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Make Nigerian Sports Facilities Accessible to Ordinary Citizens
Nigeria has thousands of government sports facilities that are underused by the public and over-used by a small elite. Design the access and booking system that changes this.
Closes 10 Sept 2026
The brief
Federal and state government sports facilities — stadia, sports halls, swimming pools, tennis courts — are legally accessible to the public in Nigeria but practically inaccessible. There is no booking system, no published pricing, no way to reserve court time. Access is managed informally by facility attendants who prioritise connected users and extract informal payments. The result is that expensive public infrastructure is underused while ordinary Nigerians have nowhere to exercise.
Your challenge is to design a sports facility access and booking system for Nigerian government facilities in one state. It must allow citizens to discover available facilities, book time slots up to one week in advance, pay standard government rates via mobile money (no informal payments), and provide facility managers with a usage dashboard. The system must be deployable without requiring renovation or technology upgrades to the facilities themselves.
Submit a system design document (max 10 pages) including: the facility discovery and booking interface, mobile money payment integration with government revenue systems, facility manager dashboard, how informal payment extraction is designed out, how maintenance issues are reported, and a plan to deploy in 50 facilities in one state within 12 months.
Judging criteria: 35% booking system usability and anti-informal-payment design, 30% government payment integration, 20% facility manager experience, 15% deployment plan.