{"name":"Applied AI in Honduras — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Honduras, 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/honduras","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":"Honduras","slug":"honduras","iso2":"HN","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":12,"deployments":8,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":0,"industries":5,"countries":1,"linked":12},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Honduras","org":"Microsoft AI Economy Institute (Global AI Diffusion Report Q2 2026)","text":"AI adoption in Honduras reached 14.5% of 15-to-64-year-olds by June 2026, 0.5 points above 14.0% in Q1, against 18.8% worldwide. Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion study derives that generative AI use estimate from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for operating-system and device mix, connectivity and headcount.","date":"2026-09-21","source":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Microsoft-AI-Diffusion-Report-2026-Q2.pdf"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Honduras","role":"Municipal services officer","org":"Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central","text":"Tegucigalpa's city hall has launched MDC en tus Manos, a WhatsApp assistant it bills as Honduras's first municipal AI agent. Residents photograph and locate damaged signage, blocked drains, water leaks or potholes; the agent classifies and routes each report to the right department in under a minute and answers refuse-collection and water-distribution schedule queries. Built by the Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central's new AMDC+IA unit with the Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras' AI laboratories, it aims to reinvent bureaucracy, Mayor Juan Diego Zelaya says.","date":"2026-08-18","source":"https://www.hondudiario.com/2026/08/18/alcaldia-crea-amdcia-y-lanza-mdc-en-tus-manos-el-primer-agente-municipal-de-inteligencia-artificial-de-honduras/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Honduras","role":"Emergency responder","org":"Government of Honduras (Sistema Nacional de Emergencias 911)","text":"AI facial recognition emergency system upgrades are coming to Honduras's Sistema Nacional de Emergencias 911 under President Nasry Asfura, adding licence plate identification and vehicle data to sharpen nationwide response speed. Marking the service's tenth year, officials pointed to over 6,900 recovered cameras and faster reaction times, folding AI-driven public-safety surveillance into a decade-old network.","date":"2026-08-01","source":"https://www.hondudiario.com/2026/08/01/presidente-asfura-anuncia-mas-tecnologia-y-capacidad-de-respuesta-para-una-nueva-etapa-del-911/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Honduras","org":"Hospital Escuela de Tegucigalpa","text":"Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa reported 98% sensitivity for an AI sepsis detection system tested in 2026 on 100 emergency patients. The tool paired natural language processing with a wearable biosensor bracelet, reaching an F1-score of 0.848 and kappa=0.847 against clinical diagnosis. Researchers said AI-based early sepsis screening should support triage decisions, not replace clinical judgement.","date":"2026-07-15","source":"https://www.uhsalud.com/index.php/revhispano/article/view/1184"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Honduras","org":"Government of Honduras","text":"Amazon Web Services and the Government of Honduras have launched AWS Entrena Honduras, an AI training programme giving 15,000 Hondurans no-cost artificial intelligence and cloud computing lessons. Sponsors also include the Central District Mayor's Office, the US Embassy and Grupo Financiero Atlántida, with distinct routes suited to ordinary learners, students and entrepreneurs from age 18. Finishers walk away holding a digital credential issued by AWS.","date":"2026-07-14","source":"https://hndhoy.com/honduras-formara-a-miles-en-inteligencia-artificial-el-reto-sera-convertir-certificados-en-empleos/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Honduras","role":"Journalists and fact-checkers","org":"Grupo OPSA","text":"An AI chatbot for election disinformation, Chekeabot, went live from Grupo OPSA's EH Verifica and LA PRENSA Verifica, resolving voter queries on ballot procedures during Honduras's 2025 elections. Staff wrote and vetted every answer rather than letting the system run unchecked. This reflects the group's push toward AI-assisted fact-checking alongside standard newsroom practice.","date":"2025-12-31","source":"https://www.elheraldo.hn/elheraldoplus/factchecking/analisis/chekeabot-aprendimos-crear-chatbot-desinformacion-el-heraldo-honduras-HK28779680"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Honduras","role":"Cash logistics operators","org":"Prosegur Cash","text":"AI cash logistics cut ATM paperwork 70% for Prosegur Cash in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, via optical character recognition, Big Data and AI models, erasing transcription errors. Francisco Galeano, Honduras and Nicaragua, reported operational metrics up 17%, security metrics up 11%.","date":"2025-12-19","source":"https://contextohn.com/tecnologia-y-ciencia/prosegur-cash-optimiza-y-fortalece-su-operacion-en-honduras-con-inteligencia-artificial-y-big-data/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Honduras","org":"ILIA (Latin American AI Index) / CEPAL","text":"AI adoption in Honduras scored 27.39 of 100 on the 2025 Latin American AI Index (ILIA) — 17th of 19 nations, third-last, ahead only of Bolivia and Venezuela. CEPAL and Chile's CENIA built the ranking and called Honduras a 'moderate adopter' despite wide gaps in connectivity, data centres and policymaking. Its score for governance of artificial intelligence, the vision and institutional capacity category, was zero.","date":"2025-10-31","source":"https://dinero.hn/honduras-con-poco-avance-en-adopcion-de-inteligencia-artificial-ilia-2025/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Honduras","role":"Journalists and editors","org":"Grupo OPSA","text":"MarIA (Módulo Autónomo de Revisión con Inteligencia Artificial) handles daily editing, proofreading and SEO at Grupo OPSA's EL HERALDO and La Prensa, a case of AI in journalism in Honduras. Honduran staff built it via WAN-IFRA's LATAM Newsroom AI Catalyst scheme, using each outlet's style rules. WAN-IFRA later ranked the group among Latin America's four most inventive media firms for this newsroom AI push.","date":"2025-07-21","source":"https://www.elheraldo.hn/elheraldoplus/factchecking/analisis/grupo-opsa-cuatro-medios-innovadores-latinoamerica-herramienta-maria-ND26704328"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Honduras","role":"Supply chain planners","org":"Suministros & Alimentos","text":"Suministros & Alimentos now relies on ToolsGroup's platform for AI demand forecasting in food logistics, doing live shipment tracking and stock tuning across Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Franchise clients such as McDonald's benefit from the setup, unveiled at Gartner's Supply Chain Symposium as a case study.","date":"2025-05-08","source":"https://imagenacion.com/suministros-alimentos-mejora-su-logistica-en-centroamerica-con-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Honduras","role":"Radiologist","org":"Hospital Materno Infantil","text":"Hospital Materno Infantil in Tegucigalpa bought an AI-powered CT scanner for 17 million lempiras, among the most advanced AI imaging machines in Honduras's public health system. The Aquillon Serve unit's built-in AI flags lung nodules, runs brain spectral scans, and digitally subtracts images for cerebral circulation studies. It also helps identify cancerous tumours and measure their size.","date":"2025-02-26","source":"https://www.laprensa.hn/honduras/honduras-salud-compran-tomografo-funciona-inteligencia-artificial-CF24564512"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Honduras","role":"Citizen support officer","org":"Secretaría de Seguridad de Honduras (Security Ministry)","text":"Honduras' Security Ministry unveiled MARIA (Módulo de Asistencia y Respuesta de Información Automatizada), an AI chatbot for gender-based violence support that also serves as a confidential virtual assistant for victims, free for women and girls, 24 hours a day, via WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, no app needed. It privately answers questions on domestic violence, harassment and trafficking and walks victims through filing a complaint. UNDP and USAID helped build it.","date":"2025-01-25","source":"https://www.laprensa.hn/teinteresa/maria-combate-violencia-contra-mujer-hondurena-FD23752755"}]}