Cengkuru Michael
Visual essays.
Not posts. Each one is a scene you operate: a model to run, a simulation to break, a query that fails in your hands. On infrastructure transparency, procurement disclosure, and accountability systems that survive real constraints.
Chain of public trust
When a Project Becomes Public
A road is built in the open, but its truth is filed where only insiders can read it. Follow one red survey line as it turns a project into something followable, readable, trusted, measured, and acted on. The CoST toolkit — IDS, OC4IDS, assurance, ITI, social accountability — as one chain, not five products. Ends on a live query any citizen can re-run: 28.5% single-bid on Uganda’s GPP.
Jun 2026Enter →
Operable data model
The Name on the Certificate Is Not the Owner
Follow one bright line from a company certificate down to a human being and learn the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard by operating it: entity, person and relationship statements; claims, not truth; a dated, testable, write-only record. The companion essay shows what to do with it.
Jun 2026Enter →
Documentary photo essay
After the Award
After award, the record thins but the risk grows. Follow one bright data line through Uganda's upgraded GPP, then run a real query: 28.5% of competitive tenders attract only one bidder. Watch the data do accountability work.
Jun 2026Enter →
Investigative instrument
The Black Light for Public Money
A $50M contract names a company. Join procurement to ownership data and the same record names a person. Diverse on paper, one owner underneath.
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Living social atlas
Once a Ngonian
Drag a 3D chamber of 189 alumni; step into six rooms of conversation; watch a school network become adult infrastructure.
Jun 2026Enter →
Visual essay
The Second Infrastructure
A Ugandan power bill is the visible end of an invisible chain. Trace it back through the Bujagali PPP and you find the real infrastructure: a promise-machine of payments, guarantees, and risk that outlives the dam by decades.
Jun 16, 2026Enter →
Scrollytelling
Three validations, or you have shipped a draft
Kampala, 143 officers, the question that broke a year-old assumption.
May 8, 2026Enter →
Simulation
Why Disclosure Portals Die (And How to Build Ones That Don't)
Make five architecture calls; watch a portal live or die across three years.
Mar 31, 2026Enter →