Give Nigerians Visibility Into What Is Happening with Their Court Cases

The opacity of Nigerian court proceedings is a source of deep injustice. Litigants — particularly those who cannot afford to pay their lawyer to attend every mention — have no access to case status information. Dates are adjourned without notice to parties. Hearing records are inaccessible. Corruption flourishes in information gaps. Some magistrate and High Court registries have attempted case tracking portals with limited success, and consistent failure to maintain accurate data. Your challenge is to design a court case tracking and transparency system for Nigerian state High Courts and Magistrate Courts. It must give registered litigants access to their case status, adjournment notifications, and hearing records via SMS and a basic web interface, integrate with court registry processes without replacing their existing systems, and be sustainable without perpetual government IT maintenance. Submit a system design document (max 10 pages) including: how case data is entered at source, the litigant notification architecture, how accuracy is maintained over time, the sustainability model, how the system avoids becoming a tool for third-party harassment, and a plan to deploy in five state court systems. Judging criteria: 35% data accuracy and source integration, 30% litigant notification design, 20% sustainability model, 15% anti-harassment safeguards.