Apply to the CDR programme

Scenario

You are asked to make a CDR solution operational within an existing African logistics corridor where: power availability is intermittent and not guaranteed; freight flows are inconsistent and largely informal; cross-border coordination introduces delays and significant uncertainty.

Your response must address all five points:

1. 1Entry point — Where exactly would you intervene first (node, actor, process)? Why that point over others?
2. 2Operational design — What would physically move, where, and how? Which existing infrastructure or actors would you rely on?
3. 3Experience anchor — Name two constraints you have personally dealt with in similar contexts. Explain how that shapes your approach here.
4. 4Trade-offs — What are you deliberately NOT optimising for in the first year, and why?
5. 5Failure risk — Where is this most likely to fail in practice, and what early signal would tell you it is going wrong?

Strict limit: 300 words maximum.