SnooCode the application that generates codes that serve as addresses
Sesinam Dagadu a Ghanian entrepreneur, has created a mobile application, SnooCode, that uses a computer algorithm to generate a unique code – for any location – which then serves as an address.
SnooCode generates a unique code for each location thanks to the system of location of smartphones, to replace the addresses, almost nonexistent. Once the app loaded, no need of Internet or phone network to generate a code, just a phone equipped with a GPS chip. Already used by 15,000 Ghanaians and by ambulances in the capital, the SnooCode application could spread to the entire continent.
It all started when Sesinam returned to work in Ghana. He is hired at Ecobank and discovers just how much the lack of formal addresses is a problem. Indeed in Ghana, as everywhere in Africa, the addresses with postal code, street name and numbers remain a domain with a gap.
On his return to England, he began to study the project. He first introduced a simplified version of its application, for all the ambulances of the Greater Accra and the Ashanti region, financed thanks to the Vodafone Foundation. Today, there are already 15,000 downloads in Ghana.
WHO already expects to exploit SnooCode for a variety of activities, such as combating the spread of an epidemic. Sesinam Dagadu is already imagining other developments: drones, restaurants, delivery systems and even certifications. After Africa, the next continent on the list would be Asia. He is now “ready to raise funds” and hopes to have a first round by the end of 2017.
Source: Le Monde
