Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's commercial capital and one of Africa's fastest-growing cities, sprawling along the Indian Ocean with much of its population in unplanned settlements that flood heavily each rainy season. Its most influential smart-city work has been about data rather than hardware: the World Bank-funded Ramani Huria programme trained students and volunteers to map roughly half the city onto OpenStreetMap, turning invisible informal neighbourhoods into open flood-resilience data. Together with the city's 2016 bus rapid transit smart-card system, it sketches a metropolis leaning on open data and community mapping to manage rapid, often informal, growth.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Dar es Salaam, the earliest dating to 2015: 1 with a documented success, 1 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (2 entries) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Dar es Salaam

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Outcome: 1 succeeded · 1 ongoing — Evidence: 2 official

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📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/dar-es-salaam/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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