Galician Municipalities Advance in Digital Administration and Emerging Technologies

23.6% of municipalities now use the Internet of Things, 13.6% artificial intelligence, and 11.5% cloud computing.

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Galician municipalities are consolidating digital administration services and advancing in the adoption of emerging technologies, according to data from the Observatory of the Information Society and Modernization of Galicia (OSIMGA).

Over 23% of Galician municipalities employ Internet of Things (IoT) technology, primarily applied to water management, sanitation, and public lighting. The OSIMGA report also indicates that 13.6% now use artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and 11.5% contract cloud computing services.
Regarding artificial intelligence, 90.6% of municipalities using it employ it for language analysis and 72.3% for content generation. Cloud computing is mainly used for email (81.9%), server hosting (74.3%), and file storage (73.7%).
Online management of council sessions is the application showing the most growth since 2023, reaching 43% of municipalities, a relative increase of 64.1%. Furthermore, 32.4% of municipalities now allow most available procedures to be completed entirely digitally.
All Galician municipalities have an electronic headquarters, and electronic invoicing is implemented in 92.4% of municipal entities, while the issuance of electronic documents reaches 90.7%. Case file management is present in 97.5% of municipalities.
Based on information from the official source: Xunta de Galicia — Notas de prensa (portal central, cubre todas as consellerías) (31/10/2026)