mapomo-africa/mapomo

Mapomo: open-source infrastructure for estimating campaign spending in African elections # Mapomo **Open-source infrastructure for estimating campaign spending in African elections.** This repository is the front door. It holds no product code. It holds what the project is, where it is going, how it is governed, and why the technical decisions are what they are. ## The problem Fifty-one African countries hold elections. One publishes political donations online. Campaign finance disclosure, where it exists at all, arrives months late, on paper, in aggregate, and unverifiable. Meanwhile the spending itself is in plain sight: a billboard has a rental price, a rally has a cost per person, a radio spot has a rate card, a branded convoy has a day rate. The money is invisible. Its traces are not. ## The approach Count the traces from public signals. Multiply by real unit costs, calibrated by researchers on the ground. Publish the estimate with its methodology, its sources, and its uncertainty. Mapomo publishes estimates, not verdicts. Humans verify; AI counts. ## The repositories **Foundation, public from day one** | Repository | Role | |---|---| | `schemas` | The output contract. Everything depends on it; it depends on nothing. | | `core` | Shared libraries: ingestion, provenance, unit-cost engine, uncertainty propagation, storage adapters. | | `methodology` | Versioned estimation protocols, validation procedures, accuracy notes. | | `reference-data` | Unit costs, media rate cards, entity registries, per country, every value sourced. | | `models` | Model cards, training and evaluation configs. Weights on Hugging Face. | | `.github` | Org profile, contribution rules, code of conduct, security policy, templates. | | `site` | mapomo.org | **Applications, published when they run** | Repository | Role | |---|---| | `ad-spend-tracker` | Digital political advertising, spend and reach | | `visibility-index` | Physical campaign presence converted to money via real unit costs | | `money-flow-mapper` | Declared finance against estimated finance, and the gap …