Help a Nigerian State Build a Digital Land Registry

Land titling in Nigeria is plagued by paper-based registries that are vulnerable to fire, manipulation, and simple loss. When land disputes go to court, the absence of reliable registry records means outcomes depend on whoever brings the most persuasive document set. Several Nigerian states have announced plans to digitise their land registries. Almost none have succeeded because the migration from paper to digital is poorly designed and politically complex. Your challenge is to design a land registry digitisation programme for one Nigerian state that converts existing paper records to digital format, prevents manipulation of digital records, creates a public search portal, and establishes an ongoing registration process for new transactions. The programme must be implementable within 36 months with a state budget allocation below ₦2 billion. Submit a programme design document (max 12 pages) including: the legacy record digitisation methodology, data quality and completeness challenges and how they are resolved, the anti-manipulation architecture of the digital registry, the public search portal design, the new transaction registration process, cost model, and implementation timeline. Judging criteria: 35% digitisation methodology for legacy records, 30% anti-manipulation architecture, 20% public portal design, 15% cost and timeline realism.