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ASK “WHAT IF?”

Don’t wait for others in your industry to reimagine how you deliver value.Fire up your imagination and do it yourself.

In 2020, as Ghana was preparing to hold a presidential election, polling officials in one region faced a difficult situation. With the pandemic raging, personnel manning the polls lacked the masks and protective equipment they needed to stay safe. The polls were scheduled to open in just 48 hours. There was no way that officials could distribute the supplies that quickly by truck to dozens of sites.

Fortunately, the Ghanaian government could turn to a different, nontraditional option: distributing the supplies by autonomous drone. Within those 48 hours, drones had flown over 18,000 face masks and other equipment ...

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