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Antananarivo
- Country
- Madagascar
- Population
- 1.3M
- Projects
- 3
- First project
- 2024
- Track record
- 1 failed
- Best evidence
- Official
- Last verified
- 7 August 2026
- In the atlas since
- 16 July 2026
Antananarivo's entries are unusually honest about scarcity, because two of the three are documents of what the city cannot deliver. The utility publishes when the power and the water will be off. The flood authority publishes river levels against fixed thresholds. And the cable car built to carry commuters over the traffic has not moved a passenger since the protests that those shortages helped ignite.
The atlas documents 3 projects in Antananarivo, the earliest dating to 2024: 1 documented failure, 2 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (2 entries) — and links its sources.
How Antananarivo got smart
The most instructive layer here is a schedule. Since July 2024 the state water-and-power utility has published weekly forecasts of when the electricity will go out for the capital's grid, archived continuously, and from June 2024 daily water-rotation plans for nine areas against a production gap it put at about 60,000 m³ a day. A rationing plan is a data layer, and an unusually candid one: it documents the shortfall rather than the service.
Against that background the capital opened its urban cable car in August 2025 — 8.7 km, seven stations, 198 twelve-seat cabins, turning commutes of over an hour into rides of about ten minutes. It ran a few hours a day on diesel generators in a city short of power, and the solar park meant to free it from them was never built.
On 25 September 2025 the two stories met. Protests over the chronic water and power cuts became a national uprising; cable-car stations were vandalised and burned on the first day, the president was impeached within three weeks, and the line has not carried a passenger since. In June 2026 the transition president confirmed there is no restart plan and called it no priority — asking, of the generators, with what electricity it would run.
Timeline (2024–2025)
All 3 projects in Antananarivo
✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.
Outcome: 2 ongoing · 1 failed — Evidence: 2 official · 1 media
How the pieces connect
Editorial links between Antananarivo's own entries — the city as a system, not a list.
- APIPA Flood Alert System for the Antananarivo Plain ↔ Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation SchedulesTwo capital services that publish a schedule of scarcity: river levels against thresholds, outages against dates.
- Jirama Load-Shedding Forecasts and Water Rotation Schedules ↔ Antananarivo Urban Cable Car (Orange Line)The utility publishes when the power goes off; the cable car ran a few hours a day for want of it.
What's next
Plans and announced trajectories — not yet documented results.
What still works is the least glamorous instrument in the city. The flood authority's gauge-and-threshold bulletins turn river levels on the Ikopa, Sisaony and Mamba into formal alerts, and when the Sisaony passed its red threshold in February 2025 crews evacuated residents the same day. The flood came anyway. That is the honest measure of this city's data layer: it buys hours, and hours are worth having.
Deeper reads
Where Antananarivo appears in the atlas's own analysis.
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- 🇲🇱 Bamako: EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for Bamako Two capitals whose sole utility publishes when the power goes out; Bamako's schedule maps inequality, Antananarivo's preceded an uprising.
- 🇱🇾 Tripoli: GECOL Prepaid Electricity Meters Same scarcity axis: Tripoli's meters record who has paid, Antananarivo's Jirama publishes who goes dark and when.
Official strategy and sources
📎 Cite this city
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/antananarivo/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.