Selfselection: the logistics of micropartnership

The first step is identification of individual recipients at a certain location; identification may be achieved by fingerprint-scan, iris-scan or otherwise. The identified person receives safeguarded data which serve as a key. This coded key opens the door to material support. Delivery of this support is controlled by the recipient.

It involves intermediary agents in the logistical chain who depend on the data (and therefore on the entrustment) of the recipient. Logistics will be market-oriented, and improved efficiency will lead to reduced costs and less corruption, while administration will be facilitated.

In this chain the scanner has a central role. In remote areas under adverse conditions it has to scan & identify large numbers of people (max. 5000), search the data-base, and supply them with a unique code. This personal code comprises his personal (fixed) identification code, but also a periodically changing personal code which is shown on a display to the enrolled person only, depending on the time and place of scanning. This personal code is the key to delivery of supplies, money or any other privilege.

The portable scanner operates in remote areas and often difficult terrain, and regularly exchanges data with the regional station. Data from the regional station are periodically merged with the central administration, and new funding will be released.

The recipient entrusts his intermediary agent (perhaps a related lorry-driver, taxi-driver or any travelling person the recipient trusts) with his code. This agent connects to the regional station, supplies several personal codes, receives the aid accordingly and takes a reasonable fee.