🤖 AI-generated city profile, summarising the source-checked entries below — how this works
Luanda's working data layers were mostly built by someone other than the city: a Gulf terminal concessionaire that put the Port of Luanda's multipurpose terminal on a cloud operating system in eight weeks, an interior ministry that opened an 8,000 m² surveillance centre on Avenida Ho Chi Minh three weeks before Angola had a video-surveillance law, a national ticketing company whose GiraMais card is meant to end cash fares on Luanda's buses, and a state utility fitting prepaid electricity meters into homes that had never been metered at all. What the city government runs itself is the counter-example: a signal network once watched from a police control room over fibre, which by November 2025 had 30 of 110 junctions working, a broken control room and no date to fix it. The instruments Luanda most obviously needs it does not have — the water utility EPAL said in October 2024 that it owns no telemetry at all and learns of burst mains late.
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Three entries that show what Luanda is actually doing.
Angola set the day cash would stop being accepted on its buses. So many people queued at the counters to buy the card that the state ticketing company postponed the switch on the morning it was due.
Around four in five Angolan households have no electricity meter at all. The state utility is fitting 1.26 million prepaid ones — while the meters that actually report back go to companies, not to homes.
Angola switched on more than 700 cameras in Luanda and an 8,000 m² control centre three weeks before its video-surveillance law took effect. The only figure it has published since is how many cameras there are.
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All 5 projects in Luanda
On a time axis, by the year each one started — 2019 to 2024. Pick a dot to read what it was.
Angola switched on more than 700 cameras in Luanda and an 8,000 m² control centre three weeks before its video-surveillance law took effect. The only figure it has published since is how many cameras there are.
🇧🇩 Dhaka: CASE Traffic Signal AutomationThe atlas's two purest cases of installed signal technology that no institution kept running — Dhaka's never started, Luanda's stopped.
🇷🇼 Kigali: Tap&Go Cashless Urban Transit NetworkTwo African cashless-fare rollouts: Kigali's card took over three operators' revenue collection, Luanda's set a date for cash to stop.
