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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
2 August 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 aims to lift a birth-registration rate stuck near 46 percent, with a target of every school-age child holding a birth certificate by the 2026/27 school year.

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

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

Outcome: 1 ongoing — Evidence: 1 media

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 starts near 46%. 🇬🇦 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 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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