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September 10, 2026

Introducing BICI Global Advisor Cities: Learning from the world’s leading cycling cities to shape the next generation of safe, connected cycling networks.

Drawing on their cities’ experience in advancing cycling, the BICI Global Advisors advisors will bring valuable perspectives on what it takes to build safe, connected, and accessible cycling infrastructure—and how cities can turn ambition into lasting change.

Introducing BICI Global Advisor Cities: Learning from the world’s leading cycling cities to shape the next generation of safe, connected cycling networks.
BIGRS Cities – Technical Assistance for Safer Streets and Safer Mobility

April 8, 2016

BIGRS Cities – Technical Assistance for Safer Streets and Safer Mobility

The Global Designing Cities Initiative will be collaborating with WRI and IRAP as part of the Safer Streets and Safer Mobility group under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety to provide technical assistance to the cities of Addis Ababa, Bogota, and Sao Paulo.

GDCI in Sao Paulo, Brazil

April 8, 2016

GDCI in Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) is pleased to announce that it has selected Sao Paulo as one of its three cities for technical assistance under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety

GDCI in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

April 8, 2016

GDCI in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Global Designing Cities Initiative is pleased to announce that it has selected Addis Ababa as one of its three cities for technical assistance under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety for 2016.

GDCI in Bogota, Colombia

April 8, 2016

GDCI in Bogota, Colombia

We are thrilled to announce that the city of Bogotá has been selected as one of the three cities in which the Global Designing Cities Initiative will provide technical assistance this year.

Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS)

October 11, 2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS)

In 2014, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a new phase of the foundation’s Global Road Safety Initiative, committing $125 million to the goal of reducing fatalities and injuries from road traffic crashes.