West African NGO Network

Name

West African NGO Network

Legal name

West African NGO Network

Website

https://wangonet.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

ICT for Development (ICT4D) Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Political Organizations (813940)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Development & ICT4D / GovTech Technical Assistance (BPADAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Inclusion & Civic Tech (Connectivity, GovTech for Social Good) (BPAGALAK), Democracy, Human Rights & Governance Assistance (BPADABAG), Public Communications, Transparency & Open Government (BPAIAAAH)

Keywords

• ICT for development
• Civic engagement platforms
• Governance technology services
• Anti-corruption monitoring
• Capacity building training

Headquarters

HQ city

Lagos

HQ country

Nigeria

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Project-based Grants and Funding: Funded through grants and project funding from international development donors and foundations for specific programs in good governance, anti-corruption, elections, and environmental monitoring
2. Training Services: Capacity building and training services in digital strategies, FOSS, and basic to advanced computer training

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

WANGONeT delivers ICT for Development (ICT4D) services to civil society organizations, government parastatals, and multilateral organizations, organized into four pillars: Research (qualitative and quantitative), New Media (live-streaming, social media), Technical Development (mobile, web, desktop, network solutions), and Training (digital strategies and FOSS). On top of these services it builds and operates standalone civic-tech platforms for anti-corruption monitoring, electoral integrity, voter engagement, and environmental reporting.

Product overview

WANGONeT is a knowledge-based organization providing ICT4D services through a portfolio of standalone technology products and project-based offerings. Services include New Media (live-streaming, social media marketing), Technical Development (mobile/web/desktop applications, network solutions), Research (qualitative/quantitative research for CSOs and government), and Training (digital strategies, FOSS). The product portfolio includes: Anti-Corruption Internet Database (ACID) - a corruption reporting and monitoring portal; 9jaVoter - voter engagement platform; Electoral Monitoring platform for IFES; Nigeria Governance platform; OilSpillWitness - environmental monitoring; Nigeria Elections information portal; Local Government Budget Tracking Tool; WANGONeT-CISCO Academy training program; The State of the State violence documentation site; How Not To Rig an Election research project; and Numbers Game corruption calculator. These are largely independent project-based tools rather than a unified platform architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Research Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Contributed to Nigerian institutions delivering improved electoral performance in 2011 through How Not to Rig an Election project
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IFES (International Foundation for Electoral Systems)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational foundation working on electoral systems. Partnered on Electoral Monitoring project to remotely receive and record cases of violence or peace events during Nigerian Elections.
• IDASAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSouth African democracy support organization. Partnered on Local Government Budget and Expenditure Tracking Tool project.
• NetHopeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConsortium of 38 leading international humanitarian organizations. WANGONeT participates in NetHope Cloud Services Portal for ICT collaboration among CSOs.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ushahidi: Kenya-headquartered civic-tech platform (originally built for election monitoring and incident mapping) that produces reusable open-source tools for citizens to document violence and governance issues — directly analogous to WANGONeT's Electoral Monitoring and State-of-the-State violence-mapping tools.
• Connected Development (CODE): Nigerian accountability NGO that runs community-based follow-up and transparency programmes (e.g. #FollowTheMoney), serving CSOs and citizens on governance issues paralleling WANGONeT's anti-corruption work.
• BudgIT Foundation: Nigeria-based civic-tech NGO that uses data-driven tools to track public budgets and expenditure, directly overlapping WANGONeT's Nigeria Governance and Local Government Budget and Expenditure Tracking Tool offerings.
• Code for Africa: Pan-African civic-tech and investigative-data network running similar ICT4D programmes across multiple countries, including budget-monitoring, elections, and accountability tools directly comparable to WANGONeT's ACID and electoral platforms.
• OrderPaper Nigeria: Nigeria-focused civic-tech organisation that tracks legislative activity and publishes parliamentary data, comparable to WANGONeT's governance and budget-tracking tools targeting Nigerian public institutions.
• Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria: Nigerian civic-engagement and election-integrity NGO running youth participation programmes similar to WANGONeT's 9jaVoter project, serving overlapping donor and CSO audiences.

Broad incumbents

• Transparency International: Global anti-corruption organisation whose work intersects with WANGONeT's ACID 2.0 corruption-reporting platform, though operating at vastly larger scale as a broad anti-corruption convening and advocacy body rather than as an in-country ICT4D implementer.
• Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) Nigeria: Larger Nigerian innovation and technology hub invested in civic-tech startups; named ally of WANGONeT in its own partner ecosystem but serves a broader mandate across many sectors beyond NGO ICT4D.

Others

• NetHope: Consortium of 38 international humanitarian organisations providing shared technology services to NGOs; WANGONeT is a member via its Cloud Services Portal, making NetHope an infrastructure and ecosystem counterpart rather than a direct competitor.

Regional players

• Praekelt Foundation: South African non-profit building mobile and digital platforms for social impact and public health, with substantial African operations — comparable in ICT-for-development mission but focused on different geographies and themes than WANGONeT's West Africa governance focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/wangonet_ng
• Facebookfacebook.com/WANGONeT
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wangonet

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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