Overview
Useful public information is spread across ministry sites, NISR datasets, PDFs, and people. Kivu's job is cited answers over those sources: for citizens finding a service or programme, and for teams reconstructing institutional knowledge, without pretending every fact belongs in one new database.
Ask a question in plain language and follow the answer back to a named source. The hard problem is trust: update ownership, permission boundaries, and answers that still show missing or conflicting evidence.
The first honest test is a narrow public question over a small set of NISR and ministry sources, measured by whether people find a correct, cited answer faster. Dashboards, investor portals, and national-scale roadmaps come after that test works.
Product shape
- Cited search and answers: Federated retrieval across approved datasets and documents, with sources that survive every generated reply.
- Data explorer: Search and compare public datasets across the economy, labour, health, agriculture, and population.
- Institutional memory (direction): Decisions, outcomes, and lessons with the evidence behind them.
- Briefings (direction): Short, reproducible summaries that link back to underlying data.
- Opportunities (direction): Government-backed programmes and public opportunities, only where sources are clear.
These are modules and directions, not a claim that every surface is shipped at national scale.
Sources in scope
Work is oriented around official public sources such as:
- EICV7
- Labour Force Survey 2024
- Census 2022
- National Accounts
- CFSVA
- FinScope
- Government budgets and performance indicators where published