Digital Divide Country Profile · North America

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Honduras

Closing the digital divide, expanding meaningful connectivity, and advancing digital education and workforce participation.

Location in the world

Honduras

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North America

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Population (2024)
10,825,703
Total area
112,090 km²
Area in square miles
43,278.17 mi²
Coastline
820 km
Base map adapted from Wikimedia Commons. Population: World Bank (2024); geography: CIA World Factbook.

National digital inclusion context

A portfolio-based view of access, capability, and outcomes.

This profile organizes the initiatives directly connected to Honduras in the global research inventory. It follows the study's country-profile framework: national context, broadband infrastructure, inclusion practices, education and workforce connections, implementation actors, and intended contribution.

The documented portfolio emphasizes Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure, Infrastructure Planning / Mapping / Funding, Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure, Wi-Fi. The profile treats infrastructure, affordability, capability, institutions, support, and outcomes as an interconnected system.

Portfolio pattern

What the documented response contains.

Counts reflect source-workbook tags. One initiative may appear in multiple infrastructure or technology categories.

Infrastructure and access

  1. Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure3
  2. Infrastructure Planning / Mapping / Funding1
  3. Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure1
  4. Public Wi-Fi / Community Network Infrastructure1
  5. Telecommunications / Broadband Infrastructure1

Specific technologies

  1. Wi-Fi2

Intervention classification

  1. Neither explicitly identified8
  2. Infrastructure only5
  3. Infrastructure and Specific Technology2

Education and workforce

Connectivity becomes consequential through participation.

3 initiatives explicitly connect to education, K–12, or college/university contexts, and 0 connect to workforce development. Other investments may enable these outcomes indirectly.

Access

Networks, service availability, devices, and connection quality.

Capability

Skills, confidence, accessibility, navigation, and support.

Participation

Education, work, health, government, and civic opportunity.

Sustainability

Governance, operations, maintenance, funding, and learning.

Project and initiative portfolio

15 documented records

Every directly tagged record is shown with details and supporting URLs preserved from the research workbook.

01

Digital government capacity

HO-T1470 – AGEHRED digital-government implementation capacity

Implementation / 2025-2026 · Central government
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Status / periodImplementation / 2025-2026LocationCentral governmentPopulationCitizens and agenciesOrganizationsAGEHRED; Government; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Institutional strengthening and implementation capacity

02

Government digital systems

HO-T1470 – planning/M&E digital systems integration

Implementation / 2025-2026 · Central government
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Status / periodImplementation / 2025-2026LocationCentral governmentPopulationPlanning and budget institutionsOrganizationsGovernment; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Planning; M&E; budget/public investment integration

03

Public-institution connectivity

IDB Digital Transformation – 700+ connected education and health sites

Implementation · Nationwide targeted areas
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Status / periodImplementationLocationNationwide targeted areasPopulationStudents, patients and staffOrganizationsGovernment; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Broadband connections to 700+ sites

Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure
04

Broadband monitoring

IDB Digital Transformation – broadband network operations center

Implementation · National network
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Status / periodImplementationLocationNational networkPopulationOperators and usersOrganizationsGovernment; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Network operations center equipment

05

Broadband investment enabling

IDB Digital Transformation – PPP/co-financing infrastructure model

Implementation · Underserved areas
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Status / periodImplementationLocationUnderserved areasPopulationCommunities outside commercial rolloutOrganizationsGovernment; operators; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Public-private co-financing

06

Telecom enabling environment

IDB Digital Transformation – regulatory framework update

Implementation · Nationwide
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Status / periodImplementationLocationNationwidePopulationConsumers and operatorsOrganizationsGovernment; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Connectivity regulation modernization

07

Community Internet access

Internet para Todos – Community Centre Access Sites

Programme component · Community centres
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Status / periodProgramme componentLocationCommunity centresPopulationResidents without home broadbandOrganizationsCONATEL; ISPs

Creates shared Internet access at community centres under the social broadband programme.

Activities and approach: Fixed/wireless Internet access

08

Community digital access

Internet para Todos – community-centre expansion

Ongoing · Community centres
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Status / periodOngoingLocationCommunity centresPopulationResidents lacking home accessOrganizationsCONATEL; local authorities

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Shared public internet

09

Social broadband access

Internet para Todos – Conexión al Mundo

Ongoing / regulated programme · Authorized public-interest sites
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Status / periodOngoing / regulated programmeLocationAuthorized public-interest sitesPopulationCommunities lacking affordable InternetOrganizationsCONATEL; Internet service providers

Requires participating ISPs to connect approved sites under a social-cooperation programme designed for public broadband access.

Activities and approach: Fixed/wireless broadband; ISP contributions

Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure
10

School connectivity

Internet para Todos – education-site expansion

Ongoing · Public educational sites
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Status / periodOngoingLocationPublic educational sitesPopulationStudents and teachersOrganizationsCONATEL; Government

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Internet access at education facilities

Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure
11

School broadband

Internet para Todos – Educational Institution Access Sites

Programme component · Schools and educational centres
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Status / periodProgramme componentLocationSchools and educational centresPopulationStudents, teachers and surrounding communitiesOrganizationsCONATEL; ISPs

Connects schools as approved Internet-access sites, reducing educational access gaps.

Activities and approach: Broadband connections; institutional Wi-Fi

Institutional / School Connectivity InfrastructureWi-Fi
12

Free/shared public Internet

Internet para Todos – Public Plaza Access Sites

Programme component · Public plazas
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Status / periodProgramme componentLocationPublic plazasPopulationGeneral publicOrganizationsCONATEL; ISPs

Extends Internet to public plazas and similar shared spaces, helping people lacking private subscriptions.

Activities and approach: Public wireless/fixed access

Telecommunications / Broadband Infrastructure
13

Public Wi-Fi

Internet para Todos – public-plaza Wi-Fi expansion

Ongoing · Public plazas
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Status / periodOngoingLocationPublic plazasPopulationResidents and visitorsOrganizationsCONATEL; municipalities

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Free Wi-Fi access

Public Wi-Fi / Community Network InfrastructureWi-Fi
14

Public broadband access

National Broadband Plan – Free Public Access Point Rollout

National broadband policy/implementation · Nationwide
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Status / periodNational broadband policy/implementationLocationNationwidePopulationResidents without private broadbandOrganizationsGovernment of Honduras; CONATEL

National broadband policy includes rollout of free public access points as a universal-access initiative.

Activities and approach: Public Internet access points

Infrastructure Planning / Mapping / Funding
15

Digital public services

National digital-government agenda – priority services implementation

Implementation / 2026 · Nationwide
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Status / periodImplementation / 2026LocationNationwidePopulationCitizens and businessesOrganizationsAGEHRED; ministries; IDB

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Priority transaction digitization

Evidence boundary

Read the portfolio as a starting point, not a final verdict.

Project records document interventions and intended contributions; they do not alone prove nationwide coverage, causal impact, or durable closure.

Profiles will deepen as national statistics, policy documents, evaluations, and implementation evidence are incorporated. Source links allow inspection of underlying evidence.

Evidence and contextProfile Sources

These sources support the country-level demographic, geographic, and connectivity context. Sources tied to individual projects remain with their project records and are not repeated here.

  1. Central Intelligence Agency. (n.d.). Honduras. The World Factbook. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/honduras/
  2. International Telecommunication Union. (n.d.). ITU DataHub: Country ICT data. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://datahub.itu.int/
  3. World Bank. (n.d.). Individuals using the Internet (% of population): Honduras. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=HN
  4. World Bank. (n.d.). Population, total: Honduras. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=HN

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