ODS (Courier and motorbike ride hailing)

1) Unemployment – a) An estimate of 1,000,000 people doing blue collar jobs have lost their livelihoods.b) The white collar sector has seen  not less than 300,000 people across Ghana loosing their jobs, Dr.Baah. c)Providing not less than 100,000  low earned average Ghanaian access to a soft and flexible motorbikes facility.

2) Web and Mobile app motorbike ride-hailing platform with access reach of 100million users to help tackle  mobility of goods and people for Ghanaian  where movement, delivery and distribution of goods and products (Such as medicines and essential items) has become a major challenge within our communities.

3) Social Interventions

1)Give employment opportunity to not less than 1,000,000 people who's jobs were negatively affected by covid19

2)Distribution of essential goods (medicines) to various communities

3)Means of transportation to teachers, nurses/doctors within the rural communities and them making additional revenue as well.

•Unemployment caused by covid19.

•Poverty: alleviation of poverty, Zero hunger, Decent work and Economic growth (SDGs)

•Informal courier industry: formalizing the courier industry and digitizing the economy using our e hailing platform

•Mobility and congestion challenges in Ghana

•Our focus  is to develop a cutting edge and affordable E-hailing solutions for the Ghana market to regulate the motor bike service, i.e. courier and mobility that will more importantly impact essential workers in the rural areas. We pride ourselves in having developed  motorbike ride hailing. Courier services and package delivery what we believe as Ghana simplified mobility.

Technology

•The mobility platform will be built using a micro service based architecture to ensure ease  scalability. The platform will be hosted on any of these cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, HiCloud amongst others). The payment

•Payment gateway will be a Ghana local service for FICA compliance.

•Mapping gateway and all third party licenses.

Low earning  Ghanaian (15-50 years: 50% of the Ghanaian population (male 4,663,234 /female 4,950,888)

Solution providers – providing employment to make livelihood and support their family. The courier service provides us with many job opportunities that make up the ecosystem.

Solution consumption – end users get access to affordable ride. 

•Safety

Shortlisting, training and verifying motor bike riders via the app. The app will also be able to record riders speed, acceleration,  locations and gyroscope information. The data will be analyzed on a weekly basis and used to give riders a score. They must score at least 8 to keep working with the app.

•Pricing

Relatively cheaper for the average Ghanaian. 

•Google Maps, Routes and Places

It bring the real world to users with street view imagery. Help courier riders  find the best way to their delivery point with real-time traffic and real places.

•USSD

Providing a two-way communication using  Long and Short code for user with no technological know how to request, accept and make payments.

•GPS tracking system

 GPS tracking system also known as a real-time system as this method automatically sends the information on the GPS system to a central tracking portal or system in real-time as it happens

•Using Uber as a case study in Ghana – The  app provides you with features similar to the Uber app which is widely accepted and used by most for safety and convenience. 40% of the Ghanaian youth population between 18-35 now prefer uber to other means of transport.

•The uber app provides  riders with details of their driver as soon as rider accepts a trip.

•Uber reach 4m people with over 140,000 active drivers

•Uber’s GPS feature allows trip tracking by viewing the route on the map in the app.

•All drivers undergo screening process and are required to submit  a valid Ghana class b license, a police clearance certificate form.

•Trend and projections – E commerce has increased in Ghana within the year by 15% and will further go up based on all indicators, i.e. increment in online purchase and resurgence of virtual offices

•Lifestyle pattern – preference for speed over traffic prone modules. Motor bikes become a better option as people try to avoid mass transport.

How

Teaming up with others Stakeholders to give bikers access to flexible payment terms which will yield revenue top-up and easy mobility, we want to signed up as many people as possible to ease unemployment issues that has arising from Covid 19.

Why

The safety nature of the solution and the security it provides across its operation will help reduce mortality rate and give an opportunity to anyone looking for alternatives which is Affordable to existing courier services.

One year

Directly 100,000 courier riders with over 3 million users 

Five years

500,000 courier riders with over 15 million users

One year goals

•To solve unemployment among the youth

•Alleviate poverty leading to zero hunger

•Formalize the courier industry

Next five years

•Curb many social vices by providing decent work

•Reduce congestion at the market place

•Impact the economy through our digitize platforms

Cultural perceptions: 71% of bikers in Ghana are not properly licensed and as a result 35% die due to negligence. Due to this people refrain from using motor bikes.

Funding

With a total cost budget of  $170,458,544.00, without stakeholders support, funding becomes a major barrier. 

Non dedicated routes for motor bikes

Campaigns

Team up with stakeholders such as the DVLA and PCSRC in Ghana to run a national campaigns on the solution outlining its benefits.

•Share a comprehensive proposal with Financial institution, who are one of the stakeholders we looking at to give a soft and flexible motorbikes facility for commercial purposes.

•Provide riders and passengers with protective gears.

5 full time staff

The team is made up of individuals with  Soft skills such as (customer service, communication, organizational skills) and leadership skills ( like people and team management). Members of the team has at least 2 years experience in their job filed.

Seek to raise investment capital or sustained donations and grants