{
  "schema": 1,
  "project": "Arabati Wein (عربتي وين؟)",
  "url": "https://mycarsd.online",
  "support_page": "https://mycarsd.online/support.html",
  "stats": "https://mycarsd.online/stats.json",
  "updated": "2026-10-28",
  "currency": "USD",
  "status": "unfunded; seeking a fiscal sponsor and a Sudanese civil-society partner; no donation route open yet",
  "contact": "firasfmohammed@outlook.com",
  "raised_usd": 0,
  "first_goal_usd": 3000,
  "tiers": [
    {"rank": 0, "name": "Running now, unfunded", "amount_usd": 0,
     "includes": ["Registry, collectors, OCR and list parsing, standing watches, operator alerts, at the pace one volunteer and a home computer allow"]},
    {"rank": 1, "name": "Never offline", "amount_usd": 3000,
     "includes": ["Cloud server for collectors, hourly watch check and daily processing, with monitoring and backups; two years of hosting",
                  "Automatic notification to a watch registrant when their number appears",
                  "Clear the processing backlog once",
                  "Open-source release after a secrets and security review",
                  "Published privacy and safeguarding policies"]},
    {"rank": 2, "name": "Same-day registry", "amount_usd": 10000,
     "includes": ["Paid processing that keeps pace with intake (about US$540/month at current volume)",
                  "OCR for every new photo",
                  "WhatsApp and Telegram search bots",
                  "Low-data version of the site for Sudanese mobile networks",
                  "Monthly public statistics"]},
    {"rank": 3, "name": "People on the ground", "amount_usd": 25000,
     "includes": ["Part-time Sudanese Arabic community lead for twelve months",
                  "Verified directory of official impound yards and collection sites with a claim guide",
                  "Direct intake agreements with recovery-group admins and field platforms",
                  "Owner photo matching for cars with swapped chassis plates",
                  "Legal-aid referral path"]},
    {"rank": 4, "name": "An institution, not a laptop", "amount_usd": 60000,
     "includes": ["Registered non-profit with board, accounts and data-protection review",
                  "One engineer and one community lead for a year",
                  "Data-sharing agreement with the Sudan Police reporting platform and the Traffic Department",
                  "Open API and data exchange with other registries",
                  "Digital Public Good registration and an independent impact evaluation"]},
    {"rank": 5, "name": "Beyond Sudan", "amount_usd": 150000,
     "includes": ["Three years of sustained operation for Sudan",
                  "Deployable template for partner organisations in other conflict-affected countries",
                  "Multilingual interface and list parsers"]}
  ],
  "budget_12_months_usd": [
    {"line": "Always-on server, monitoring, backups", "basis": "about US$40 a month", "amount": 480},
    {"line": "Processing to keep pace with intake", "basis": "90,000 posts a month at a measured US$0.006 each", "amount": 6500},
    {"line": "Photo transcription", "basis": "about 60,000 photos a month at US$1.50 per thousand", "amount": 1080},
    {"line": "Messaging bots and notifications", "basis": "WhatsApp Business API, SMS gateway", "amount": 1200},
    {"line": "Hosting, domain, security review", "basis": "", "amount": 300},
    {"line": "Community lead, part time", "basis": "twelve months", "amount_range": [9600, 14400]},
    {"line": "Engineer, half time", "basis": "twelve months", "amount_range": [24000, 36000]},
    {"line": "Fiscal sponsor or registration, accounts", "basis": "typically 10% of funds", "amount": null}
  ],
  "budget_totals_usd": {"minimum_programme_no_salaries": 9500, "staffed_programme": [50000, 60000]},
  "principles": [
    "Free, always: no fee to search, register a watch or receive a lead",
    "Alerts need an exact chassis or plate; model scores never trigger one",
    "No private channel: we never ask for a chassis number in a direct message",
    "Photographed documents' text is never published",
    "Every record names its source and links to the original post",
    "Numbers are published honestly, including zero recoveries"
  ],
  "will_not": [
    "Recover a specific car",
    "Charge a family",
    "Contact a seller or holder",
    "Promise a match"
  ],
  "seeking": ["fiscal sponsor (Open Source Collective or equivalent)", "Sudanese civil-society co-applicant", "recovery-group and field-platform data partnerships", "in-kind cloud credits", "grants in the US$3k–60k range"]
}