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Digital Divide Country Profile · South America

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Paraguay

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

Location in the world

Paraguay

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South America

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Population (2024)
6,929,153
Total area
406,752 km²
Area in square miles
157,047.76 mi²
Coastline
Landlocked · 0 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 Paraguay 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 Data Center / Cloud Infrastructure, Public Wi-Fi / Community Network Infrastructure, Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure, Wi-Fi, Data Center/Centre. 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. Data Center / Cloud Infrastructure3
  2. Public Wi-Fi / Community Network Infrastructure3
  3. Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure2
  4. Satellite Infrastructure2
  5. Telecommunications / Broadband Infrastructure2

Specific technologies

  1. Wi-Fi3
  2. Data Center/Centre2
  3. Satellite Broadband2
  4. Starlink2
  5. Cloud Computing1

Intervention classification

  1. Infrastructure and Specific Technology8
  2. Infrastructure only3
  3. Neither explicitly identified3
  4. Rural satellite-connectivity deployment1
  5. Specific Technology only1

Education and workforce

Connectivity becomes consequential through participation.

5 initiatives explicitly connect to education, K–12, or college/university contexts, and 4 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

16 documented records

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

01

National digital connectivity infrastructure

Agenda Digital Shared Connectivity Infrastructure Programme

Ongoing · Nationwide public-sector infrastructure
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Status / periodOngoingLocationNationwide public-sector infrastructurePopulationCitizens and public institutionsOrganizationsMITIC; Programa de Apoyo a la Agenda Digital

Builds shared connectivity and digital infrastructure intended to reduce the digital divide and enable reliable public digital services.

Activities and approach: Connectivity networks; data centre/cloud; shared infrastructure

Data Center / Cloud InfrastructureTelecommunications / Broadband InfrastructureData Center/Centre
02

Paperless digital government

Digitalia electronic records / zero-paper government

Implementation / 2025-2026 · Government entities
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Status / periodImplementation / 2025-2026LocationGovernment entitiesPopulationCivil servants, citizens and businessesOrganizationsMITIC; public entities

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

Activities and approach: Electronic case files and traceability

03

School broadband

Educational Institutions Telecommunications Network

Implementation · Educational institutions, including vulnerable areas
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Status / periodImplementationLocationEducational institutions, including vulnerable areasPopulationStudents, teachers and school administratorsOrganizationsMITIC; Ministry of Education and Sciences; FEEI

Builds telecommunications and last-mile connectivity for schools, including institutions in vulnerable areas.

Activities and approach: Last-mile network; Internet service; school technology infrastructure

Last-Mile / Access InfrastructureInstitutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure
EducationK–12
04

Digital identity

Electronic Identity – 1.5 million users

Operational / June 2026 · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperational / June 2026LocationNationwidePopulationAdult citizens using online public servicesOrganizationsMITIC

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

Activities and approach: Trusted electronic identity

Digital Identity / e-ID
05

Digital health public services

Health Information System – 1,302 facilities operational

Operational / 2026 · Nationwide health network
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Status / periodOperational / 2026LocationNationwide health networkPopulationPatients and health workersOrganizationsMinistry of Health; MITIC

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

Activities and approach: National HIS operation and clinical data management

Workforce
06

Digital health infrastructure

Health Information System – initial 110 connected facilities

Implemented / first phase · Health facilities
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Status / periodImplemented / first phaseLocationHealth facilitiesPopulationPatients and health workersOrganizationsMinistry of Health; MITIC

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

Activities and approach: Connectivity and digital infrastructure for HIS

Telecommunications / Broadband Infrastructure
Workforce
07

Public Wi-Fi

IGEP nationwide 404 free Wi-Fi points

Operational / 2026 · All municipalities
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Status / periodOperational / 2026LocationAll municipalitiesPopulationCitizens using public spacesOrganizationsMITIC

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

Activities and approach: 404 free Wi-Fi points

Public Wi-Fi / Community Network InfrastructureWi-Fi
08

Free public Internet access

Internet Gratuito en Espacios Públicos (IGEP / WiFi Gratis)

2019–ongoing · All municipalities / public spaces
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Status / period2019–ongoingLocationAll municipalities / public spacesPopulationGeneral public, especially people without affordable private accessOrganizationsMITIC; Programa de Apoyo a la Agenda Digital

Provides free Internet in public places nationwide and is explicitly framed as reducing the digital divide.

Activities and approach: Public Wi-Fi hotspots

Public Wi-Fi / Community Network InfrastructureWi-Fi
09

School connectivity

National strategy to connect 4,000 educational institutions

Implementation / 2026 · Nationwide schools
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Status / periodImplementation / 2026LocationNationwide schoolsPopulationStudents and teachersOrganizationsMITIC; Ministry of Education; COPACO

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

Activities and approach: Satellite and other connectivity for 4,000 institutions

Institutional / School Connectivity InfrastructureInfrastructure Planning / Mapping / Funding
EducationK–12
10

Government cloud infrastructure

NubePy government cloud

Operational / expanding · Whole of government
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Status / periodOperational / expandingLocationWhole of governmentPopulationPublic agencies and digital-service usersOrganizationsMITIC

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

Activities and approach: Sovereign government cloud hosting

Data Center / Cloud InfrastructureCloud Computing
11

Rural satellite-connectivity deployment

Paraguay 1,600-Kit Starlink Rural Connectivity Expansion

1,600 kits formally incorporated June 2026 · Rural areas nationwide
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Status / period1,600 kits formally incorporated June 2026LocationRural areas nationwidePopulationRural communities affected by connectivity gapsOrganizationsGovernment of Paraguay; Starlink expansion partnersFunding1,600 satellite connectivity kits

deploying satellite kits to extend internet service in rural areas

Activities and approach: Formal incorporation and deployment support for Starlink connectivity kits

Rural satellite broadband deploymentStarlink satellite connectivity kits
BNamericas. (2026). In Paraguay, inmates will support Starlink’s expansion. https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/in-paraguay-inmates-will-support-starlinks-expansionOpen supporting source ↗
12

Digital public services

Portal Paraguay – 480+ fully online procedures

Operational / 2026 · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperational / 2026LocationNationwidePopulationCitizens and businessesOrganizationsMITIC

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

Activities and approach: 100% online procedures authenticated with Electronic Identity

13

Targeted indigenous digital inclusion

Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community Free Wi-Fi Deployment

Operational / 2025 documented · Sawhoyamaxa, Enxet community
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Status / periodOperational / 2025 documentedLocationSawhoyamaxa, Enxet communityPopulationIndigenous residents and youthOrganizationsMITIC

Extends free Internet into an indigenous community, supporting education, employment and digital-skills access.

Activities and approach: Community Wi-Fi; public Internet

Public Wi-Fi / Community Network InfrastructureWi-Fi
EducationWorkforce
14

Satellite broadband

Starlink 1,600-kit national rural connectivity expansion

Implementation / 2026 · Rural schools, health centres and remote communities
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Status / periodImplementation / 2026LocationRural schools, health centres and remote communitiesPopulationStudents, health workers and remote residentsOrganizationsMITIC; COPACO; Starlink; ministries

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

Activities and approach: Deployment of 1,600 Starlink kits

Satellite InfrastructureStarlinkSatellite Broadband
EducationK–12Workforce
15

Remote-area satellite broadband

Starlink Connectivity for 1,600 Schools, Health Centres and Remote Communities

2026 rollout · Remote and isolated areas nationwide
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Status / period2026 rolloutLocationRemote and isolated areas nationwidePopulation50,000+ students plus health centres and isolated communitiesOrganizationsMITIC; COPACO; Starlink

Uses satellite broadband to connect locations historically unable to obtain reliable terrestrial broadband.

Activities and approach: 1,600 Starlink kits; satellite Internet

Satellite InfrastructureStarlinkSatellite Broadband
EducationK–12
16

Government data infrastructure

State Data Center construction under Agenda Digital

Implementation / 2026 · National government
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Status / periodImplementation / 2026LocationNational governmentPopulationPublic agencies and service usersOrganizationsMITIC; IDB

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

Activities and approach: New state data centre

Data Center / Cloud InfrastructureData Center/Centre

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.). Paraguay. The World Factbook. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/paraguay/
  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): Paraguay. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=PY
  4. World Bank. (n.d.). Population, total: Paraguay. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=PY

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