Take Construction Permitting in Nigerian Cities Fully Digital

According to the World Bank Doing Business index, obtaining a construction permit in Nigeria is one of the most time-consuming in Africa. The current process involves physical visits to multiple agencies, manual plan submission, sequential approvals with no visibility into status, and extensive informal facilitation. The result: most small and medium construction projects proceed without permits, contributing to the building collapse epidemic and tax revenue loss. Your challenge is to design a fully digital construction permitting system for a Nigerian state capital city. It must reduce the process to under 30 days for standard residential buildings, allow plan submission and review online, give applicants real-time status visibility, and eliminate the need for physical visits to any government office. It must work within existing Nigerian state government IT infrastructure constraints. Submit a system design document (max 12 pages) including: the end-to-end digital workflow, how plan review is conducted digitally by multiple agencies, the status visibility interface for applicants, how inspections are scheduled and recorded digitally, how the system connects to existing state ICTS, and a plan to deploy in one state capital within 18 months. Judging criteria: 40% process redesign quality and time reduction, 30% multi-agency digital workflow, 20% applicant experience design, 10% state IT integration plan.