Kira · Community attack warning system
When bandits attack a community, people have a phone but nobody to call.
Kira is a community attack warning system for north western Nigeria. A registered person flashes a number and hangs up. In seconds, neighbouring communities along the track get a clear warning in there local dialets and English: where it is, which way it’s moving, and what to do.
The problem in one line
Nigeria’s national early warning publishes monthly bulletins. Attacks finish in minutes. The next village down the track usually finds out when the gunfire starts.
How Kira works
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Someone flashes a line
Two numbers, two meanings. Line A = warning signs (scouting, motorcycles gathering). Line B = attack now. No typing, no airtime, works on any handset — call and hang up.
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Kira knows which village
Only registered community reporters can raise the alarm. Their number is hashed and mapped to a village — never put in an outbound message.
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Narrow first, wide when confirmed
One report alerts only the next villages on the track, labelled UNCONFIRMED. A second independent report (or a vouched leader) escalates to CONFIRMED and widens the ring — including direction of travel when known.
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Fixed messages, not AI prose
Outbound SMS uses fixed Hausa and English templates with slots for place and direction. AI may help parse inbound detail — it never writes the warning people receive.
What the Ops Center shows
Live incidents, which villages were alerted along the track (and which neighbours were filtered out by direction), and every message that was sent. For the hackathon demo, use Simulate flash on the ops screen — same pipeline as a real missed call.
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