Detailed Plan

First off it should be noted that in Cameroon the concept of mail as some people in the Western world may take for granted is virtually nonexistent. It is almost impossible to receive packages via courier directly to your home or office, and therefore the people of Cameroon have come to rely on other methods for sending and receiving parcels.

The main solution that people use for sending packages within Cameroon is via inter-city buses. In Cameroon, the majority of inter-city transportation companies have some form of parcel delivery service in conjunction with transporting people. The agencies of these companies double as drop-off and pick-up locations for packages where people come to carry out the shipping and collection operations.

However, home delivery is very poorly developed and does not take advantage of the local infrastructure. In big cities such as Douala and Yaounde picking up or dropping off your package may look like this:

1. Leave the house to get to the travel agency. Usually this involves taking another form of public transportation to do so such as a taxi or moto-taxi– it is uncommon among people using these services to have personal vehicles.
2. Arrive at the agency and wait in line to pick up your package
3. Repeat step 1 but now returning home.

Leaving the house to go to the agency may involve several inconveniences that we wish to resolve.

1. Time wasted: using valuable time both on the road (potentially a very serious factor due to traffic) and also waiting at the agency in line and then waiting for your package to be identified
2. Money wasted: extra expenditure (paying for transportation to and from agency) often at higher cost during high traffic times
3. Personal safety risk: it can be dangerous to be travelling on the road (increased risk when holding encumbering items on a moto-taxi)

We have outlined above how, on a personal level, this system is deeply flawed, but it is easily extrapolated how this system does not work on both a business point of view and also considering how harmful these trips to and from agencies impact our environment. We seek to optimize this whole system in such a way that we could take the multiple packages from point A to point B delivered by one entity instead of multiple people and multiple trips to and from these travel agencies.

Our solution:

Our main objective is to build a decentralized delivery system to manage home delivery and collections that relies on already existing local transport. Specifically we will:

1. Build a decentralized ID system for governance and delivery reputation management
2. Develop package organization model based on destination and delivery routes, aggregating data in on optimal way and tokenizing the CO2 emissions offset by combining trips
3. Create notification system for delivery personnel
4. Create payment interface that leverages a native token

***More details coming soon!!!