Honey Bee Network and GIAN have jointly organized first International annual competition for creative & Innovative ideas or traditional knowledge practices, which solve day-to-day problems faced by society including animals, the environment, or us. HBNCRIIA award accepts entries from parents, teachers, professionals, college students, or any other adult in the formal or informal sector. This…
What kinds of innovation are emerging in rural India, and can they be documented and harnessed across the country? How can the corporate and government sectors support such grassroots innovation–and how can volunteers get involved? Many of these challenges and approaches are analysed in the book Grassroots Innovation: Minds on the Margin are not Marginal Minds, by…
When any society learns to live with solvable problems by reinforcing inertia, indifference and also internalizing helplessness, then imagination gets stifled first. Once imagination gets constrained, innovations are unlikely to follow. UNICEF and SRISTI have joined hands to announce a global challenge award for a variety of challenges described here: any one who thinks he/she…
Roshan Sori came up an idea for a software to instantaneously register a vote given through an electronic voting machine with the authorities. A 13-year-old boy from a Maoist violence-affected district of Chhattisgarh has won the prestigious APJ Abdul Kalam Ignite Award for suggesting an idea for a software to instantaneously register a vote given…
“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…
Farmers in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra grow okra as border plantation to their cotton crops and have successfully managed to control the pest menace by using the traditional practise of burying the okra in the ground, says Prof Anil K Gupta. Gupta, who teaches at the IIM-Ahmedabad and the founder of the National Innovation Foundation…
If a wheel chair bound person has to travel a long distance, the general choice will be to board a means of transport with somebody’s assistance and to get a wheel chair at the destination to continue the journey. Ajit, Tanmay, Ramkrishna and Nikhil, four students from Pune designed a three wheeler which a wheelchair…
A moral dilemma gripped Professor Gupta when he was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricultural sector in 1985. He noticed how the marginalized farmers were being paid poorly for their otherwise unmatched knowledge. The gross injustice of this constant imbalance led Professor Gupta to found what would turn into a resounding…
SRISTI, NIF, GIAN and other Honey Bee Network members mourn the sad demise of Shri Parshottam B Patel on October 29, 2015; one of the longest serving member of the SRISTI family. He had helped in organising or implementing almost all the 35 Shodhyatras in different states of India. He had represented the Honey Bee…
20 Feb, 2015, 12:32AM IST PANJIM: It is children who can solve problems, but we don’t give them a chance to articulate their ideas, said Prof Anil Kumar Gupta, calling for innovation clubs in all schools across the country, where children can be allowed to find solutions to everyday problems. TEAM HERALD PANJIM: It is…