In what ways is this project unique and creative? Edit

Incremental innovation is what makes this a unique and creative project! It’s very creative to use bamboo to manufacture bicycles.

What is the social value of this project? Edit

Designed using local materials, the price of this bicycle is accessible for the average citizen. Knowing how transportation costs can hinder development, this project can resolve several problems, such as: reducing the distance between school and village, market and village, hospital and village and in a moment, become a leverage to economic and social progress. The ecological production method is over and above the fact that the bike is an energy-efficient mode of transportation, low risk and takes up little space. When used, it leaves a small environmental footprint.

What is the potential of this project to expand and develop? Edit

Economically speaking, the project has the potential to spread more quickly in the local and regional markets. The bamboo culture can be intensively developed compared to materials originally used in bike manufacturing, such as: steel, chrome, carbon fibre, titanium, etc.

What was the triggering factor of this project? Edit

Bicycles are always one of the most used individual vehicles in many developing countries. The image of an Asian city bursting with bicycles is a frequently used cliché.

In developing countries to date, bicycles transport sick people to the hospital, bring working women to remote health centres to give birth, give young people access to education when there are no schools in their village, allow people to travel independently as cars remain a costly mode of transportation reserved for the wealthy.

In European cities, but mostly in China and a few other countries in South-East Asia, bicycles reduce the concentration of the downtown population by giving workers an efficient way to get around between their homes in suburbs and their workplaces in the city. Using horses also decreased in the same period.

What is the business model of this project? Edit

The project uses a social entrepreneurial model that combines social innovation with the business model.

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