Problem

In many rural communities participating in the FMARD NAGS-AP farmers registration program, thousands of farmers are unable to complete their enrollment because they lack valid or readable identity documents such as NIN, BVN-linked data, proof of address, or utility bills. This gap prevents eligible farmers from opening accounts with the Bank of Agriculture and ultimately blocks their access to government interventions, grants, and essential financial services, reinforcing poverty, delaying development initiatives, wasting valuable time, and excluding already vulnerable populations from opportunities meant to support them. A major challenge is the over-reliance on fragile paper documents in environments where community trust systems—such as village heads, youth leaders, and local associations—are actually stronger and more reliable than formal paperwork. Rural communities face systemic barriers: paper NIN slips tear, fade, or get lost with utility bills unavailable and many lacking complete identity records; inconsistent documentation leads to rejection by government enrollment systems, agricultural programs, banks, fintech onboarding, and NGO initiatives; field agents spend hours verifying unclear documents, requesting reprints, and reprocessing failed registrations; communities already know their people but there is no digital system to translate trusted local knowledge into verifiable identity; and poor infrastructure makes many digital identity solutions unusable in rural settings.

MVP

Scope

YoTouch introduces a community-powered digital identity system designed for low-tech, low-documentation environments featuring:

• Digitizes Community Trust into Verified Digital Identity: Community leaders (village heads, religious leaders, cooperative leaders) issue secure digital attestations confirming identity, address, and community membership, replacing handwritten letters and eliminating errors or forgery
• Eliminates Dependence on Fragile Paper Documents: Identity profiles stored digitally, permanently accessible even if physical documents are lost or damaged
• Supports People With Incomplete or Missing Documents: Provides verified digital identity entry point for people with BVN but no NIN, NIN but no slip, no address document, or no formal paper trail, dramatically increasing inclusion
• Reduces Registration Time & Field Agent Workload: Agent captures identity → Community leader validates digitally → Secure profile generated → Institutions verify instantly, removing repeated checks and long queues
• Creates Permanent Durable Identity Layer: Residents gain lifelong digital identity supporting multiple programs without re-verification
• Works in Low-Tech & Low-Infrastructure Environments: Built for rural realities with offline support and later syncing, works on low-end phones, supports QR codes and simple authentication, easy for users with low digital literacy

Cardano Integration

YoTouch leverages blockchain technology to transform trusted community attestations into secure digital identities, enabling document-free verification so farmers can access interventions quickly, reliably, and with dignity. The platform logs every attestation, each leader’s verification, and all field agent activities on-chain, reducing fraud and identity errors while enhancing transparency and accountability. This expands access to social protection by validating identity for those excluded from formal systems, reduces administrative burden as institutions verify users instantly instead of reviewing multiple fragile documents, strengthens community-based verification systems which WHO and global development bodies recognize as essential for rural inclusion, enhances accountability in public programs through digitized attestation, and builds scalable identity infrastructure for the future—a foundation communities can use even before full national ID integration. YoTouch creates a Nigeria where no citizen is excluded because paper documents are missing or damaged, community trust is finally recognized in digital and financial systems, farmers, women, youth, and low-income residents access services without barriers, banks and government agencies verify users instantly, reliably, and cheaply, and rural identity becomes secure, durable, and nationally recognized.

🎥 Pitch

🎥 Demo

🔗 Links

• Deployment: Launch App 
• GitHub: View Code