Co-creation blogging

You can now post blogs via wiki-bike.com. Share your ideas about bicycle designs with the world, by posting a blog. Others can comment on your posts and this way co-create a design. You can also use the blog to share your photos of bicycles from around the world, to find people who want to co-design a bicycle, or to get input from others on your design before you submit it to the African Bicycle Design Contest 2010-2011 for instance.
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This is how you join the African Bicycle Design Contest 2010-2011...

 

African Bicycle Design Contest is gaining publicity

Around the world people are getting interested in the idea to design and co-create bicycles for Africa. Just a view pages that mention the contest:

http://bicycledesign.net/2010/06/african-bicycle-design-contest/

http://www.core77.com/blog/competition/african_bicycle_design_competition__16947.asp

http://www.k-creative-japan.com/2010/06/african-bicycle-design-contest.html

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/wiki-bike-african-bicycle-design-contest

Wiki-bike, a new platform for bicycle design
 

The Netherlands is famous for its bicycle culture. There are more bicycles than inhabitants and a bicycle is used by all people, regardless of status, sex, culture and religion. Similar to the Netherlands, bicycles are also very popular in Africa. But where in the Netherlands the bicycle is mostly used for leisure and commuting, in Africa the bicycle is a tool for economical empowerment and independence. Unlike the Netherlands, the available bicycle designs in Africa are of poor quality, which hampers economic development. 

Research shows there is a need for sustainable bicycle designs produced with environmental friendly and local available materials, to reduce or prevent an increase of CO2 emission. The worldwide knowledge and innovative ideas, especially from the Dutch, could have a real impact on the livelihood of African families.

We invite everyone to share your ideas by submitting your bicycle designs (in video, drawings, photo's, poems, etc). Maybe your design becomes one of the five designs which will be developed by a co-creation team in Africa. This first phase of the competition ends in October 2010.