Roadmap
This page is written for funders, partners and government. It states plainly where the line between Phase 1 and Phase 2 sits — because the most important design decision in this platform is a thing we are refusing to ship.
Status
The line is simple: Phase 1 contains no personal data about any vulnerable person. Phase 2 does — and therefore does not exist until it can be done safely.
Everything in Phase 1 is public content and anonymous signals. It can help a household today and it cannot harm one.
Phase 2 follows a consenting household from "no documents" to "grant approved" — a named case, referred to a named organisation, with a status that moves. It is the most fundable part of this platform and the most dangerous, because it means holding data about children in crisis. The schema is designed. The build is gated behind the seven preconditions below, and we will not shortcut them — not for a funder, not for a deadline.
The gate
Each of these must exist before the first household record is created. This list is the pitch — an organisation that will build a register of vulnerable children without these is not one anyone should fund.
Only a SACSSP-registered social worker may open a case involving a minor. Not our staff, not an NPO administrator, not a volunteer.
Captured from the caregiver, timestamped, stored, and revocable at any time — with revocation actually deleting what it should.
Names, ID numbers, dates of birth — encrypted at the field level, not just at the disk level.
Every view of every record, by whom, when — append-only, and reviewable by an external party.
An organisation sees only the referrals made to it. No one browses the register. There is no register to browse.
Data about a child in crisis is not an asset to accumulate. Closed cases age out on a published schedule.
When a case reveals abuse or immediate danger, it goes to a named, qualified person — a person, not a form.
Phase 2, illustrated
Consent captured, social worker opens case
Pathway assigned, organisation accepts
IDs, certificates, caregiver proof
SASSA application lodged
Income reaches the household
This status pipeline is the entire funding argument. It is the difference between "we helped some families" and "we moved 340 households from undocumented to grant-receiving in twelve months" — a sentence no one in government can currently say at township level. Phase 1's anonymous demand data tells us where the households are stuck. Phase 2 is what moves them — safely, or not at all.
What we are asking for
Not one vague appeal — four concrete ones. Each is small, cheap for the partner, and immediately useful to households.
Our demand data will show, in numbers, how many households in Etwatwa are blocked on late birth registration and death certificates. We are asking for scheduled mobile-unit visits against that demand — aggregated, verified, and delivered to your unit as a ready-made service list.
First: check our pathway facts — every step cites its source and nothing publishes unverified. Then: help us map which local organisations have registered social workers, the keystone of Phase 2. This platform strengthens the NPO sector's visibility and compliance — DSD's own mandate.
Unclaimed grants are a measurable gap. Our pathways route eligible households to your offices with the correct documents on the first visit — fewer repeat queues for you, faster income for them. We ask only for facts confirmed and a named contact.
Phase 1 is self-built and live. Phase 2 needs funding precisely because doing it safely — social workers, encryption, audits — costs money. We are asking you to fund the version with the safeguards, because we will not ship the version without them.
If this roadmap reads like an organisation you could work with, the conversation starts with a fact-check meeting, not a funding ask. Contact Astute Tech Foundation — NPO 279-893, PBO 930085805, Section 18A approved.
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