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Improvements in the Efficiency of Public Spending Through the Appropriate Use of Digital Technologies in the Costa Rican Public Sector


Added by:   National contact point
Added on:   09 Jul 2025
Updated by:   OECD analyst
Updated on:   09 Jul 2025

The Central Administration is ordered and the Decentralized Administration is instructed to take the necessary technical and financial measures that allow them to plan, specify and implement technological solutions in accordance with the national reality.

Name in original language

Directriz N. 031 - MICITT - H Mejoras en la eficacia del gasto público mediante el uso adecuado de tecnologí­as digitales en el sector público costarricense

Initiative overview

The actions that enhance the use of digital technologies to improve the functioning of the Costa Rican Public Sector strategic public policy, which includes the vision, objectives, priority areas and transversal axes, which will allow the identification, definition and / or prioritization of the projects that will be registered in the National Digital Government Portfolio, based on the current National Development Plan. This policy will guide the construction of the institutional agendas of Digital Government.The initiative has the following objectives:For all cases, the use of technological solutions with which the institution already has to be maximized, or find suitable alternatives that are as cost-efficient as possible.

Name of responsible organisation (in English)

Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications

About the policy initiative


Organisation:

  • Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications

Category:

  • National – AI policy initiatives, regulations, guidelines, standards and programmes or projects

Initiative type:

  • Regulation (by government authority)

Participating organisations:


Participating countries:


Status:

  • Inactive – initiative complete

Start Year:

  • 2018

End Year:

  • 2020

Binding:

  • Binding

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