Build the Road Safety Data Infrastructure Nigeria Needs to Save 40,000 Lives a Year

Nigeria has one of the world's highest road fatality rates. FRSC and state traffic agencies collect crash data, but it is incomplete, inconsistently formatted, and rarely shared across states. The result is that road safety interventions are targeted by intuition rather than evidence. Black spots — road segments with abnormally high crash rates — are not systematically identified. Driver behaviour patterns that predict crash risk are not tracked. The data that could save thousands of lives is neither collected nor used. Your challenge is to design a national road safety data collection and analysis system that integrates crash reports from FRSC, hospital emergency records, and insurance claims into a single database, automatically identifies road black spots, and generates monthly analytical reports for road safety agencies and state governments. Submit a system design document (max 12 pages) including: the data source integration approach for each input stream, data standardisation methodology, the black spot identification algorithm, the reporting product for agencies, how data is maintained and updated, and a plan to cover all six geopolitical zones within 24 months. Judging criteria: 40% data integration and standardisation design, 30% black spot identification algorithm, 20% reporting product design, 10% geographic coverage plan.