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One Bicycle per Person: Putting the BoP on bikes!

Website: http://1bpp.net
Members: 126
Latest Activity: Apr 17

Introduction to One Bicyle per Person

Today, there are more than one billion bicycles in use globally. And since 2001, more than 100 million bicycles have been manufactured annually. That's double the production of 25 years ago, growing more than twice as fast as global population. But while perhaps half these bicycles are in mainland China, where they have been key to rapid development, most of the rest are in developed nations. One Bicycle per Person (1BpP) addresses the tremendous unmet need for affordable bicycles at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP).

All of us here at Acumen Fund Community share the same dream of ending extreme poverty. Affordable personal transportation adds value to every social enterprise's value chain, and each of us can help right now to meet this urgent need by adding our acumen to the 1BpP value web. Together, we will do well by doing even better.

1BpP is an activity/group within Acumen Fund Community, and is not sponsored by Acumen Fund.

You are invited to help if you can. Join us and add your ideas and links to resources.

Need:

Does your community or region need bicyles?

Resources:

Do you or does your company or organization have a resource that can advance 1BpP?

Social Enterprises:

Do you have a social enterprise or a business plan for a social enterprise that will bring bicycles to the BoP?

Comment Wall:

Introduce yourself and your need, resource, or plan using the "Comment Wall" below, and provide a link(s) there to relevant information, such as news stories, statistics, and organizational websites. Relevant links will be added to the references below.

Discussion Forum:

Use the "Discussion Forum" below to explore ideas, organize resources, and describe your business plan. Acumen Fund Community (AFC) has groups beginning to serve as acumen resources, so use the Discussion Forum here to network these resources with needs and plans to support the 1BpP goal.

References

Need:

Data

Bicycle Distribution by Nation: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=bicycles&d=ICS&f=cmID%3a49921-0

Bicycle Trade by Nation: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=bicycles&d=ComTrade&f=_l1Code%3a87%3bcmdCode%3a871200

Bicycles Produced In The World: http://www.worldometers.info/bicycles/

Eco-Economy Indicators: http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/indicators/C48/

Do-it-yourself Pedal Power

News

Bicycles A Mainstay In China: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/business/worldbusiness/07iht-bike.1.14289892.html

Organizations and Communities

Kagoma Community Based Organization (KACOBA); Muwangi, Buwenge Subcounty, Kagoma County; Jinja District. Uganda: email kacobab@yahoo.com

"Organizations Requesting Bicycles" http://www.ibike.org/environment/recycling/request-bikes.htm

Resources:

Used Bicycles

Re-cycle: http://www.re-cycle.org/

Pedals for Progress: http://www.p4p.org/

Bicycles for Humanity (B4H)

Working Bikes Cooperative

Bicycles

The Recyle - a bicylcle made from recycled plastic bottles.

The Uni-Cycle - a bicycle made from recycled plastic

Matt Clark's plastic bicycle

The Izzy plastic bicycle

Arcata Bicycle Library

World Bicycle Relief

Investors

Global Initiatives: http://globalinitiatives.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/resources-for-social-entrepreneurs/

Organizations and Communities

Non-profit bicycle advocacy and participation

Human and electric-powered transportation consulting

Mobis Transportation Alternatives

PEDAL (Pedal Energy Development Alternatives)

Maya Pedal (Guatemala)

World Bicycle Relief

Social Enterprises:

Bicycles

People Power Stations

Zambikes

Bicycle repair

Pedals for Progress: http://www.p4p.org/

Bicycle Parts and Accessories

Global Cycle Solutions: http://globalcyclesolutions.com/ - GSC has a "universal adapter" for pedal power.
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About the 1BpP logo: Your Free BoPcycle Shtick.

A shtick is a characteristic attribute, talent, or trait that is helpful in securing recognition or attention. The 1BpP logo used for this group is designed as a good way to convey this idea to the world, but a better way is to include variations designed for particular communities because this is not a one-size-fits-all world. Thus, individuals and communities are encouraged to vary this design to suit their needs and tastes. For example, change the colors, flip the bicycle horizontally, rotate the wheels, highlight your location on the map, even change the language. Just contact the 1BpP group creator to get a copy of the master suitable for Photoshop, and please share your finished creation with the 1BpP group so we can celebrate our diversity by adding it to our Community Flags. And if you think of an even better shtick, please don't be shy!

Community Flags:

The World

Discussion Forum

People Power Stations (PPS) - a social enterprise

Started by Kevin Parcell. Last reply by Kevin Parcell Jan 30. 17 Replies 0 Likes

PEOPLE POWER STATIONS I'm developing a demonstration project for a sustainable social enterprise called "People Power Stations" (PPS) that will bring affordable bikes to the BoP as part of a…Continue

Tags: ITC, poverty, money, sanitation, bicyles

An Introduction - World Bicycle Relief

Started by Michael Kollins. Last reply by Michael Kollins Jul 28, 2010. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Apologies for our tardiness of getting involved here. I am part of the team that manages World Bicycle Relief (www.worldbicyclerelief.org). We are a…Continue

Global Cycle Solutions

Started by Kevin Parcell. Last reply by Kevin Parcell Jun 15, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Yasmina Zaidman sent me this link to a blog about "Global Cycle…Continue

The need for bicycles for the poor in Indonesia

Started by titi indahyani. Last reply by Kevin Parcell Apr 15, 2010. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Hi Kevin,Thanks for invite me to join this community. I really interested to build a network of resources to support similar projects all over Indonesia not only in Jakarta. As for your information,…Continue

Net Impact Pune Chapter would support 1BPP

Started by Prashant Sachdev. Last reply by Kevin Parcell Apr 7, 2010. 15 Replies 0 Likes

I like 1BPP concept and it looks something that would work well with the patient capital model outlined. This could very easily be replicable for bringing ripple effects across the developing areas…Continue

Tags: mba, nipune, 1bpp, pune, netimpact

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Comment Wall

Comment

You need to be a member of 1BpP to add comments!

Comment by Kevin Parcell on April 17, 2012 at 5:44am: I've been tweaking our website - http://1bpp.net

and our pilot project - http://reconomy.net

Comment by Kevin Parcell on November 17, 2011 at 3:54pm: Posted November 17th, 2011, this blog linked below introduces our
proposal to pay individuals, businesses, and groups for their
contributions to our global Reconomy effort:

http://community.acumenfund.org/profiles/blogs/occupy-reconomy

I urge you to join us in this effort to move the People Power Stations pilots forward and advance 1BpP.

Cheers,
Kevin

Comment by Kevin Parcell on May 11, 2011 at 5:21am: A new vid about "Development through Education" at Vigyan Ashram

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7244987184341990763#

Vigyan Ashram is collaborating with People Power Stations

Comment by Kevin Parcell on January 28, 2011 at 12:31pm: Here is a great little post with a link to a PDF with a study about how building bike infrastructure creates more jobs than building motor-vehicle infrastructure:

http://thecityfix.com/new-report-biking-builds-jobs/

Comment by Kevin Parcell on January 18, 2011 at 8:52am: Here is a link to my blog posted this weekend from Costa Rica, which discusses the economics of ecotourism

http://community.acumenfund.org/profiles/blogs/1bpp-11-sampling-the...

I've traveled here to learn how to install photovoltaic modules in remote locations through a workshop presented by Solar Energy International, and I'm taking advantage of this travel to learn more about the region while the pieces for People Power Stations slowly come together in India.

Comment by Kevin Parcell on November 5, 2010 at 5:49am: I posted a new blog on October 31st that updates the 1BpP initiative and People Power Stations project.

Comment by Kevin Parcell on October 15, 2010 at 5:01am: I've just posted a new blog that discusses the new Living Planet Report, issued yesterday by WWF, in relation to this 1BpP initiative and People Power Stations.

I'll have another post soon updating progress with the 1BpP initiative and the People Power Stations project.

Comment by Kevin Parcell on September 27, 2010 at 1:37pm: Anil Gupta: India's Hidden Hotbeds of Invention

A 22 minute Ted Talk, illustrating that bicycles are among the most powerful tools today for innovation.

Comment by Kevin Parcell on September 16, 2010 at 4:46am: Michael Kollins at World Bicycle Relief shared this link with me this morning to Kristof's Column yesterday in the NYT about WBR's recent distribution of bicycles in Zimbabwe. The link to the article, "A Boy and His Bicycle", might expire soon, so here's a short extract:

"In the world of aid, nothing goes quite as planned, and it’s far too early to know whether this program will succeed. World Bicycle Relief tried to get around potential problems by spending months recruiting village elders to oversee the program (it helps that the elders receive bicycles, which they get to keep after two years if they provide solid oversight). Elders will ensure that fathers and older brothers do not confiscate bicycles from girls on the grounds that females are too insignificant to merit something so valuable.

Parents sometimes try to save daughters the risk of walking several hours each way to school by lodging them in town. But the result is sometimes sexual extortion; if a girl wishes to continue her education by staying in cheap lodgings, the price is repeated rape. With bicycles, those girls will now be able to stay at home."

Comment by Michael Kollins on September 8, 2010 at 9:13am: As Kevin says, we at World Bicycle Relief are eager to try to help improve education, healthcare, and economic empowerment using the power of bicycles. We currently have supplied bikes to different organisations and programmes in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, and Sri Lanka. Please don't hesitate to contact us if any of you find yourselves in Kisumu (Kenya), Lusaka (Zambia), or Harare (Zimbabwe) and want to tour our assembly plants and see our products. Regards, Mike Kollins, Regional Director, East Africa