Design Technology for Community Reconciliation After Conflict

Over 500 communities in Nigeria experienced violent conflict between 2020 and 2025. Traditional reconciliation processes — led by elders, faith leaders, and community associations — are often effective but lack documentation, have no external accountability, and produce agreements that unravel because they are not recorded. Digital tools have almost no presence in community peace processes. Your challenge is to design a technology platform that supports community reconciliation processes led by local actors. It must work in areas with 2G connectivity, support use in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Fulfulde, enable the documentation and signing of reconciliation agreements by illiterate parties, and allow external observers to verify that a process was completed without exposing sensitive community information. Submit a design document (max 10 pages) including: the platform's role in the reconciliation process, how it handles low connectivity and low literacy, the privacy and data security model, how external observer access is structured, and a pilot plan with three communities in conflict-affected states. Judging criteria: 35% fit with how community reconciliation actually works, 30% accessibility for low-literacy users in multiple languages, 20% privacy and security design, 15% pilot plan.