institutional sensitivity and formal judgment do not. Three rules govern AI-assisted advice: humans answer finally, personal data is protected, and quality, integrity and verifiability hold. Director Raúl Henriquez: nothing displaces professional judgment or human responsibility.","date":"2026-03","source":"https://ser.cw/en/2026/03/26/ser-curacao-embraces-ai-but-draws-a-firm-line-at-human-judgment/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Curaçao","role":"Radiation oncologist","org":"Curaçao Medical Center","text":"Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) leads the Caribbean in AI cancer radiotherapy via MIM Software's Elekta One platform. The gap between a patient's CT scan and treatment start now shrinks, with better shielding for healthy organs during dosing. CMC joins early adopters such as the Netherlands Cancer Institute in radiotherapy treatment planning.","date":"2025-11-24","source":"https://www.cmc.cw/news/cmc-first-hospital-in-the-region-with-ai-to-treat-cancer/?lang=en"}]}