4 government bodies, 2 named officials, 3 programmes and 2 policies, from the ministries' own sites.
1 office on this page could not be matched to a current holder, and is shown as unverified rather than dropped. 1 source site did not fully answer our request; the status is shown on the body it belongs to. Last mined 2026-08-02.
BOMAtlas indexes 34 research institutions in El Salvador from the Research Organization Registry.
The ministries, regulators and funds that hold the mandate, with the office holder where we could verify one.
National education policy at all levels plus science and technology; renamed from Ministerio de Educación to add Ciencia y Tecnología under the Bukele administration, and the science-and-technology name is what Salvadoran press uses as of January 2026.
Karla Trigueros · Minister of Education, Science and Technology
Verified as of 2026-07-31
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Presidential secretariat that owns El Salvador's digital transformation via the Agenda Digital Nacional 2020-2030 (digital identity, innovation/education/competitiveness, state modernization, digital governance).
Daniel Ernesto Méndez Cabrera · Secretary of Innovation of the Presidency
Verified as of 2023-01-17
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Public teacher-training institute under the education ministry, created by Decree 913/2018; produced content for the Aprendamos en Casa broadcast program until stripped of it in 2022.
Holder not verified · Director, INFOD
Checked 2026-07-31; no current holder confirmed from an official source.
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National AI agency created as the governing body under the Ley de Fomento de la Inteligencia Artificial y las Tecnologias.
Named interventions currently running, announced, stalled or ended. A partner entering here joins one of these or explains why not.
Flagship education reform to rebuild and equip 5,150 public schools over five years with new infrastructure, furniture, accessibility materials and free internet connectivity, plus teacher training and curriculum overhaul.
Reach: 424 of 5,150 promised schools renovated as of January 2025 (El Faro: 8.23% progress); Infobae reports 210 schools remodeled for $184M under the follow-on 'Dos Escuelas por Día' push as of May 2026.
August 2023 agreement under which the state committed US$500M for Google services across government digitalization, health and education; Google opened San Salvador offices April 2024, and the education component centers on nationwide Google Classroom rollout.
Reach: Bukele's claim that 'there is not a single child' without Google Classroom access is the government's own unaudited assertion; no independent verification of coverage found. Separately, Google.org committed $4.6M for AI education across nine Latin American countries including El Salvador (regional target 1.25M students by 2028, not an SV-specific figure).
Partnership with Elon Musk's xAI, announced 2025-12-11, to deploy the Grok chatbot as a digital tutor aligned to the national curriculum across the public school system.
Reach: Announced targets: 5,000+ public schools, 1M+ students, thousands of teachers, over a two-year rollout. Zero verified deployment as of the announcement coverage.
The strategy documents in force. These are what an intervention has to be written into.
National digital strategy on four pillars (digital identity; innovation, education and competitiveness; state modernization; digital governance) including technology education and broadband access.
AI law approved by the Legislative Assembly 26 February 2025, with ANIA as governing body; sits alongside the Cybersecurity Law and the Personal Data Protection Law.