Huawei smart city technologies deployed in Gaborone and Francistown

Huawei smart city technologies deployed in Gaborone and Francistown
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (28 August 2019, Documented, , No description)
City	Gaborone, Francistown (BW)
Country	Botswana
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Safe City Software by Huawei
Information Certainty	Speculative
Primary sources	1, 2, 3, 4
Datasets Used	Huawei (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Analytics, Criminal investigations, Surveillance
runs search software
managed by	Government of Botswana
used by	Botswana Police Service, Huawei
Potentially used by
Information Certainty	0
Summary	Botswana and Huawei have longstanding cooperation. President Mokgweetsi Masisi said, he takes Huawei as his first stop during the China visit, this is not a coincident. He said Huawei’s achievements in ICT area is respectable, and Botswana is cooperating with Huawei in innovations, so as to promote digital transformation of Botswana. Yi Xiang said Botswana is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. For many years, Huawei has taken active part in Botswana ICT planning and development, and built wonderful relationships with local operators and enterprises, so as to support building ubiquitos connectivity and ICT sector in Botswana”. President Mokgweetsi Masisi said Botswana wants to improve governance efficiency, socio-economic development, and sustainable development through leverage of ICT, and demonstrate successful cases and experience to the whole world. Therefore, it is natural for Botswana to select Huawei, and we look forward to having more exchanges and interactions with Huawei”. In 2019, it was reported that Huawei were providing safe city technology to Gaborone, with planned developments in Francistown.

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Information Certainty: Speculative

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

Summary

In Botswana, Huawei has provided support for two safe city projects. Huawei's Safe Cities are purportedly for the benefit of crime reduction, but often extend to mass surveillance, with a focus on the interoperability of computer vision technologies. So far, cameras have certainly been installed in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, and are planned for Francistown, with the ultimate aim of cross-Botswana coverage. The installation process has been mired in political controversy over tendering, with Botswanas Public Procurement and Asset Board disputing the contracts.

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Safe City Software by Huawei
Institutions ⠉
Datasets	Huawei (Dataset) Unknown Dataset 0131
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (19 November 2017, Documented, , No description)
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities
Managed by	Government of Botswana
Used by	Huawei Botswana Police Service

Location:

City	Gaborone Francistown (BW)
Country ⠉	Botswana Botswana

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