What are Bike Scouts and Superscout?
Bike Scouts and the Superscout platform are equally unique projects that have never been attempted before because of the general belief that the traditional approach of putting profit before anything else is the only way to build things that last, which is simply not true.
It might be more difficult to get things off the ground by not focusing on profit but in the long run things that are built on genuine value for people and planet rather than short-term business goals will outlast everything for a very simple reason - people support things that provide genuine value for ourselves, our family, and community even when we can’t afford to be a customer.
This is what real value generation is all about, and the people who benefit from things that genuinely solve real problems we experience in daily life without the requirement for a transaction are what becomes a part of who we are instead of just being something that we buy when we have money.
Speaking of real problems, the most unrecognized challenge we all face that most of us don’t realize until we experience it first-hand is the lack of real connection between each other and between groups and communities that we’re a part of in times of climate-driven disasters, economic crises, and other events that isolate us from our family, friends, our way of making a living, and the opportunity to thrive.
What is the Bike Scouts community?
This is why Bike Scouts exist as a community that serves as a network of support for anyone and everyone because we can’t depend on being organized enough in the real world when the most chaotic things happen that disrupt our lives. Bike Scouts is a network of support that allows even just one person to scale the ability to do something helpful when it’s needed, where it’s needed.
Bike Scouts was launched in 2013 as a way for Filipinos to provide an alternative means of access to communications, information, and essential supplies using bicycles in the immediate aftermath of category-5 Typhoon Yolanda that caused over 6,000 deaths and severe damage to multiple villages, towns, and cities. Today, Bike Scouts is still the only continuously-operating volunteer bicycle messenger service for disaster response in the world with on-ground experience in all kinds of severe disaster events including storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the global Covid-19 pandemic. When disasters happen in the Philippines Bike Scouts is the only operational delivery system for people that’s free of charge for anyone to almost anywhere wherever help is needed.
What is the Superscout Platform?
Superscout is a platform that’s designed to be a place where anyone and everyone can find others to participate in social teamwork which is basically about people coming together to contribute their time, skill, tools, resources, and even money to do something important for others. Social teamwork is based on the Filipino culture of Bayanihan that’s all about helping others in our own community solve local problems with whatever we have and without the expectation of return. Bayanihan is something we do out of habit not out of charity but because it’s what people in a community do for each other.
The Superscout platform was built by volunteers and maintained through Bayanihan with the help of professional IT and technology partners. Superscout was built and continues to be developed and operate without funding allowing the Bike Scouts community to design and build our own platform without the demands for profit before people and planet that other investor-platforms have to contend with.
What is “Bayanihan?”
Bayanihan is a combination of two Filipino words “Bayan” which means country or community and “Bayani” which means hero. Combined, these two words can literally be translated to “being a hero for your own community.”
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