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Nigerian Developers competing in Developing Lagos Online Map-based Crime Reporter to win N350,000 Prize Award
Violent crimes, as well as petty crimes, are prevalent throughout Lagos and majority of these crimes go unreported. Lagosians are getting increasingly worried about the upsurge of criminal activities committed on a daily basis in the state

Spatial Technologies Ltd –Nigeria’s foremost mapping and GIS solution provider is inviting Nigerian web developers to enter the Lagos online map-based Crime Reporting app development competition that would create innovative online map-based solution which would empower victims or witnesses of muggings and street attacks in Lagos report these incidents consistently and effectively by using Google map to pinpoint exactly where they were targeted and providing additional details of the incident including pictures where appropriate. This way, victims and witnesses crowd report crime incidents across Lagos, telling their stories to the wider internet audience.


The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Yakubu Alkali, has disclosed that there has never been a successful robbery operation in the state since he took over the as police boss in January 2011 (Source: http://www.npf.gov.ng/npf/en/commands/zone-2/lagos-command)

The motivation for this competition, as Ireti Ajala –CEO of Spatial Technologies Ltd and the sole sponsor of this competition explained, is that "a significant portion of violent crimes in Lagos goes unreported. Most Lagosians may not agree with the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, however there is no documented evidence available in the public domain to challenge this position.The vision of this Lagos Crime Report online map project is therefore to bring together the best Nigerian GIS experts and web application developer communities to create an online map-based app using online Google map for reporting and documenting crime incidents across Lagos using crowd sourcing and the visual power of geographic maps”

The plan is to forward each reported incident to Lagos Police command and the Lagos state government from this portal. We cannot guarantee that any action would be taken in resolving each incident, this however must not stop the victims or witnesses of crimes in Lagos from reporting these incidents. The target of this competition is to use the power of crowd sourcing in making a difference when reporting crime statistics in Nigeria's most populous city. We have kept quiet for too long!

This is an open competition to discover how Nigerian web developers can create an online portal that would assist victims or witnesses of crimes in Lagos report these incidents efficiently using the visual power of location technologies.

Welcome to the Booth Camp
A panel of judges would evaluate all the received entries and select the best 6 talented developers who would be invited to the booth camp where in a Dragons' Den-style, the 6 selected developers would present or demonstrate their propositions before the judges.

The booth camp would be a 3star hotel in Lagos paid for by Spatial Technologies Ltd. The six selected developers would camp in the hotel for 2nights and fine tune their propositions. On the 3rd day, each selected developer would be invited to pitch the idea behind his/her entry before a panel of judges. They would also be ready to answer some touch questions about their entries.

Got any question about the competition?
Contact Ireti Ajala: iretia@spatialtechnologiesltd.com

Prize Award
The best developer would win a N350,000 prize award towards the development of his/her winning idea.

Judging Criteria
What will win? We are interested in entries that genuinely improve the public reporting capability of crime incidents in Lagos. Entries will be evaluated on the following simple broad criteria, which are loosely defined, in order not to constrain innovative and wide-ranging entries.
1) Ease of use
2) Usefulness
3) Potential
4) and … coolness

These criteria are a guide to entrants and to judges, whose decision will be final.

Interested in joining the competition? Get more details of what is expected here at this link http://lagosstreetmap..co.uk/2012/04/lagos-online-map-based-crime-reporting.html