Bees Delivery DAO

Build a decentralized delivery system that leverages moto-taxis, and inter-city buses to create a more efficient system for all stakeholders

Wada Cameroon Hub: 3 senior software architects and developers

Impact:

How does this proposal fit into this challenge?

Our proposal includes all the fundamental building blocks of a DAO: A DID solution for signing up both customers and delivery personnel. A reputation base system for allowing new delivery personnel to join the network. A multipurpose governance system whose main function is to allow community decision making for the on-boarding process of delivery personnel. A CO2 credit incentive mechanism based on points gained when combining delivery services. Finally a native token for transactions in the ecosystem.

How will this campaign add value to our ecosystem?

This proposal has great potential given the fact that it will potentially be bringing a down to earth, cutting edge, yet easy to use solution to hundreds of moto-taxi users and those seeking delivery services. This will translate into a considerable amount of daily micro-payments activities on the Cardano platform as well as a flock of DIDs. Lastly, this solution will definitely be portable to other African countries given the similarity in the contexts.

Outlook and future challenges?

Our main mission is to optimally connect anybody with a means of transportation from point A to point B to those seeking transportation services for their packages. We intend to replicate this in other countries in Africa once this is fully functional in Cameroon. 

Feasibility:

Reference (Past Successes):

Wada has already established active hubs in: Ivory Coast (French), Ghana (English), Nigeria (English), Cameroon (French & English) and Democratic Republic of Congo (French). Through our Cameroon hub we are launching a Haskell and Plutus training initiative that will be leading project based learning throughout our hubs. This project is an example of one of the projects we wish to work through as a learning journey for our aspiring devs.

See related proposal for Scale-UP Cardano Community Hubs: Spread Plutus through Africa https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Spread-Plutus-through-Africa/381332-48088

Context:

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.

• 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
• Money wasted: extra expenditure (paying for transportation to and from agency) often at higher cost during high traffic times
• 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 from an environmental standpoint. 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/ Road map:

Our main objective is to build a decentralized delivery system, that will manage home delivery and pickups, that relies on already existing local transportation. The DAO will allow anyone with a moving medium (moto-taxi, taxi ..etc) to join our delivery personnel network after they successfully pass our reputation algorithm. They will have a chance to pick up items for delivery based on optimizing the path from where suits them most for both pickups and deliveries. Customers will have the possibility to redirect notifications they get from travel agencies for their package status updates to our system. The latest will be assigned to the closest moto-taxi in the pick up area. (This will be done through a fair and equitable algorithm). An algorithm will also determine the cost and once this is validated by both parties, the moto-taxi will pick up and deliver the package. Another use case for this system will be for grocery delivery. Customers will be able to shop with third party businesses (grocery store, supermarket center ..etc) and notify our system for delivery. Again a moto-taxi man will be connected and a contract will be secured between the delivery personnel and the customer and then the goods will be delivered.

In a specific way, the following subsystem will make up the solution.

1. Build a decentralized ID system the leveraging Atala prism Software Development Kit (SDK). This will be the foundational building block for the governance and reputation management modules
2. Develop a package organization and delivery model based on destination and delivery routes, making sure to aggregate and combine data with similar destination / pickup points
3. Tokenize the CO2 emissions offset that results from aggregating and combining trips with same destinations and pickup points
4. Create notification system and an interface for stakeholders: For delivery personnel it will be a proximity based notification and for customers delivery status updates
5. Work with local microfinance institution to model an exchange mechanism that will allow transaction from (to) physical local currencies as needed
6. Create a digital native token pegged to the value of the local currency for micro-payment within the network.
7. Create a mobile app with payment interface including a QR code for managing transactions within our DAO network 

Core Team & Roles:

Wada Cameroon Hub

• Manfo: Cameroon Team Co-Lead, Senior software architect & developer, 12+ year of experience programming, 3+ years in functional programming paradigm (F#, Haskell, Elm), Multilingual (French, English, Italian, Ngiembo)
• Nkalla: Senior software architect & developer, 12+ year of experience programming, 3+ years in functional programming paradigm (Haskell), Mathematics teacher (Education Systems Engineering), Multilingual (French, Italian, English, Mbo)
• Arcel: Senior Software developer in Closure 7 + years experience, Project manager, Multilingual (French, English)
• Megan: Cameroon Team Co-Lead, Central Africa Coordination Lead, Wada core team member (Education and Event Lead), Math & Physics teacher, bilingual (French & English)

Wada Network

• Wada Devs: This will be one of the projects which we will lead through the Cameroon hub but also leverage our network of Wada Devs that we will be training in Plutus and Haskell to support the development of this project and also make a solution that can be applied to other countries within our network.
• Wada Marketing team

Budget: 12 months

• Marketing & Advertisement: $3 000
• Logistics: $2 000
• Team motivations (5 Developers $250 per month x 12 months): $15 000
• Prototype Motorcycle: $3 000
• Misc. other motivations: $1 000

Auditability:

What success looks like:

• 3 months post funding - Wada dev team selected to work/train on this project, Roadmap finalized, partnerships with agencies and one grocery store secured
• 6 months post funding - specification for DAO system fully elaborated and designed and ready to implement
• 12 months post funding- successful lanch of MVP DAO, allowing users to test the system. 100s of users signing up and engaging in this DAO. 

Key Metrics:

• Number of players in the DAO
• Number of people seeking delivery services / month
• Number of moto-taximen joining our Dao / month
• The number of daily micro-payment happening on our platform / month

Risk Management:

The main risk here is that the delivery personnel might not be interested in this model at first. Customers might be reluctant to give their packages to unknown delivery personnel. Another risk seems to be the harm that dishonest personnel might bring by running away with valuable packages. To mitigate these risks, the reputation system which will be point based, will make sure to limit most of these issues by only allowing new users to come into the system through invites from old users with a solid reputation that will put a portion of their own reputation points at stake. Government ID will also be registered for those trying to sign up as delivery personnel. DITC (Disruptive IT Cameroon) will be launching the platform with its own flock of 3 motorcycles to serve as an example.