Project Details
Title:
Eye of Ra (Financial Inclusion)
Details:
Ghana lost GH₵18.4 billion to procurement irregularities in 2024 — a 109% increase from the previous year. Less than 0.5% of lost funds are ever recovered. The Public Procurement Authority oversees thousands of contracts annually across hundreds of public entities, yet no automated early-warning system exists. Every fraud flag is raised after the money is already spent. Auditors write reports. Parliament debates. The same institutions appear in the same findings year after year. Eye of Ra addresses this directly — an AI-powered procurement fraud detection system that automatically scores every public contract for fraud risk, assigns a legally-grounded action tier, and explains every flag in plain English using Ghana's own Public Procurement Act 663 as its legal backbone.
Eye of Ra aims to shift Ghana's procurement oversight from reactive to proactive. Specifically: to automatically detect fraud patterns in public procurement contracts before funds are disbursed; to ground every detection flag in specific provisions of the Public Procurement Act 663 so findings are legally actionable; to make procurement risk data publicly accessible to citizens, journalists, and oversight bodies through a live dashboard; and to demonstrate that meaningful AI accountability infrastructure can be built on Ghana's own publicly available data at minimal cost — establishing a replicable model for AI-driven public sector accountability across Ghana.
Eye of Ra was built entirely on Ghanaian government data — PPA Annual Reports (2021–2024) and Auditor-General Reports (2021–2023). Every detection engine is grounded in the Public Procurement Act 663, Ghana's governing procurement law. Every institution flagged — Ministry of Finance, BOST, GPHA, COCOBOD, NSS — is a real Ghanaian public entity whose flags are independently corroborated by the Auditor-General's own published findings. The system requires no foreign datasets, no imported frameworks, and no external validation. It is built by a Ghanaian student, on Ghanaian data, to solve a Ghanaian problem. At scale, with access to full PPA contract data, Registrar General supplier records, and GIFMIS financial data, it becomes national procurement intelligence infrastructure — at an estimated operating cost of under $20 USD monthly.