Bamako's most useful public data service is an admission of failure. Since March 2024 the national electricity company has published the city's rotating blackout programme as a lookup: type your quartier, read when your power is due. It is precise enough to expose itself — the published windows show the wealthy business district getting three times the daily supply of outlying neighbourhoods. Alongside it sits an older, quieter effort: residents trained between 2020 and 2022 to map their own flood-prone drains and waste sites into OpenStreetMap, where the data outlived the project that funded it.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Bamako, the earliest dating to 2020: 1 with a documented success, 1 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Bamako

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

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

Deeper reads

Where Bamako appears in the atlas's own analysis.

Closest comparisons

One city the atlas reads next to Bamako — the reason first, then the entries it rests on. Chosen by hand from the Bamako threads below, not counted out of them.

1. 🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa

   Two capitals whose most dependable digital service is a published schedule of what they cannot supply — power in one, water in the other — beside flood tools built cheaply, from volunteers in one city and laser sensors in the other.

   • EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for Bamako ↔ UMAPS Water Rationing Calendar
   • OpenStreetMap Bamako Decentralized Mapping ↔ Río Choluteca Real-Time Flood Sensor Network (Sistema de Alerta Temprana)

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Every editorial link from Bamako's entries into another city, strongest first. Each one is a statement about two projects, not about two cities — the three above are the ones the atlas is willing to make at city level.

• 🇬🇧 Bristol: Damp Busters: Citizen-Built Damp Sensors Two cases of residents producing the record themselves, and of the question who is trusted to keep it.
• 🇿🇦 Cape Town: Holding Its Own Customers Below the National Load-Shedding Stage Two answers to one shortage: Cape Town spends pumped storage to hold customers a stage below it, Bamako publishes when the lights go out.
• 🇬🇭 Accra: ECG Smart Prepaid Metering in Greater Accra Two West African utilities under strain: Accra's ECG instrumented the customer's meter, Bamako's EDM instrumented only the announcement.
• 🇦🇴 Luanda: ENDE Prepaid Electricity Meters in Luanda Two state distributors, two digital priorities: Luanda's ENDE bought 1.26m prepaid meters, Bamako's EDM bought a schedule everyone can read.
• 🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa: Río Choluteca Real-Time Flood Sensor Network (Sistema de Alerta Temprana) Two low-cost flood tools: Bamako mapped flood-prone drains with volunteers (2020-22); Tegucigalpa wired laser river sensors in 2024.
• 🇵🇭 Cauayan City: Drone-Based 3D Digital Twin Different tech, same goal: Bamako mapped flood/waste sites by hand; Cauayan built a drone-based 3D twin for typhoon damage assessment.

Official strategy and sources

📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Bamako, Mali.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/bamako/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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