Puerto Rico’s Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) has launched PRITS Academy, an online learning platform to strengthen the technology skills of government employees and speed the island’s digital transformation. It offers specialized training in technology, cybersecurity and innovation so public employees can improve government operations and services. "PRITS Academy is the cross-cutting component of everything we do," said PRITS Executive Director and Chief Innovation and Information Officer Poincaré Díaz Peña, who said every application, policy or standard PRITS develops must come with education, communication and adoption.
As part of the launch, PRITS held a training session for hundreds of public employees and agency chief information officers. The platform, at www.pritsacademy.pr.gov, lets participants take self-paced online courses from any location; employees must register with their official Puerto Rico government email addresses. It launched with three programs: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, five courses on core cybersecurity concepts; Single Digital Record (ExDU), two courses on the government’s digital records initiative; and AWS – Train Puerto Rico, seven courses on artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
The platform meets Article 9 of Act 40-2024, Puerto Rico’s Cybersecurity Act, as amended by Act 140-2026, which requires PRITS to maintain a virtual education program on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence and annual continuing education for employees with the Office of Government Ethics. It supports Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s agenda for a more efficient, agile, citizen-centered government.