{
 "schemaVersion": "1.0.0",
 "constitutionVersion": "1.0.0",
 "createdAt": "2026-08-12T00:00:00Z",
 "description": "Append-only Evidence Passport records. Old revisions are immutable; corrections create a new revision and preserve the previous permalink.",
 "entity": {
  "type": "project",
  "id": "niamey-telecom-backbone",
  "title": "Niamey Urban Fibre Loop — Trans-Saharan Backbone Project",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://1001smartcities.org/projects/niamey-telecom-backbone/"
 },
 "currentRevisionId": "2026-08-28-p4-uplift",
 "revisions": [
  {
   "id": "2026-08-28-p4-uplift",
   "createdAt": "2026-08-28T06:26:26Z",
   "effectiveAt": "2026-08-28",
   "changeType": "baseline",
   "summary": "Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 8 claims and 3 source dossiers.",
   "preparedBy": {
    "type": "automation",
    "label": "AI-assisted evidence preparation",
    "humanApproved": false
   },
   "review": {
    "status": "unreviewed",
    "by": null,
    "date": null,
    "note": "Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither."
   },
   "changes": [
    {
     "operation": "add",
     "path": "/evidencePassport",
     "summary": "Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers."
    },
    {
     "operation": "add",
     "path": "/revisionHistory",
     "summary": "Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision."
    }
   ],
   "snapshotHash": "sha256:caba3ec5ad5636cfc5abc38378ff8d3049a42c183e76e9a322c16a5667edb219",
   "snapshot": {
    "asOf": "2026-08-28",
    "projectFingerprint": "sha256:f39100c692829a9e0f9781295909b35c7190ac52f134d64bb48c876971b76eb3",
    "assurance": {
     "status": "unreviewed",
     "scope": "evidence-passport-revision",
     "statement": "AI-assisted structural preparation. This revision has not been reviewed by a human or subject-matter expert.",
     "machineChecks": [
      "schema",
      "publication-diff-contract",
      "material-project-fingerprint",
      "claim-text-drift",
      "source-reference-resolution",
      "complete-source-dossier",
      "snapshot-hash"
     ]
    },
    "projectState": {
     "status": "construction",
     "outcome": "ongoing",
     "evidenceGrade": "official",
     "timeline": {
      "started": 2016,
      "ended": null
     }
    },
    "governance": {
     "operator": "Niger Ministry of Communication, Posts and Digital Economy (DTS/FO project coordination unit)",
     "actorTypes": [
      "national-government"
     ],
     "fundingModel": "mixed",
     "fundingDescription": "African Development Bank / African Development Fund",
     "cost": "≈EUR 43 million, about US$50 million at the euro's 19 November 2025 rate of 1.1540 dollars (US Federal Reserve H.10 series DEXUSEU) — African Development Fund concessional financing plus a national counterpart",
     "ownership": null,
     "decisionRights": null,
     "exitConditions": null
    },
    "claims": [
     {
      "id": "clm-ab5441faff5c8302",
      "field": "snippet",
      "text": "approved a EUR 31.4 million loan and a EUR 12.5 million grant on 9 December 2016 for Niger's national component of the Trans-Sahara Optical Fibre Backbone",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-9a35c66515fe998a"
      ],
      "supportNote": "The approval release gives both amounts and the board date.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-9a22f51b60360c74",
      "field": "snippet",
      "text": "a 1,031-km national and cross-border network on five routes - to the Algerian, Chad, Nigerian, Benin and Burkina Faso borders",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-bff5e8a364fcde3f"
      ],
      "supportNote": "The handover release gives the length and lists all five routes.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-fd3e9d0f52f3f0cb",
      "field": "snippet",
      "text": "an 88-km urban loop in Niamey that will connect the main administrative sites to a future Tier III national data centre",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-bff5e8a364fcde3f"
      ],
      "supportNote": "Quoted almost verbatim, including the future tense.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-54624a52b684dbd3",
      "field": "snippet",
      "text": "Provisional acceptance of the fibre sections was signed in Niamey on 14 November 2025",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-bff5e8a364fcde3f"
      ],
      "supportNote": "The release dates the ceremony and names the milestone.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-50d6ec30e5bd4afa",
      "field": "impact",
      "text": "The 2016 approval expected the project to be complete by 2020 and the internet penetration rate to have doubled by then, from 15% to 30% of the Nigerien population",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-9a35c66515fe998a"
      ],
      "supportNote": "Both the completion year and the penetration target are in the approval release.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-6c896f423d094f15",
      "field": "impact",
      "text": "in November 2025, the fibre sections reached provisional acceptance; the data centre the Niamey loop is built to reach is still described as future",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-bff5e8a364fcde3f"
      ],
      "supportNote": "The handover release is the milestone and still calls the data centre future.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-eb10d4b25ed10957",
      "field": "impact",
      "text": "No source in this entry reports against the penetration target",
      "statementKind": "descriptive",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-bff5e8a364fcde3f",
       "src-4df8bfba386bc304"
      ],
      "supportNote": "Neither the 2025 handover release nor the June 2026 ministerial interview returns to the 15-to-30-per-cent target.",
      "caveat": "An absence in the sources, not a statement in them.",
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "clm-94902abe71f55658",
      "field": "lesson",
      "text": "in June 2026 the minister was still describing the next steps as upgrading the national backbone from 100 to 800 gigabits and discussing a second phase of 3,500 to 4,000 further kilometres",
      "statementKind": "quantitative",
      "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record",
      "mappingStatus": "mapped",
      "sourceRefs": [
       "src-4df8bfba386bc304"
      ],
      "supportNote": "Both figures come from the June 2026 interview.",
      "caveat": null,
      "interpretation": {
       "added": false,
       "interpolation": false,
       "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion."
      }
     }
    ],
    "sources": [
     {
      "id": "src-9a35c66515fe998a",
      "title": "African Development Bank Group — board approval (financier)",
      "url": "https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/afdb-commits-eur44-million-to-reinforce-high-speed-broadband-access-in-niger-16558",
      "publisher": {
       "name": null,
       "domain": "afdb.org",
       "classification": "not-classified"
      },
      "sourceType": "web-page",
      "language": "und",
      "role": "claim-evidence",
      "claimRefs": [
       "clm-ab5441faff5c8302",
       "clm-50d6ec30e5bd4afa"
      ],
      "temporal": {
       "publishedAt": "2016-12-13",
       "updatedAt": null,
       "sourceCheckedAt": null,
       "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-28",
       "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-28",
       "retrievedAt": null,
       "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded"
      },
      "locator": {
       "type": "descriptive-source-note",
       "value": "Approval release: \"On Friday, December 9, 2016, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved a loan of EUR 31.4 million and a grant of EUR 12.5 million to the Republic of Niger to finance the national component of the project of the Trans-Saharan fiber-optic backbone (DTS)\", and \"By 2020, at the completion of the project, the penetration rate of internet services should have doubled, from 15% to 30%\". Its 1,510 km figure covers the Niger-Chad build together, a wider scope than the 1,031 km later reported for Niger.",
       "exact": false
      },
      "preservation": {
       "archiveUrl": null,
       "archivedAt": null,
       "contentHash": null,
       "status": "not-captured"
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "src-bff5e8a364fcde3f",
      "title": "African Development Bank Group — provisional acceptance (financier)",
      "url": "https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/press-releases/niger-takes-major-step-towards-high-speed-connectivity-handover-over-1000-km-fibre-optic-cable-88768",
      "publisher": {
       "name": null,
       "domain": "afdb.org",
       "classification": "not-classified"
      },
      "sourceType": "web-page",
      "language": "und",
      "role": "claim-evidence",
      "claimRefs": [
       "clm-9a22f51b60360c74",
       "clm-fd3e9d0f52f3f0cb",
       "clm-54624a52b684dbd3",
       "clm-6c896f423d094f15",
       "clm-eb10d4b25ed10957"
      ],
      "temporal": {
       "publishedAt": "2025-11-19",
       "updatedAt": null,
       "sourceCheckedAt": null,
       "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-28",
       "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-28",
       "retrievedAt": null,
       "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded"
      },
      "locator": {
       "type": "descriptive-source-note",
       "value": "Handover release, dated 19 November 2025 on the page: \"On 14 November, an official ceremony was held in Niamey\" for \"provisional acceptance of the fibre-optic sections\"; \"The cost of the project is estimated at EUR 43 million\"; the two components are \"a 1,031-km national and cross-border fibre-optic network\" and \"a Tier III national data centre\"; the five routes reach the Algerian, Chad, Nigerian, Benin and Burkina Faso borders; \"In addition to these five sections, an 88-km urban local loop will connect the main administrative sites to the future national data centre.\" The release states no completion percentage. Written by the financier, not by an outside auditor.",
       "exact": false
      },
      "preservation": {
       "archiveUrl": null,
       "archivedAt": null,
       "contentHash": null,
       "status": "not-captured"
      }
     },
     {
      "id": "src-4df8bfba386bc304",
      "title": "Agence Nigérienne de Presse (state news agency)",
      "url": "https://anp.ne/communication-et-numerique-le-niger-ambitionne-de-devenir-un-hub-regional-des-telecommunications/",
      "publisher": {
       "name": null,
       "domain": "anp.ne",
       "classification": "not-classified"
      },
      "sourceType": "web-page",
      "language": "und",
      "role": "claim-evidence",
      "claimRefs": [
       "clm-eb10d4b25ed10957",
       "clm-94902abe71f55658"
      ],
      "temporal": {
       "publishedAt": "2026-06-18",
       "updatedAt": null,
       "sourceCheckedAt": null,
       "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-28",
       "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-28",
       "retrievedAt": null,
       "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded"
      },
      "locator": {
       "type": "descriptive-source-note",
       "value": "Interview with the Minister of Communication and New Information Technologies on 17 June 2026: the modernisation of the national backbone will raise its capacity \"de 100 à 800 gigabits\", and discussions continue on a second phase of the Trans-Saharan backbone covering \"près de 3.500 à 4.000 kilomètres supplémentaires de fibre optique\".",
       "exact": false
      },
      "preservation": {
       "archiveUrl": null,
       "archivedAt": null,
       "contentHash": null,
       "status": "not-captured"
      }
     }
    ],
    "coverage": {
     "claimsTotal": 8,
     "claimsMapped": 8,
     "sourcesTotal": 3,
     "sourcesUsedByClaims": 3,
     "sourcesWithPublicationDate": 3,
     "sourcesWithArchive": 0,
     "sourcesWithExactLocator": 0,
     "sourcesWithContentHash": 0
    },
    "limits": [
     "Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.",
     "Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.",
     "A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.",
     "The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim."
    ]
   }
  }
 ]
}