The Canary Agency for Research, Innovation and the Information Society (ACIISI), through its Canary Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (OCTSI), has published the Informe eCanarias 2025, the nineteenth study that analyzes the state of the digital society in the Archipelago.
The document offers a complete x-ray of the process of digital transformation in the Canary Islands in key areas such as households, companies, the ICT and audiovisual sector, non-university education and the use of electronic administration, in comparison with Spain and the European Union.
Likewise, it includes the main actions promoted by the public administrations during 2025 to modernize the Canarian economy and society.
The ICT sector in the Canary Islands reached a total of 3,287 companies in 2025, which represents 4.4% of the national total, after a 7% growth year-on-year.
For its part, the audiovisual sector maintains a particularly positive evolution, with 660 companies —6% of the state total— and an 11% growth, superior to the national average, driven mainly by film and television activities.
SMEs lead the advance in e-commerce
In the realm of households, the 92% of the Canarian population accesses the internet daily, a figure aligned with the national average. The most frequent uses continue to be instant messaging, email and calls or video calls, followed by online banking, searching for health information and reading news.
However, the report highlights that the Canary Islands continues to be the autonomous community with the lowest use of e-commerce among citizens, both in the purchase of physical products and in the contracting of digital services. Regarding equipment, the pattern is similar to that of the country as a whole, with a lower presence of computers and greater use of landline telephony.
The Canarian companies with fewer than ten employees present levels of digitalization similar to the national average in terms of equipment and connectivity, and even superior in the use of tools such as social networks, cloud services, or artificial intelligence.
For the first time, these SMEs exceed the national average in availability of website (31% versus 30%) and also in e-commerce, both in sales (14% versus 9%) and in purchases (24% versus 22%).
In companies with ten or more workers, although the availability of ICT resources is comparable to the state average, a lower presence of ICT specialist personnel is observed (11% compared to 17% nationally) and a lower generalized use of digital technologies, except in the case of social media.
