tectagrand-maker/ethiopia-digital-sovereignty

An open-source evidence and research platform studying digital sovereignty, data governance, identity infrastructure, consent, and institutional power in Ethiopia and comparable digital systems. # Ethiopia Digital Sovereignty Research A reusable, auditable research infrastructure for studying digital sovereignty, data governance, digital identity, consent and institutional power — focused on Ethiopia and comparable digital governance systems. ## Status This is a **research infrastructure** repository. It currently contains: - An SQLite evidence database with Pydantic v2 validation - A Source Registry with deterministic deduplication and status tracking - Controlled source acquisition with SHA-256 provenance - TXT / HTML / PDF text extraction - A researcher-driven evidence model (excerpt, claim, summary, interpretation) - Governance observations linked to evidence (12 dimensions) - Executable comparative analysis (JSON / CSV) - An evidence-backed case-study dossier framework (JSON / Markdown) - A research-gap prioritization and evidence-expansion framework - A deterministic evidence-findings synthesis layer (Step 11) - A deterministic evidence-traceable case-study narrative layer (Step 12) - A research-coverage status report - A small **real** source catalog + a small **real** evidence corpus - Synthetic demonstration fixtures, clearly labelled > **Important**: This repository does **not** contain conclusions or scores about > Ethiopia. It contains infrastructure, a source catalog, and a small evidence > corpus. Absence of evidence is reported as `missing_evidence`, never as a score. ## Research Workflow ``` SOURCE DISCOVERY ↓ SOURCE REGISTRATION ↓ SOURCE VERIFICATION ↓ SOURCE ACQUISITION → raw source + SHA-256 ↓ TEXT EXTRACTION → txt / html / pdf ↓ EVIDENCE EXTRACTION (researcher-entered) ↓ GOVERNANCE OBSERVATION ↓ COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ↓ CASE-STUDY DOSSIER ↓ RESEARCH-GAP PRIORITIZATION ↓ EVIDENCE FINDINGS SYNTHESIS ↓ CASE-STUDY NARRATIVE ``` ## Installation Requires Python >= 3.9. ```bash pip install -e ".[dev]" ``` ## Initialize the database ```bash python -m src.cli init ``` ## Source registry Import the curated source catalog: ```ba …