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Bissau
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Bissau

Country
Guinea-Bissau
Population
490K
Projects
1
First project
2025
Best evidence
Media
Last verified
13 October 2026

🤖 AI-generated city profile, summarising the source-checked entries below — how this works

Bissau's first entry in the atlas is SIREC, Guinea-Bissau's push to move civil registration off paper. Launched at the city's 1st Civil Registry Office in January 2025 with UNICEF and UNDP support, the digital system moves birth, marriage and death records off paper books in a country where about 46 percent of children under five had their births registered in 2019 — a gain officials credit to registrars in hospitals, not to the software.

The atlas documents 1 project in Bissau: 1 still running without a verdict. The entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is media (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 1 project in Bissau

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

🏛️ SIREC Digital Civil Registry 📰 Media since 2025 · Live →

Outcome: 1 ongoing — Evidence: 1 media

Deeper reads

Where Bissau appears in the atlas's own analysis.

🧾 Evidence file: SIREC Digital Civil Registry

Compare with other cities

🇳🇬 Lagos Lagos State Residents Register and the LAG-ID Card Both digitise civil identity at very different scale: Lagos's LASRRA has enrolled millions since 2011, Bissau's SIREC went digital in 2025. 🇬🇦 Libreville Gabon's Electronic National ID Card (CNIE) & NIP Rollout Two 2024-25 African digital-ID pushes: Gabon's chip CNIE began in Libreville, Guinea-Bissau's SIREC digitised birth registers in Bissau. 🇹🇬 Lomé WURI Biometric Social Safety Program Two donor-backed West African ID drives in 2025: Togo's WURI biometric number vs Guinea-Bissau's SIREC digital birth registry.

Official strategy and sources

Câmara Municipal de Bissau — the documented SIREC civil registry is national, run by state registry authorities with UNICEF and UNDP supportThe organization driving the city's smart-city work.
↗ Bissau 2030 — Plano de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (2019)The official strategy document.
📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/bissau/ (last verified 2026-10-13). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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