Cape Verde is pursuing an ambitious national transformation across renewable energy, digital government, resilient infrastructure, tourism and the blue economy. These priorities are implemented across multiple islands, institutions, public companies, contractors and international financing programmes.
ISB's Cape Verde demonstrator explores how this fragmented portfolio could be organised into one clear public delivery system: showing where projects are located, what national objective they support, who finances them, what stage they have reached and what information remains unavailable.
This demonstrator was independently developed by Island State Bureau using publicly available information. It is not affiliated with, commissioned by, or endorsed by the Government of Cape Verde. Project information may be incomplete or subject to change.
Cape Verde's geography creates a distinctive delivery challenge. National programmes must operate across islands with different populations, infrastructure systems, economic roles and levels of connectivity. A single initiative may involve a central ministry, a special project-management unit, municipalities, public utilities, private operators and several international development partners.
Important information often exists, but it is distributed across procurement notices, environmental assessments, project documents, press releases, financing agreements and institutional websites. This makes it difficult to form a simple national picture of what is being delivered, where it is happening and what should happen next.
Projects and services must be coordinated across islands with different infrastructure needs and logistical constraints.
Delivery may involve ministries, municipalities, public enterprises, regulators, project units and international partners.
Major programmes can combine national resources with financing from the World Bank, African Development Bank, European Union and other institutions.
Project status, procurement activity, budgets, implementation documents and results are often published through separate systems.
The challenge is not necessarily the absence of projects. It is the absence of one coherent view connecting them.
ISB Atlas would create a common structure for understanding Cabo Verde's development portfolio. Instead of treating every project as an isolated document or procurement process, the system would connect each intervention to its island, sector, institution, financing source, delivery stage and national objective.
The public demonstrator does not claim to reproduce internal government information. It shows how publicly available information can be transformed into a clearer national delivery architecture, and where government-validated data would make that architecture more useful.
Bring major public and internationally financed programmes into one searchable national portfolio.
Show which projects affect Santiago, São Vicente, Sal, Boa Vista, Maio, Santo Antão, São Nicolau, Fogo and Brava.
Identify the responsible ministry, public entity, implementing agency or project-management unit where publicly available.
Connect projects to publicly disclosed financiers, budgets and programme structures.
Organise interventions by preparation, procurement, implementation, operation or completion, only where this can be verified.
Clearly distinguish verified public facts from inferred status, missing information and illustrative elements.
Cape Verde is expanding renewable generation, battery storage and electricity-sector capacity as part of its transition toward a more resilient and lower-carbon energy system.
The Digital Cape Verde programme supports digital competitiveness, connectivity, entrepreneurship and improved digital public services. Cape Verde has also pursued the goal of digitising a growing share of public services.
Transport, urban infrastructure, ports and public assets must withstand climate pressures while maintaining connectivity between islands and communities.
Tourism remains central to Cape Verde's economy, while blue-economy programmes seek to diversify growth through maritime industries, local enterprise and more sustainable use of ocean resources.
Digitalisation, public-enterprise reform and stronger programme execution can help the state deliver services more consistently across the archipelago.
The demonstrator is designed to eventually support all nine inhabited islands. Its initial narrative focuses on four representative island contexts.
Santiago contains the national capital, central government institutions and a significant share of the country's population. It provides the clearest view of how national administration, infrastructure, public services and economic-development programmes interact.
São Vicente is strategically important for maritime activity, Porto Grande, Mindelo's urban economy and Cape Verde's technology ambitions. It illustrates the relationship between ports, digital infrastructure, resilience, public services and the blue economy.
Sal demonstrates the infrastructure pressures produced by tourism, aviation, water demand, energy use and rapid economic activity. It is a strong example of why island-level delivery systems must connect national investment with local carrying capacity.
Maio provides a valuable example of how targeted investments in ports, renewable energy and local connectivity can influence the development trajectory of a smaller island. It also demonstrates the importance of tracking dependencies between infrastructure projects.
Future coverage concept: Boa Vista, Santo Antão, São Nicolau, Fogo and Brava.
Presented as examples identified from public information, not as ISB projects. Where financing figures are not securely stored as verified data, entries read "Public financing information available" rather than guess a value.
A World Bank-supported programme designed to strengthen Cape Verde's digital competitiveness and improve digital public services through digital infrastructure, enabling regulation, skills, entrepreneurship and public-sector modernisation.
The purpose of this record is not to infer confidential implementation status. It demonstrates how technical, financial and institutional information could be organised into a consistent format for ministers, programme teams, municipalities and development partners.
Directly supported by a government, financier or implementing-agency publication.
The latest stage identified in an available dated source, without assuming that no later progress has occurred.
Information that would need confirmation from the responsible institution before operational use.
A workflow, alert, field or interface element included to demonstrate how a future deployment could work.
This confidence framework prevents the demonstrator from presenting assumptions as facts. A government deployment would replace fragmented public reporting with validated information provided directly by authorised institutions.
The transition from demonstrator to operational system would begin with a limited portfolio rather than a full national rollout. ISB would work with the responsible institutions to validate the data model, select priority programmes and establish a practical reporting process.
Agree which programmes and institutions are included.
Review the public demonstrator with authorised government counterparts and replace assumptions with validated information.
Create common fields for ownership, financing, milestones, dependencies, risk and next actions.
Organise the selected projects into national, sector and island views.
Define how institutions update information, escalate issues and prepare executive reporting.
Train the relevant teams and produce recommendations for expansion.
ISB does not replace ministries, project units or existing technical systems. It creates the common delivery layer connecting them.
A concise view of national priorities, delivery status and decisions requiring intervention.
A shared structure for coordinating milestones, dependencies, documents and responsibilities.
Clearer visibility into how national programmes affect each island and local community.
More consistent programme information, implementation evidence and reporting structures.
More understandable public information on infrastructure and national-development initiatives.
The demonstrator remains selective rather than pretending to contain every public project in Cape Verde. Its purpose is to prove the value of a common national-delivery structure.
Identify relevant programmes, institutions, public documents and national objectives.
Convert inconsistent project information into a common portfolio model.
Separate confirmed facts from outdated reporting, unknown status and illustrative content.
Link projects to islands, sectors, institutions, financing and national priorities.
Define how authorised teams would maintain, use and govern the information in a live deployment.
Sources should be dated and attached to the relevant project record wherever possible. A publication date is not automatically treated as the current implementation status.
Island State Bureau has not independently audited the underlying project information. Inclusion in the demonstrator does not constitute an assessment of project performance.
Independent Public-Data Demonstrator — This demonstrator was independently developed by Island State Bureau using publicly available information. It is not affiliated with, commissioned by, or endorsed by the Government of Cape Verde. Project information may be incomplete or subject to change.
The Cape Verde demonstrator shows how scattered public information can become the foundation of a clearer national portfolio. With institutional participation, the same architecture could support programme coordination, executive decisions and more consistent reporting across the islands.
For governments, public institutions and development partners.
