The Foundation

A Country That Couldn't Find Itself

The DRC is the second-largest country in Africa, home to over 100 million people. Yet the vast majority of its addresses are informal, inconsistent, or entirely absent. Without a standardized address system, emergency services cannot find you, commerce cannot reach you, and government cannot serve you.

Palm Leaf Partners' National Address Mapping program changes this. It is the foundational layer on which every other infrastructure project is built — not merely a database, but the operating system of a modern nation.

And critically: the call center emergency dispatch system depends entirely on this map. When a citizen dials for help, the dispatcher needs a precise, verified location. That precision is what this project delivers.

Up to 0

Address Target (indicative)

95%

Accuracy Goal

Post Office Hubs

Year Partnership

"Contemplated under a Memorandum of Understanding with SCPT — the DRC's national postal authority — and framed by DRC PPP Law 20/018 (2020). Final scope, volume and accuracy targets are subject to a Scope Validation Survey and the Definitive Agreement."

01 We start in orbit.

Satellite imagery and LiDAR drones give us the canvas.

Before a single field collector steps out of a vehicle, we have already seen the country from above. High-resolution satellite imagery and LiDAR drone surveys map every structure, road, and landmark across all 26 provinces — giving our teams a verified canvas to work from. Nothing is assumed. Everything is confirmed.

"We see the whole country before we touch a single door. That's how you build something that lasts."

Zola · Palm Leaf Partners

Field collector at a doorstep in the DRC

02 We finish at the front door.

Three thousand field collectors. Every address. Validated in person.

Field teams — trained, equipped, and locally hired — visit every structure. They capture precise GPS coordinates, photograph the location, assign a standardized address code, and affix a QR-coded placard at the door. Every address is validated twice: once in the field, once in the national registry. No shortcuts. No estimates.

Up to 100 modernized SCPT post office hubs serve as the physical registration points — every one connected by Starlink, every one staffed to serve citizens in their own language.

"Every address is a person. Every person deserves to be found — by their family, by their doctor, by emergency services."

Zola · Palm Leaf Partners

03 And the country gets a new map.

A bilingual analytics dashboard. Postal facilities going live. A public address-verification API.

When the field work is done, the DRC has something it has never had before: a complete, verified, publicly accessible national address registry. Bilingual (French + local language) analytics dashboards give government agencies real-time visibility. Post offices go live as citizen service centers. And a public address-verification API opens the registry to commerce, banking, healthcare, and logistics — for the first time.

Multilingual Program

Six Languages. One Nation.

Français

Official National Language

Lingala

Kinshasa & Northwest DRC

Swahili

Eastern DRC

Kikongo

Kongo Central & Southwest

Tshiluba

Kasai Provinces

English

International & Business

Inside the Build — Technical Details

GPS field capture with dual-validation protocol
National address schema: province · territory · commune · street · number
QR-coded physical address placards at every registered location
Stored in the planned sovereign data center (Kinshasa) designed to Uptime Institute Tier III standards

Public address-verification API for commerce, banking & logistics
Bilingual analytics dashboards for government agencies
Direct integration with call center emergency dispatch system
Citizen registration via 100+ SCPT post offices, all Starlink-connected