"50% of people in developing countries live in places where there are no maps, addresses or street names, UBI gives them an immediate alternative for their needs."
Because everybody's got a device that has GPS and can decode these opaque strings, right? /facepalm
Plus, do those 50% of the people tend to get lost going from place to place in their daily lives? And do members of the other 50% have a need to be able to precisely locate any of those people without maps, addresses, or street names?
I humbly submit that this is a very nice solution in desperate and ultimately fruitless search for a problem.
GPS coordinates work regardless if there is an image on the Google map... a coordinate is a coordinate (which is why the military, aviation industry, maritime industry, agricultural industry, etc... all use coordinates instead of some silly system like this phonetical one.)
Because everybody's got a device that has GPS and can decode these opaque strings, right? /facepalm