Global situational-awareness dashboards ingest hundreds of live feeds and turn them into an actionable picture — but they score the world's Tier-1 countries, and East Africa isn't on that list. The signals that matter here (drought onset, basin flooding, cholera clusters, rift-zone quakes) are in the same public feeds; nothing was turning them into events a regional coordination system could act on.
coord-ingest is that missing rail: an MIT-licensed adapter that converts open, key-free world-signal feeds into africa-coord-bus coordination events, filtered to East Africa, so the bus can cascade them to the right domains (insurance, crop advisory, water testing, cross-border alerts).
It ingests and normalizes; the bus routes. Clean separation, composable rails.
- Adapters for public sources — Open-Meteo rainfall (drought/flood signals), USGS earthquakes, GDACS disaster alerts, HDX humanitarian datasets (OCHA, key-free CKAN), Kobo/ODK field reports (bottom-up ground truth), Google Flood Hub riverine forecasts — each mapping raw records to typed
CoordinationEvents. Add a feed by adding an adapter. - East-Africa filter — a signal becomes an event only if it lands in the regional bounding box or names a regional country. Global noise is dropped at ingest.
- Offline-capable — ships with a
SampleAdapterover bundled fixtures, so the full pipeline (and its tests) run with no network and no API keys. - Feeds the bus, doesn't replace it — routing, cascading, and cross-border logic stay in
africa-coord-bus.
pip install coord-ingestfrom coord_ingest import IngestPipeline, SampleAdapter
# Offline demo — no keys, no network
summary = IngestPipeline([SampleAdapter()]).run()
print(summary["collected"], "East Africa events") # global noise already dropped
print(summary["by_domain"]) # {'water': 3, 'health': 1, 'transport': 1}
# With live feeds + the bus:
# from coord_ingest import OpenMeteoAdapter, USGSQuakeAdapter, GDACSAdapter
# from africa_coord_bus import EventBus
# IngestPipeline([USGSQuakeAdapter(), GDACSAdapter()]).run(bus=EventBus(...))The global open-source dashboards that inspired this are AGPL applications. This is deliberately the opposite: a small MIT library that produces standard bus events any tool can consume — including a dashboard, if someone wants to build one. Rails, not another train.
MIT. New feed adapters welcome via GitHub Issues (public, key-free sources, East-Africa relevant). Full policy: docs/architecture/IP_POLICY.md. Security: SECURITY.md.
The Flood Hub adapter exists because a flood forecast is only worth what it triggers. Google's models cover 40 African countries with riverine forecasts up to 7 days ahead (CC BY 4.0, free), and forecast points now exist in Northern Kenya where there were none. IRC and GiveDirectly used those forecasts to move cash to households 5-7 days before flood peaks in Nigeria — the money arrived while it could still be spent on preparation rather than recovery.
That is a cascade, not a dashboard: a verified gauge crossing a danger threshold
is a water-domain signal whose value is downstream — finance (anticipatory
transfer), health (facility pre-positioning), transport (route closure).
coord-ingest emits the signal; africa-coord-bus routes it.
from coord_ingest import FloodHubAdapter, IngestPipeline
events = IngestPipeline([FloodHubAdapter()]).collect() # needs FLOODHUB_API_KEYAccess: the Flood Forecasting API is waitlisted — approval plus a Google Cloud Project ID, currently non-commercial use only. Without a key the adapter returns nothing and the pipeline still runs on its other feeds. Unverified gauges are excluded by default: an unverified gauge triggering a cash transfer is a worse failure than a missed alert.