One of the enabling goals of the National Development Plan (NDP) is to make the Gambia a digital nation and creating a modern information society, through the development of an enhanced ICT infrastructure and services for increased access to quality data services and solutions to support inclusive e-government and sustainable development goals.

In response to the goals of the NDP, The Ministry of Communications & Digital Economy (MOCDE), after understanding the digital addressing challenges of the country, established the need for having a robust and holistic digital addressing solution to be rolled out throughout the country. This solution would eliminate inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and unreliability in already existing digital addressing systems and/or provide one where none existed.