{"name":"Applied AI in El Salvador — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for El Salvador, 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/el-salvador","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":"El Salvador","slug":"el-salvador","iso2":"SV","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"nationalStrategy":{"name":"Ley de Fomento de la Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnologías","year":2025},"counts":{"entries":18,"deployments":9,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":6,"industries":5,"countries":1,"linked":18},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"El Salvador","org":"Qudox","text":"Qudox's State of Digital 2026 study puts AI adoption at 37% of Salvadorans surveyed, for personal or work tasks. Rebeca Salazar and Natalia Chacón previewed the AI use figure before the Hilton San Salvador launch on 22 October. The yearly internet and social media survey also tracks TikTok's rise and creators' sway.","date":"2026-10-14","source":"https://www.elsalvador.com/?p=1298497"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","role":"Environmental assessment officer","org":"Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN)","text":"El Salvador's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has formalised SIMACC, a climate monitoring platform in force since 7 September that pools geo-environmental records from public bodies and local governments. The ministerial agreement permits automated analysis, predictive modelling and AI on environmental data, with outputs serving only as technical input for officials' decisions.","date":"2026-09-27","source":"https://www.infobae.com/el-salvador/2026/09/27/el-salvador-lanza-una-plataforma-ambiental-con-ia-para-monitorear-el-cambio-climatico-y-priorizar-zonas-de-restauracion/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador","text":"The Legislative Assembly passed, by 57 votes, an El Salvador AI regulation giving the National Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Similar Technologies Projects led or coordinated by the National Artificial Intelligence Agency (ANIA) a separate purchasing regime. Declared of public utility, those projects can buy anything from works and licences to data, models, compute and infrastructure under AI procurement rules set apart from the Public Procurement Law.","date":"2026-09-24","source":"https://www.diariocolatino.com/asamblea-aprueba-paquete-de-reformas-que-amplia-plazo-de-entrega-del-aguinaldo/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador","text":"The Legislative Assembly has designated national AI, robotics and allied tech ventures as public-utility works, reshaping El Salvador AI regulation. The National AI Agency (ANIA) picks qualifying schemes and, in defined cases such as expertise unavailable locally or a sole supplier, may buy directly, skipping the public procurement law, with suitability, capability and cost on file. Economy Minister María Luisa Hayem tabled these AI procurement rules for the President.","date":"2026-09-23","source":"https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/nacional/proyectos-inteligencia-artificial-robotica/1295059/2026/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Education & Training","region":"El Salvador","org":"Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de El Salvador","text":"El Salvador's education minister, Karla Trigueros, says 171 pilot public schools outscored the national average in science, mathematics and reading, performing on a par with Germany and Sweden, crediting AI tutoring in schools, teacher training, learning monitoring and technology. OECD's PISA for Schools assessed 1,198 students in June 2026; the schools, selected for internet access and infrastructure instead of past results, do not represent the national system, whose PISA 2025 results differed. Extension to all public schools within 18 months is planned, though no independent evaluation has isolated the AI tutors' effect.","date":"2026-09-09","source":"https://www.infobae.com/el-salvador/2026/09/09/programa-piloto-con-ia-y-tecnologia-lleva-a-171-escuelas-salvadorenas-a-niveles-de-paises-desarrollados-en-pisa-dice-el-gobierno/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"El Salvador","role":"Teacher","org":"Government of El Salvador","text":"El Salvador's AI tutoring in schools has already spread past 1,000 campuses, President Nayib Bukele said, pledging coverage of every state school within 18 months. His statement accompanied published findings from a pilot across 171 public schools. Machine tutoring runs beside ordinary classroom teaching. The expansion figures are the government's own.","date":"2026-09-07","source":"https://forbescentroamerica.com/2026/09/07/nayib-bukele-destaca-evaluacion-de-plan-piloto-con-ia-en-escuelas-publicas"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA)","text":"El Salvador AI policy now points toward sovereign tech independence, with the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) projecting AI could drive nearly 20% of GDP by 2031. The Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial 2026 ties this national artificial intelligence strategy to Bitcoin innovation as a growth engine. ANIA calls the plan living, built to shift as the sector matures.","date":"2026-05-15","source":"https://ultimahora.sv/el-salvador-presenta-estrategia-nacional-de-inteligencia-artificial-2026/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","role":"Prosecutor","org":"Fiscalía General de la República de El Salvador","text":"El Salvador's Attorney General, Rodolfo Delgado, says his office is building a sovereign AI platform with WideLabs and NVIDIA Brasil for 24-hour AI criminal complaint intake. People will file by voice or text on WhatsApp or the web, and each complaint will be structured and sorted automatically, arriving analysis-ready with the prosecutor in charge.","date":"2026-04-20","source":"https://www.infobae.com/el-salvador/2026/04/22/fiscalia-salvadorena-anuncia-sistema-de-inteligencia-artificial-soberana-para-denuncias-judiciales/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"El Salvador","role":"Physician","org":"Government of El Salvador (DoctorSV)","text":"President Nayib Bukele has extended DoctorSV, El Salvador's digital health platform, to chronic patients with kidney disease, hypertension or diabetes, announcing its second stage in a national broadcast. Each patient gets round-the-clock AI health agents monitoring them, and doctors receive patients with history, questionnaires and diagnostic suggestions already processed by the platform's AI.","date":"2026-04","source":"https://lanoticiasv.com/bukele-lanza-etapa-2-de-doctor-sv-con-ia-para-atender-enfermedades-cronicas/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Sala de lo Constitucional, Corte Suprema de Justicia de El Salvador","text":"El Salvador's Constitutional Chamber has set ethical and legal criteria for generative AI in public institutions and AI in the courts, ruling in unconstitutionality case 57-2025, sparked by a claim citizens drafted with AI tools. Everyone has the right to a human judge and a human legal representative, and judicial AI use must face strict legal and ethical controls and compulsory human oversight, it held.","date":"2026-03","source":"https://lanoticiasv.com/sala-de-lo-constitucional-fija-estandares-eticos-y-legales-para-el-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","role":"Public defender","org":"Procuraduría General de la República (PGR)","text":"El Salvador's Procuraduría General de la República introduced an AI virtual agent for public defenders on 11 December 2025, for staff handling child and adolescent cases. Running on the agency's own secure infrastructure, it merges national rules and case criteria to verify requirements and draft legal inputs faster, using artificial intelligence for legal support as part of the Procuraduría's modernisation drive.","date":"2025-12-11","source":"https://www.pgr.gob.sv/2025/12/11/lanzamos-proyecto-de-agente-virtual-una-herramienta-basada-en-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","role":"Police officer","org":"Policía Nacional Civil (PNC)","text":"Over 6,000 smartphones now carry El Salvador's ONI system, a mobile AI platform issued to National Civil Police officers and trainees under Plan Control Territorial Phase III. Acting as a modern police AI surveillance tool, it swaps out legacy radios for LTE-connected handsets that read identity papers and vehicle plates, check offender databases and single out suspected gang members, claiming above 40% precision. This AI policing platform's accuracy figure comes from the force itself and remains unverified.","date":"2025-11-27","source":"https://publimetro.sv/noticias/2025/11/27/oni-la-revolucion-tecnologica-que-moderniza-a-la-pnc-en-el-salvador/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"El Salvador","role":"Agricultural technician","org":"Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG)","text":"El Salvador's Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) runs AI crop monitoring through MIRA (Monitoreo Inteligente de la Red Agropecuaria), pairing Google satellite imagery with Google Cloud Platform processing to track crop health, flag droughts and floods, and estimate losses. Multispectral drones and IA models generate early warnings, directing response teams to the worst-hit zones. This farm monitoring system converts raw imagery into alerts.","date":"2025-10-09","source":"https://www.elmetropolitanodigital.com/2025/10/mag-lanza-el-monitoreo-inteligente-de-la-red-agropecuaria-mira/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"El Salvador","role":"Radiologists, medical doctors","org":"Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador (Ministry of Health)","text":"El Salvador's public hospitals now perform AI X-ray analysis in hospitals on every radiograph and lab test, Minister Francisco Alabi says. This AI-assisted radiograph screening flags abnormalities faster, catching respiratory, cardiac and oncological problems sooner. Doctors still make the final call — the tool aids diagnosis, not replaces it.","date":"2025-10-06","source":"https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/nacional/inteligencia-artificial-hospitales-el-salvador/1245506/2025/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA)","text":"ANIA is El Salvador's single AI compliance contact under the Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Technologies, with a 12-month grace period sparing developers fines while joining the National Registry. This AI regulation binds automated tools deciding on health, finance, jobs, schooling, housing, transport or public services to warn those affected and allow challenges.","date":"2025-09-02","source":"https://diaadianews.com/el-salvador-pone-en-marcha-la-ley-de-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Escuela Superior de Innovación en la Administración Pública (ESIAP)","text":"21 employees drawn from nine Salvadoran public bodies now hold Google Cloud Platform credentials, a milestone for AI adoption in government. ESIAP rector and Vice-President Félix Ulloa presented the honours once trainees wrapped a Google Day course on cloud configuration. Backers described the initiative as advancing digital transformation of public services nationwide.","date":"2025-02-27","source":"https://diarioelsalvador.com/depais/entregan-certificacion-a-21-funcionarios-tras-curso-de-google-cloud/627596"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","org":"Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador","text":"El Salvador AI regulation now flows from one statute, the Law for the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence and Technologies. The National AI Agency (ANIA) leads enforcement, backed by the National Registry for AI Development, Innovation and Application. Registered firms gain legal shields under this AI policy framework.","date":"2025-02-26","source":"https://lanoticiasv.com/asamblea-legislativa-aprobo-la-ley-de-fomento-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-y-tecnologias/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"El Salvador","role":"Police officer","org":"Ministerio de Justicia y Seguridad","text":"An AI server for police and military is coming to El Salvador, the country's first, Minister Gustavo Villatoro said. The Ministry of Justice and Security plans to equip the National Civil Police and Armed Forces with local machines for running AI systems instead of cloud platforms, opening fresh options for analysing threats and directing responses. He called the AI infrastructure for security forces already 'on its way', though giving no delivery date or hardware details.","date":"2025-01-07","source":"https://lanoticiasv.com/el-salvador-tendra-su-primer-servidor-para-ia-no-queremos-nuestra-informacion-policial-en-la-nube/"}]}