Tunis runs two digital systems that could hardly be further apart in age. The city's own property-tax office has been online since February 2009 — still working, still on software from 2008, still reached over an unencrypted connection with a login code printed on the paper tax notice. The other is new and much larger: the RFR suburban railway, whose European signalling and central control post were contracted in 2013 to open in 2016 and carried their first passengers in 2023. Between them sits the pattern the atlas keeps finding here — announcements that outrun delivery, and quiet systems that keep running long after anyone stopped writing about them.

The atlas documents 2 projects in Tunis, the earliest dating to 2009: 2 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is independent (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 2 projects in Tunis

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

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Where Tunis appears in the atlas's own analysis.

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• 🇨🇩 Kinshasa: DGRK Digital Tax Collection Platform Both digitise local tax collection in an African capital — Kinshasa in stages since 2023, Tunis in one 2009 launch never revisited.
• 🇪🇨 Quito: Quito Metro Line 1: CITYFLO 350 Automatic Train Control Signalling Both bought their control layer from a European supplier; Quito runs CBTC on one metro line, Tunis intermittent ETCS-1 on suburban rail.

Official strategy and sources

📎 Cite this city

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

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