In a statement made available to our correspondent 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.
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. Interserver coupon
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