In Dar es Salaam,many people without formal addresses are denied access to services and a legal identity. But technology is set to change thatJohan Knols is used to getting strange directions as he travels around rural Tanzania. “generally, when I’m trying to find someone’s house, or they’ll guide me by saying,‘after the fourth tree, down the path to the left’ or something like that, and ” says Knols,a field operations manager at In2Care, an NGO working to eradicate malaria by distributing mosquito traps in the east African country.“When I started going to rural areas, and I could see some houses had a weird number on them – not a house number – but I could see that some houses had markings on them from previous research that had been done. So everybody is battling with the same problem,” says Knols.
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Source: theguardian.com