#JawaKummunitiKustoms Online Contest Winners Announced

Introduced with the intention of keeping the Jawa Kommuniti engaged during the lockdown, the #JawaKommunitiKustoms online contest witnessed a stirring response from avid Jawa fans, followers and virtual design artists alike. The contest, hosted on the brand’s Instagram platform got huge engagement with the online community, with over half a million users interacting with the content in some form. For a niche subject like motorcycle customization the response was heartening to see. This also led to a healthy number of entries for the judges to choose from.

The contest wrapped up with the announcement of three winners picked by a panel of judges including the Classic Legend’s executives and design team. Soheil Kalarickal, an art director from Bangalore topped the scoreboard for his rendition of a Jawa forty two reimagined as a mix of brat and café racer style. Milind Solanki’s Cockatrice bagged the 1st runner-up position. Milind is an architect from Surat and gave the Jawa a classical adventure touring twist. Shri Lohar, a polytechnic graduate from Belgaum, used to Jawa forty two to add a minimalistic sports-scrambler touch to the bodywork.

The winner will get a custom hand-painted commemorative Jawa fuel tank while all three on the podium will be awarded signed copies of “The Forever Bike” coffee table book by Adil Jal Darukhanawala that details out the journey of Jawa brand and its motorcycles spread across nine decades.

But that’s not all for the winners! All three will also get an opportunity to intern with the company’s Design Team at its headquarters and a chance to turn their design concepts into reality. Classic Legends has offered this internship to enable these budding designers to hone their skills in terms of design as well as fabrication techniques.

About the contest:

The Jawa Kommuniti Kustoms contest was held between April 29th- May 3rd. 2020 in an effort to enhance community engagement and keep spirits up during the Covid-19 lockdown. Jawa aficionados were invited to share custom concepts of Jawa Motorcycles via sketches or 3D renders on Jawa Motorcycles' official social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The advantage of a virtual contest was that participants could truly let their imaginations run wild, and the entries received were both brilliant and detail-oriented, making it truly difficult to pick a winner.

About Classic Legends Pvt. Ltd.

Classic Legends Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian company established to re-introduce iconic marquee motorcycle brands in the market. Classic Legends aims to become India’s first true lifestyle company and provide opportunities to consumers to relive the heritage of classic brands by co-creating exciting product and service offerings along with the motorcycling ecosystem.

Jawa is a motorcycle brand from Czech Republic, erstwhile Czechoslovakia, with a 90-year legacy, which in its heydays exported classic, well-engineered and rugged motorcycles to more than 120 countries. It entered the Indian markets in the early 1960’s. The twin aspects of Jawa motorcycles - its beautiful design and strong performance character helped it not only to win hearts but also win many world titles.

From its marquee brands portfolio, Classic Legends is currently bringing alive the Jawa, not simply as a brand but a way of life. Classic Legends has leveraged the best of its partner capabilities in design and engineering along with the global expertise, to launch products that capture the DNA and ethos, of the original Jawa.

As Covid-19 Crisis Unfolds, Awign Creates a Unique Compliance Platform in Indian Market

As the country gradually opens up after the lockdown and people get back to work, protocols of social distancing, sanitization and personal hygiene are required to be followed by employees of all organizations. To ensure that all the guidelines mentioned by the government and health authorities are followed meticulously by organizations and that there are timely audits of compliance measures, Awign, India’s largest and most trusted work-fulfilment platform, has created a unique compliance platform called ACCP or Awign Covid Compliance Platform.

ACCP is a tech-based platform that can be deployed in any kind of work environment and modified according to the needs and requirements of on-field norms and workflows. This platform not only ensures that employees follow the Covid-compliant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) but also deploys Awign’s vast network of gig workers to carry out actual physical audits of enforcement measures.

Underlining the need for such a solution that makes the enforcement of Covid-19 compliance measures easier, Gurpreet Singh, Co-founder, Awign shares, “Indian Economy is finding a way to work through the unprecedented circumstances. As the factories, warehouses, large corporate offices reopen amidst COVID-19, they need solutions which ensure all regulations and best practices for mitigating COVID-19 are followed every minute. We have built ACCP to this effect and have made sure that our solution is inclusive of all the actual stakeholders who are responsible for COVID compliance at any workspace.”

In a similar vein, Annanya Sarthak, Co-founder, Awign says, “Having created livelihood through 5 million tasks in past 2 years, Awign has now launched ACCP and is impacting the workforce across various industries, enabling a way for them to come back to work and earn a living amidst the pandemic. We aim to scale fast and impact more than a million employees by getting them back to their workspaces in a safe, controlled and monitored environment.”

The platform has three main benefits:

Enforce: Implement Covid-compliant measures among the workforce so that protocols of social distancing, implementation of personal hygiene, among others, are taken care of.

Monitor: The application detects breaches of protocols and alerts the stakeholders regarding the same through dashboards.

Audit: Timely and regular physical intervention by Awign’s gig workforce in case of violations.

The way ACCP works is simple yet highly effective and easy to deploy. It provides a mobile app-based platform for employers, supervisors and those who are in charge of enforcing protocols. The platform is easy to operate even by the non tech savvy employees like a security guard and Awign provides end to end training and operational support customized for every organization that deploys its platform. It constantly flags violations of protocols through dashboards, notifications, emails and SMSs to all the stakeholders involved. Finally, periodic and detailed physical audits are undertaken by Awign’s professional auditors who carry out inspections of office premises through both mystery and non-mystery means. Awign charges a minimal user based subscription fee from the corporate basis the usage of the platform. 

ACCP has customizable modules to ensure Covid Compliance for a wide variety of scenarios including corporate offices, manufacturing setups , supply chain centres, mobility and last mile delivery solutions, retail establishments, etc. Backed by investors like Unitus Ventures, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and Work10M, Awign has already partnered with some of the top corporate organizations in the country to ensure Covid-19 compliance among their workforce.

Steve Jobs on leave till June

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple's day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.