What3Words: Addressing the Problem

What3Words, a geocoding system, created unique pictorial envelopes as part of an addressing system to help deliver mail in developing countries.

Campaign background

Did you know that 75% of the population has no reliable system of addressing?

What3Words wanted to start ground-breaking conversations about putting these addressing infrastructures into place, without it costing millions.

Strategy

Around four billion people are invisible with no reliable way of receiving important mail. A barrier to growth, What3words aimed to target this lack of proper addressing system across developing nations.

Putting an addressing infrastructure in place normally costs millions and can takes years to accomplish. OgilvyOne Worldwide's solution had to introduce a system quickly and simply.

Each market represented a huge untapped potential for postal...

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