An engineering firm for public institutions.
Afrikabal Inc. designs and builds digital public infrastructure, distributed-ledger systems, and other complex software. We work with governments, NGOs, and multilateral institutions.
- Delaware, USA
- Founded 2024
- Governments · NGOs · Multilaterals
We build for the Global South and other emerging markets, where a field officer with an intermittent signal and a low-end device is a normal condition to design for, not an edge case.
Correctness as a policy commitment.
Four things that stay true across every engagement, regardless of the institution or the system.
Correctness as policy
These are systems a state depends on. When one goes down, a citizen can't renew a document, a hospital can't verify a patient, a treasury can't reconcile a payment. We treat availability and correctness as policy commitments, not engineering nice-to-haves.
Boring technology, on purpose
We choose boring, durable technology on purpose, because an institution's own engineers will run the system for a long time after we're gone.
Failure modes before polish
Anything that touches money or identity gets failure-mode work before it gets polish.
Ownership, with an exit
We hand over code the institution owns outright, with a supported path to migrate off.
The founding team.
Oghenetejiri Jesse
Joseph BIZIMUNGU Rukundo
The record, plainly stated.
Write to hello@afrikabal.com.
Have a system in mind?
Tell us the constraint you are designing around. We will tell you what we would build and what we would not.