If you're ordering a pizza to your home, if you're getting a package delivered from something you've bought online, if you want to get a taxi to somewhere ; we want you to be able to put in a three-word address just as if you were putting in something else, but knowing that it's far more accurate and far easier, and just works wherever you are in the world.

Chris Sheldrick

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We're in an app called' Rio Go' which is one of the official app to actually get people around Rio so they can plan their transport routes. And you can type your three word address straight into that and it'll get you there.

Chris Sheldrick

Addressing around the world actually doesn't work very well. The U.N. says that three-quarters of countries have an inadequate system. And you consider that a lot of nations in Africa and Brazil,( in) huge parts of the cities they just never made an address. And people live with no way of describing where they live.

Chris Sheldrick