Ministerio de Educación del Perú - Dirección General de Tecnologías Educativas (DIGETE)

What Ministerio de Educación del Perú - Dirección General de Tecnologías Educativas (DIGETE) does

Ministerio de Educación del Perú - Dirección General de Tecnologías Educativas (DIGETE) is the Peruvian Ministry of Education directorate responsible for designing, deploying, and operating the national educational technology infrastructure. It serves Peru's public school system, reaching students, teachers, educational institutions, and families across all 25 regions of the country.

DIGETE's core product portfolio centers on the PerúEduca digital platform and a suite of integrated information systems, including SIAGIE for academic grade management, SIFODS for student follow-up and dropout prevention, SICRECE for educational community networks, and Identicole for student identification. The directorate also operates MineduLAB, an innovation lab for educational technology development, and produces digital educational content distributed nationally. These systems are deployed through mandated adoption by public schools and are anchored to compliance, funding, and pedagogical reporting workflows.

DIGETE's business model is non-commercial: it is funded through the Peruvian Ministry of Education's national budget allocations rather than user fees or commercial contracts. Its go-to-market mechanism is statutory rather than commercial — adoption is mandatory for public educational institutions, and citizen access to services such as PerúEduca is provided free of charge. The directorate's customer base is effectively the entire population of Peru served by the public education system, with end-user concentration risk offset by the structural dependence on a single government funder. Recent activity includes inter-agency partnerships with SUNARP and COMIUNESCO, the launch of the 'Maestros de Corazón 2026' campaign, and a leadership transition with Gladys Gago Jiménez appointed as Director General.

Name

Ministerio de Educación del Perú - Dirección General de Tecnologías Educativas (DIGETE)

Legal name

Ministerio de Educación del Perú

Website

https://minedu.gob.pe

Company type

Public

Founded year

1850

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DIGETE is the Peruvian Ministry of Education's directorate for educational technology, operating the national PerúEduca platform and integrated information systems (SIAGIE, SIFODS, SICRECE, Identicole) to serve public school students, teachers, and families across all 25 regions of Peru.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Education Services

NAICS

Administration of Education Programs (923110), Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Learning, EdTech Enablement & Connectivity for Education (BPADAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Literacy, ICT & Computer Science Standards Authorities (EDADAEAK), Education Systems & Skills Technical Assistance (BPADAEAI)

Keywords

• Public education services
• Educational technology platforms
• School management systems
• Teacher professional development
• Digital learning materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Lima, Lima

HQ country

Peru

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Budget Allocation: Funded through annual government budget allocations from the Peruvian national treasury. No commercial revenue generation as this is a government ministry providing public education services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Ministerio de Educación del Perú, through DIGETE, provides free public education policy, administration, and digital educational services to Peru's population. Its core deliverable is the operation of national digital platforms (notably the PerúEduca educational technology platform with its Materiales Educativos Digitales) and information systems (SIAGIE, SIFODS, SICRECE, Identicole, Escale) that support teaching, learning, school management, teacher training, evaluation, and certification across Peru's 25 regions.

Product overview

Ministerio de Educación del Perú (MINEDU) operates primarily as a government ministry overseeing Peru's education system rather than as a technology product company. The ministry provides a collection of educational platforms and information systems including PerúEduca (educational technology platform), SIAGIE (school management information), and various administrative and pedagogical digital services. These operate as separate government platforms rather than an integrated product suite.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PerúEduca: Educational Technology Platform of Peru
• MineduLAB
• Te La Cuento
• PerúEduca

Products and services

• PerúEduca - Plataforma Tecnológica Educativa Government educational technology platform providing digital educational materials (Materiales Educativos Digitales - MED) for students and teachers across Peru's public school system.
• SIAGIE - Sistema de Información de Apoyo a la Gestión de la Institución Educativa Information system supporting the management of public educational institutions, including student enrollment, grades, and institutional data tracking.
• SIFODS - Sistema Integrado de Formación Docente en Servicio Integrated system for in-service teacher professional development and continuing training programs across Peru's public education system.
• SICRECE - Sistema de Consulta de Resultados de Evaluaciones Online system for consulting and accessing teacher competency evaluation and assessment results.
• Evaluación Docente Online platform for teacher competency evaluation and certification processes within Peru's public education system.
• Identicole System for student identification, registration, and enrollment records in public educational institutions.
• Certificado de Estudios Digital Online government service for obtaining official study certificates, both first issuance and duplicates, since 1985.
• Escale Educational census and statistical information system for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on Peru's education data.
• COAR - Colegios de Alto Rendimiento High-performance schools program offering specialized education for academically talented students across Peru.
• Te La Cuento Weekly micro-program broadcast via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Spotify explaining MINEDU services and programs to citizens in accessible language.
• Repositorio Institucional del Minedu Institutional repository providing access to MINEDU documents, publications, and legal norms.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and regional.

• SUNARP (Superintendencia Nacional de los Registros Públicos)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration to resolve property title issues for educational institutions. Partnership aims to address land ownership documentation problems affecting schools.
• SUNEDU (Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOversight and regulation of universities and higher education institutions in Peru. SUNEDU operates under MINEDU's sector.
• PRONABEC (Programa Nacional de Becas y Crédito Educativo)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational scholarship program providing educational scholarships and loans. Part of the ministry's educational opportunity programs.
• COAR (Colegios de Alto Rendimiento)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHigh-performance schools for talented students. MINEDU program offering specialized education for top academic performers.
• Educatec (Organismo de Gestión de Institutos y Escuelas de Educación Superior Tecnológica Públicos)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGoverning body for public technical and higher education institutions. Manages the network of technological institutes.
• UNESCO through COMIUNESCOregionalStrategic or Co-development PartnerPeru's National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO. International partnership for educational standards and policies.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• UNESCO: Although not a direct competitor, UNESCO is an explicit partner of MINEDU via COMIUNESCO and serves as the global standards-setter for education policy, digital learning frameworks, and literacy benchmarks (e.g., the Lima Declaration); relevant as the institutional context against which MINEDU's policy is calibrated.
• Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI): Ibero-American intergovernmental organization focused on education, science, and culture policy; relevant because it co-publishes the PISA-aligned Ibero-American indicators and convenes ministries of education across the region, functioning as both a peer forum and a channel for technical-assistance programs that MINEDU participates in.

Regional players

• Ministerio de Educación Nacional - Colombia: Colombia's national education ministry, a structural peer because it oversees K-12, higher education, and teacher development with similar information-system assets (Simat, SAC) and scholarship programs analogous to PRONABEC; both ministries engage UNESCO and PISA as benchmarking frameworks.
• Ministerio de Educación - Ecuador: Ecuador's education ministry is a near-direct functional peer: it operates a national digital platform (Educar Ecuador) for K-12 content delivery, regulates higher education, and runs a teacher evaluation system, all functions also delivered by MINEDU/DIGETE.
• Ministério da Educação - Brasil: Brazil's federal education ministry operates at greater scale but with a directly comparable mandate across basic, technical, and higher education; its digital platforms (MEC ID, Avaliação Nacional) parallel SIAGIE and Identicole, and its scholarship programs (FIES, Prouni) are analogous to PRONABEC.
• Ministerio de Educación - Chile: Chile's education ministry is the most advanced Latin American comparator on learning assessment and digital infrastructure; comparable in mandate, and useful as a benchmark for where Peru's PerúEduca/SIAGIE stack could mature, especially around teacher evaluation systems akin to MINEDU's Evaluación Docente.
• Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) - México: Mexico's federal education ministry, the closest functional analog to MINEDU at a larger scale; both serve as the national authority on K-12 and higher education policy in Latin America and operate comparable digital learning platforms (Aprende en Casa vs. PerúEduca) and school-management information systems.
• Ministerio de Educación - Argentina: Argentina's federal education ministry shares MINEDU's structure of national policy combined with provincial implementation; comparable in providing national digital content portals, teacher training programs, and higher-education oversight.

Broad incumbents

• Coursera: A large online learning platform serving both consumers and institutions with higher-education and professional credentials; relevant as a benchmark for the post-secondary and workforce-skills layer that MINEDU touches via SUNEDU and PRONABEC scholarships.

Emerging players

• Khan Academy: A free, global digital learning platform covering K-12 and early college; competes with PerúEduca for student and teacher attention outside formal classrooms, and represents the kind of non-government EdTech player that could pressure MINEDU's content-library advantage if Spanish-language content quality continues to improve.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/MINEDU
• YouTubeyoutube.com/watch?v=wRHh8Cc0Yk8&list=PLr4ZtQodnnY5XB8KyPyTiuJMjV40Ghoef
• Facebookfacebook.com/mineduperu
• Instagraminstagram.com/minedupe
• TikToktiktok.com/@minedupe
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ministerio-de-educaci%C3%B3n-del-per%C3%BA

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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