Lilongwe
- Country
- Malawi
- Population
- 980K
- Projects
- 2
- First project
- 2019
- Best evidence
- Peer-reviewed
- Last verified
- 28 August 2026
Malawi's capital is one of the two districts where a national push to digitise vaccine cold-chain equipment first got tested — QR codes and a phone app instead of paper registers that once took years to reconcile.
The atlas documents 2 projects in Lilongwe, the earliest dating to 2019: 2 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is peer-reviewed (1 entry) — and links its sources.
All 2 projects in Lilongwe
✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.
Outcome: 2 ongoing — Evidence: 1 peer-reviewed · 1 media
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Where Lilongwe appears in the atlas's own analysis.
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- 🇧🇹 Thimphu: ARMS Digital Land & Property Records Same shift from paper to digital records — Lilongwe logs vaccine-fridge status by phone, Thimphu lets residents check land titles online.
- 🇸🇴 Kismayo: Kismayo Solar Mini-Grid for Refugee Returnees Both are donor-funded pilots for one population — Kismayo's mini-grid for refugees, Lilongwe's cold-chain tracker for two districts.
Official strategy and sources
📎 Cite this city
1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Lilongwe, Malawi.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/lilongwe/ (last verified 2026-08-28). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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