chapter project
Designing Kenya’s First Bike-Share Program
In an effort to create more accessible and affordable public transit alternatives, the OpenIDEO Nairobi Chapter is launching the country’s first bike-share program.
Attend events and uncover new opportunities to connect and collaborate with leaders in your city.
Partner with local problem solvers to advance innovative solutions for OpenIDEO Challenges.
Help design new pathways to resources, services, and systems that positively impact your community.
OpenIDEO Chapters are active in more than 30 cities around the world.
Get involved by attending the event near you or learn how to start a Chapter,—where people everywhere connect to drive local change around global challenges.
Today’s societal issues are too complex to tackle alone. In OpenIDEO Chapters, people come together to build on each other’s skills and ideas for good. Check out what our Chapters community has been up to.
Form a team to start a Chapter wherever you are. It’s a two year journey that takes time, guts and commitment—but we’ve seen this work can change lives and transform communities.
We bet you have them—and we’ve got you covered.
OpenIDEO Chapters regularly convene community builders, innovators, experts and funders in cities worldwide to take local action on global OpenIDEO initiatives. This action takes many different forms including events, workshops, panel discussions, design research, social meetups, networking, and dinners. Chapters are volunteer-run and community-based initiatives, organized by people who are passionate about solving social issues in their cities through collaborative design.
We have built an intentional, supportive process for establishing a Chapter so that those interested in starting them can feel out if the commitment and opportunity is right for them. It involves two steps: forming a team and launching an OpenIDEO Outpost. To learn more visit our pre-application resources.
Usually around four weeks. This can vary depending on the speed of your team to deliver the requested materials throughout the recruitment process, and the capacity of the OpenIDEO team.
Yes! We encourage you to map the different local stakeholders in your city that can support the Chapter in any way. We will provide guidance and support to build such partnerships.
We have learned that impact is best achieved when OpenIDEO Chapters across the globe collectively focus on driving impact on the same topics. That said, we believe flexibility is important and empower Chapters to contextualize our efforts to be relevant to their local communities.
