Authors - Katherine Garcia-Velez, Daniel Maldonado Abstract - This paper examines the trajectory of digital transformation in Ecuador's public sector between 2021 and 2025. Its objective is to analyze how the country moved from an initial strategic orientation to a legal and public policy consolidation of digital transformation. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative approach based on documentary analysis and diachronic comparison of official instruments: the Digital Agenda 2021-2022, the Digital Transformation Agenda 2022-2025, the Organic Law for Digital and Audiovisual Trans-formation (2023), and the Digital Transformation Public Policy 2025-2030. The analysis is grounded in the idea of the progressive institutionalization of digital reform and compares the evolution of these instruments in terms of their nature, scope, and institutional implications. The findings show a four-phase sequence: agenda setting, strategic coordination, legal consolidation, and programmatic consolidation. The study concludes that Ecuador progressed from strategically oriented instruments toward a binding legal framework and a national public pol-icy. However, the existence of this institutional architecture does not, by itself, imply homogeneous results in terms of performance or service quality, so its effective implementation remains an open empirical field.
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