Reporting, research, and engineering notes from the Remaply team.
What it actually costs the Pacific Islands, in dollars and in lives, to be a region where most homes have no address. A working estimate, drawn from public Fiji data and operators on the ground.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-29
Plus Codes, what3words, DIGIPIN, CEP, Rwanda's national addressing project, South Korea's road-name overhaul. What worked, what did not, and why none of them quite fit.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-25
Engineering notes from building offline-tolerant address infrastructure for a region spread across thousands of islands. Aimed at developers, with the trade-offs left in.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-22
The golden hour is the first sixty minutes after a serious injury or cardiac event. Across the Pacific Islands, that hour is often spent finding the patient. Here is why, and what it costs.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-18
Pin-only is not enough. Here is how Remaply defines a verified address, why that matters for banks, telcos, and government, and where the line sits between confidence and friction.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-15
Across the Pacific Islands, the lack of a verifiable home address quietly blocks bank accounts, loans, mobile money, and KYC. The fix is small. The opportunity is not.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-12
Fiji has never had a national postcode. Our decision behind picking the AA#### format, what it can encode, and what it deliberately leaves out.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-08
Building map and address tools for places where 4G drops at the reef. Tile caching, sync strategies, and the connectivity assumptions we had to throw out, written from Fiji for the wider Pacific Islands.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-04
Winston, Yasa, Harold. Each cyclone exposed the same gap, responders cannot reach what they cannot find. Here is how an address layer changes the calculus across the Pacific Islands.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-04-01
Where Remaply is now, where it is going across the Pacific Islands, and what we are honestly afraid of getting wrong. The piece we want investors, partners, and our own team to read.
By Kappy Prasad, 2026-03-28