Innovations at Grassroots Archive

18 September

What can a District Collector do to promote innovations: an open letter

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What can a District Collector do to promote innovations: an open letter Dear District Collector I have had the chance to meet many of you at LBSNAA foundation program during the last five years. LBSNAA Mussoorie...

DIF, district collector, district innovation fund, DM, honey bee network, iima, improvement in education, innovation, invention, nif, open, school, sristi 1 Comment

16 September

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: building upon past mistakes

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: building upon past mistakes An extremely appreciable focus on providing toilet in every school can be a game changing intervention for improving public sanitation and in directly for educational enrolment and retention, particularly...

adaptability, bharat, cleanliness, education, gandhi, india, learning, mistakes, public policy, sabarmati, sanitation, school, swachh, toilet, uniform design, water 1 Comment

21 July

Sustaining Frugal green innovations: a new paradigm of empathetic and evocative ecosystem

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Sustaining Frugal green innovations: a new paradigm of empathetic and evocative ecosystem Frugality is not just about affordability. Even I had not stressed enough about circularity (that is, cradle to cradle approach of not developing a...

communities, empathy, extreme effordability, frugal innovation, honey bee network, paradigm change, policy, start up, youth Leave a Comment

20 July

BRICKS by brick: an emerging new pole in the unipolar world

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BRICS by brick: An emerging new pole in the world Recent agreement, among BRICS nations [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa] to develop a new development finance institution is a highly welcome step. A unipolar...

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06 July

Will new budget support creative communities and young inventors?

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Will new budget support creative communities and young inventors? The entrepreneurship and people’s knowledge are two themes, which recur repeatedly in the manifesto of the ruling party. And yet, there has not been any...

budget, communities, innovation, youth, youth budget 1 Comment

22 June

Primary Education reforms that India cant wait for

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Primary education reforms that India can’t wait for There is a considerable anxiety and a little bit of cynicism at all levels of educational systems about the seriousness with which government really wants...

children, education, india, innovation, policy, reforms, school, teachers Leave a Comment

14 June

lessons from haryana: 33rd shodhyatra part 2

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haryana, honey bee network, innovations, lessons, shodhyatra, Social innovations Leave a Comment

17 May

Time for change: an avalanche of expectations

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Time for change: an avalanche of expectations Never before so many people expected so much of change in such a little time. The election has given a clear verdict in favour of decisiveness, democracy and development....

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07 May

Third International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG], January 19-22, 2015 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

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French Announcement Invitation for the Third International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG], January 19-22, 2015 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Giving voice, visibility and velocity to creativity and innovative potential of common people...

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07 May

Ahmedabad Declaration issued on the concluding day of ICCIG 2, IIMA dec 2012: a plea for giving voice, visibility and value-add to the creativity and innovation at grassroots

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Ahmedabad Declaration Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots December 2012, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Grassroots innovations evolve in response to local problems but not always the ones faced by the innovators...

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