mosesdex/nigeria-security-platform

Four-phase open-data civic-tech platform tackling Nigeria's security crisis: live dashboard, offline PWA, SMS/USSD alerts, and a safety-first community reporting API. Built on ACLED/GDELT open data. # Nigeria Security Platform **Open-data civic technology tackling Nigeria's security crisis — across four phases.** Live site: **mosesdex.github.io This repository turns freely available conflict data into tools a Nigerian citizen, journalist, or responder can actually use. It is grounded in a fact-checked research report on Nigeria's security crisis (2024–2026) and built **entirely on open sources** — no login, paywall, CAPTCHA, or access control was bypassed to produce any of it. --- ## The four phases | Phase | What | Channel | Status | Path | |------|------|---------|--------|------| | **1** | Public-data dashboard — state/LGA choropleth, zone & hotspot rankings, national trend, live news signal | Web | **Live** (static) | `/web-dashboard` | | **2** | Offline-first mobile app — cached alerts, your-area risk, LGA lookup, safety info | Mobile PWA | **Live** (static) | `/mobile-pwa` | | **3** | SMS / USSD alert service for the rural north | Node service | Runnable (mock mode) | `/sms-service` | | **4** | Community incident-reporting API with human moderation | Node service | Runnable | `/reporting-api` | The **web app** (`webapp/server.js`) unifies all of the above into one Express server — it serves the entire frontend and mounts the reporting + SMS services as live APIs, so the community-reporting feature works in the browser end-to-end. Plus the interactive research report the whole thing is grounded in. ```bash cd webapp && npm install && npm start # → localhost (full app, live reporting) ``` Phases are ordered by **legal surface and difficulty**: the dashboard ships first (no user data at all); community reporting comes last, because doing it safely is the hardest part. --- ## Data sources — all open | Source | Use | Access | |--------|-----|--------| | **ACLED** ("Nigeria: Conflict Events" on the Humanitarian Data Exchange) | Events & fatalities by state, LGA, month (1997–2026) | Open, CC BY-NC 4. …