An open-source delivery coordination engine for Ghana and beyond.
# order-gh
An open-source delivery coordination engine for Ghana and beyond.
# Order.GH 🚚🇬🇭 – An Open Source Delivery Coordination Engine for Africa
Order.GH is an open-source delivery platform built for the realities of Ghana and the wider African continent. It helps users coordinate the delivery of goods, legal documents, medical supplies, and farm produce through a decentralized, privacy-focused app.
We aim to turn *delivery chaos* into *organized opportunity* — starting at the grassroots level.
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## 🔍 Problem We're Solving
Delivery in Ghana is frustrating.
- You waste hours in traffic to pick up one document.
- Smallholder farmers lose income because they can’t get produce to buyers in time.
- Riders struggle to get consistent income.
- No protection for users against fraud or abuse during delivery exchanges.
Order.GH exists to **connect people to people** — safely, efficiently, and locally.
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## 💡 Core Features
- 🛵 **Request-Based Delivery**: Create a delivery request for a product, document, or produce. Nearby riders can accept it.
- ⏳ **Standard or Express Options**: Wait for a standard time or pay extra for faster delivery.
- 📜 **Legal Document Logistics**: Deliver case files, forms, and notarized docs without the sender and rider ever meeting in person.
- 🥬 **Farm-to-Home Fresh Produce**: Coordinate neighborhood food drops with farmers and local riders.
- 🔐 **Blockchain Privacy Layer**: Your identity and location are protected using decentralized identity protocols.
- ⚖️ **Smart Escrow & Verification**: Payments are released only after delivery confirmation via smart contracts.
- 📱 **Built for Mobile First**: Lightweight design, built with low-bandwidth and GPS-inconsistent regions in mind.
- ⚙️ **Drone & IoT Ready (Future)**: Modular APIs that allow drone pickups and robotic delivery.
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## 🧱 How It Works
1. A sender creates a delivery request in the app.
2. A rider with a matching route accepts the order.
3. Both parties communicate anon …