The national adoption of a new addressing
technology will resolve challenges faced in last mile delivery of different
services, Managing Director of GridCodes Technology, Squadron Leader Adefola
Amoo (retd), has said.
In a statement made available in Abuja on Friday,
Amoo said the new software, known as gridcodes, that locate any place on earth
with the aid of Geographic Positioning System patented by his company would
transform the logistics and delivery industry when adopted by the country.
According to him, the Ministry of Science and
Technology has already established an inter-ministerial committee that is
considering the adoption of the technology on national scale.
He said with the new technology, organisations
such as banks would also easily resolve the challenges inherent in proper
identification and location of customers in an analogue environment.
Amoo said, “When adopted, Gridcodes will
facilitate revolutionary expansion of many verticals in commerce, regulation
and governance.
“It will support last mile delivery,
logistics, transportation as well as all businesses that revolve around being
able to navigate reliably to where people are. In governance, for example, the
challenges around achieving full compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s
KYC policy will be drastically reduced.”
He added, “This is about the first time in
Nigeria’s history that the work of an indigenous inventor is being considered
for national adoption. Without a doubt, this is an opportunity to showcase how
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order Five can decisively solve a
critical geo-infrastructural problem that has been facing the country for
years.
“Gridcodes will solve this problem as quickly as
the adoption is declared by the Federal Government and at a fraction of the
cost and time it took advanced economies to do the same thing. This is the kind
of near instantaneous, leap-frog solutions that promoting indigenous innovation
can achieve.”
According to him, the digital addressing technology
leverages GIS to provide citizens an address that makes it extremely easy to
navigate to homes, offices, social gatherings, places of entertainment and
trade even if such places have no physical addresses.
He explained that Gridcodes digital addressing
technology “is delivered to the end user via a mobile app and an associated
website.”
A former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya
Onu, had at the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee said that
Nigeria could effectively improve governance, boost commerce, fight crime and
better manage intelligence through the adoption of Gridcodes.
