Daisymail

Iyaji Logica

Daisymail

A human-powered delivery protocol that transforms everyday routes into reliable, trust-based logistics for underserved communities.

Manchester, UK

GBR

For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models

Youth unemployment in Nigeria sits at over 50%, affecting more than 33 million people. It is the most extreme case on the continent, but reflective of a wider West African crisis where millions of young people are idle, underemployed, or locked out of formal work. Despite this, most remain physically mobile—commuting, visiting, trading, or helping out—without that movement ever being compensated. Daisymail turns this everyday travel into work. It pairs parcels with people already in motion, routing items through a series of trusted, short-range handoffs. The model borrows from the logic of the internet—packet-switching—but replaces bandwidth with bus rides, sidewalks, and kinship. This creates a new kind of distributed delivery backbone for places where logistics is broken, trust is low, and infrastructure is patchy or nonexistent. The result? A dignified, flexible, and ultra-low-barrier form of employment rooted in the rhythms of daily life. No bosses. No algorithms pushing riders to the brink. Just everyday people earning small payments as they go back and forth along routes they already travel.

There are no vans, no warehouses or distribution depots—just phones, mathematics, and movement. The system uses dynamic routing, machine learning, and social trust scores (inspired by game theory) to compute efficient handoffs, track reliability, and minimise loss. Service users are both senders and receivers of parcels, earning micro-payments by turning daily travel into work. Apps can run on this backbone to enable community lending, local exchanges, and ultra-cheap parcel movement in places traditional courier systems fail. Daisymail uses lightweight, accessible technologies that match the realities of its users. Its core interface is USSD, allowing anyone with a basic feature phone to list, receive, or forward parcels using simple code-based menus—no smartphones, apps, or data plans required. In more connected areas, Telegram is used for broader coordination, announcements, and community tracking. Routing is based on multi-hop delivery logic, inspired by packet-switching principles from internet design: parcels move via short, trusted handoffs which are dynamically routed rather than end-to-end transport. The system incorporates a trust-scoring model derived from Wang’s game theory framework, rating participants based on timeliness and care.

Daisymail serves people who are routinely excluded from formal work, infrastructure, and recognition—especially young, underemployed Africans living in informal settlements, peri-urban areas, or regions underserved by delivery networks. It also serves low-income communities where movement is constant, but logistics is broken. By pairing parcels with people already in motion—walking, commuting, visiting relatives—Daisymail turns ordinary routines into paid, purposeful labour. Participants earn income for short-range deliveries without needing a vehicle, a smartphone, or an app. This creates a dignified, low-barrier form of employment that fits inside existing life patterns. For borrowers and senders, Daisymail provides affordable, trusted movement of goods—especially in areas where courier services are unreliable or unavailable. It also reinforces social cohesion by routing exchanges through trusted links, not strangers. In essence, Daisymail transforms people into infrastructure—not to exploit them, but to honour their rhythms. It allows movement to matter. It lets value circulate where capital won’t.