Category: innovation

UNICEF-SRISTI initiative: Global inclusive development challenges-iii: education, sanitation & micro-venture fund

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Seeking solutions to problems faced by the women, children and youth, particularly disadvantaged ones, worldwide is a challenge itself. I have shared six inclusive innovation challenges so far: a) overcoming anaemia among women through extremely affordable solutions, b) creating awareness about women’s biology, including menstruation among particularly boys and the rest of the society so…

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Bullets can not buy Peace, Dialogue the Only Answer

By Children, Culture, democracy, education, grassroots innovation, Inclusive innovation, innovation, social innovation

In a diverse civilizational society, it is inevitable that one would find multiple perspectives on the concept of nationhood.  To expect uniformity, would be to kill the source of sustainability: that is diversity.  The real tension begins when we start measuring and monitoring the boundary of the diversity.  How much latitude different groups should have…

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Presidency 2012-17: A Legacy of Inclusive Grassroots Innovation

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What is common among Santosh Pachar, a lady farmer from Rajasthan, Paresh Panchal, a mechanic from Gujarat, Akash a tenth class student from Tamil Nadu, Shalini, a student from Patna and six other innovators from around the country? Hosted by The President of India as innovation scholar in residence along with two artists and writers…

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Rapid Prototyping Multiple Futures, given Global Uncertainty

By Creativity, enterpreneurship, frugal innovation, grassroots innovation, Inclusive innovation, innovation, technology,

With the exorbitant hike in UK visa fees and Brexit, globalization got its first blow.  With the transition in US government, a very big question mark has been put on the future of globalized world as it evolved so far.  For all the apologists of uniform world economic order, and WTO, the movement of capital…

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Masti ki Pathshala: Why Cannot We Let More Such Innovations Take Place?

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It is well known that in many states, economic development does not always lead to educational development. Why should ranking on economic and social indicators vary so much? One reason, I have repeatedly mentioned over last two decades  is that top level policy makers don’t spend  enough time, not  even one hour a week with…

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How to Volunteer? : Voluntering for an Inclusive Innovation Movement

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You may be a writer artist, small or big investor, entrepreneur, academic, school teacher, ecologist, food technologist; agricultural, veterinary, human or microbiological  scientist, engineer, fabricator, student, a vendor on the street, shop keeper, householder, translator,  government servant, corporate executive, lawyer, manager of an incubator, a start-up, or just a farmer, pastoralist etc. You may just…

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“Don’t ignore the ideas, just because they are poor ” ( “가난한 사람들의 아이디어를 우습게 보지 말라” )

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“가난한 사람들은 지원이나 조언의 대상이 아니고 아이디어의 원천이라고 생각합니다. 그들은 물질적으로는 가진게 없지만 생활을 변화시킬 아이디어는 얼마든지 있습니다.” 지난 18일부터 20일까지 서울에서 열린 ‘미래혁신포럼’에는 전세계에서 활동하고 있는 공공혁신 전문가, 연구자, 기업가, 교육자 등 각자의 분야에서 변화를 이끌고, 더 나은 미래를 준비하고 있는 내로라하는 혁신가들이 한자리에 모여 ‘혁신’을 논했다.<오마이뉴스>는 그중 인도의 전통의상을 입고 참가해 눈길을 끈, 국제농민지원플랫폼 ‘허니비네트워크’의 설립자…

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Remembering Dr.Kalam…. by celebrating his birthday as Children Creativity and Innovation day!!

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As a small tribute to Dr. Kalam, The Honey Bee Network invited innovative ideas/solutions to unmet needs from children upto class 12 & organised a meeting of creative children who participated in this local and regional idea competition & awarded them today  at 5.00 pm, October 15, 2016, outside RJM hall, IIM old campus.        …

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