Panama's entries are its airport and its cabinet — an AI guide for passengers at Tocumen, and a National AI Strategy approved by the Consejo de Gabinete in 2026.
Announced 2026. Its pillars are innovation, ethical and inclusive use, institutional capacity.
Services 70% · Industry 24.9% · Agriculture 2.6% of gross value added — World Bank, 2025
The cabinet has approved Panama's National AI Strategy, coordinated by SENACYT.
Panama3 Sep 2026Panamá Conecta / Centro de Atención Ciudadana 311 — Panamá Conecta, the Panamanian government's single public-services portal, now has an AI government chatbot for fast reports to the 311 Citizen Attention Centre. The 311 platform also offers live chat with a contact-centre agent.
Panama12 Aug 2026Consejo de Gabinete / SENACYT — Panama's Cabinet Council has approved the National AI Strategy through Resolution 89-26, drafted under SENACYT, setting objectives, programmes and priorities for ethical, responsible, inclusive and secure AI and aiming to make the country a trusted AI innovation hub in Latin America. The resolution works as a policy roadmap: it adds no testing, certification or product-authorisation requirements, and ASEP equipment homologation stays as it is.
Panama18 Jun 2026Government of Panama (Executive Decree No. 11 of 2026) — Panama's Executive Decree No. 11 of 17 June 2026 regulates the national Amber Alert system, implementing Law 469 of 2025 with responsibilities, procedures, response times and agency coordination. It promotes AI in missing-child searches with mobile apps, CCTV, video analysis and geolocation, and creates an Early Activation Office for reports, case assessment and alerts.
The judicial training institute trains court staff with ISJUP IA, an AI study assistant.
Panama20 Mar 2026Instituto Superior de la Judicatura de Panamá (ISJUP), Órgano Judicial — Panama's judicial training institute, the Instituto Superior de la Judicatura (ISJUP), launched ISJUP IA, an AI study assistant for judicial staff and legal professionals' ongoing training. Curriculum designers, teachers and students can use the virtual assistant to consult course content, settle legal questions and find study materials.
The health ministry is piloting VANESSA, an AI WhatsApp bot for dengue reports.
Panama8 Jan 2026Ministerio de Salud de Panamá (Minsa) — Panama's Ministry of Health is piloting VANESSA, an AI dengue surveillance platform, for six months in San Miguelito. Phase one is a WhatsApp bot where residents report suspected dengue cases and mosquito breeding sites with location, photos and text, backed by regional health-promotion, epidemiology, environmental-sanitation and vector-control teams.
Tocumen International Airport has launched an AI guide for passengers.
Panama21 Aug 2026Tocumen International Airport — Tocumen International Airport's rebuilt digital platform features Tocumín, an AI airport assistant that tells a traveller at gate 115 how long the walk to gate 205 takes and the route, alongside retail, parking, connection and flight details. Tocumen S.A.'s in-house team built the wayfinding assistant in about 18 months; biometric access to travel information is due in 2027. The airport handled 13.7 million passengers from January to July 2026, 15 per cent up on a year earlier.
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