Honourable President gave away the awards today at President\’s house, inspired the innovators through her interactions with them one by one, going into many details. She showed special concern for rained farming. About half of india is bound to remain rain fed. Many times, she recalled that farmers lose their crop because of dry spell…
Learning from African knowledge and innovations: Different countries are at different stages of economic growth and development, but these stages have little to do with the growth of local knowledge systems. Recently held conference of Science and Technology Ministers and secretaries from over 40 countries debated among other things, how can mutual learning take place…
how do we generate hope of reconciliation from the grassroots up, can all those who feel sad about their acts of commission and omission confess their gult and just take a vow to be more humane and kind to each other? can villagers which could not protect innocent neighbours realise that revenge for some body…
I am very happy to invite you to the sixth Biennial Presidential Grassroots Innovation Award on March 9, 2012 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Hon\’ble President will inaugurate the fourth Grassroots Innovation Exhibition at President\’s house near Mughal Garden and give away the awards. The exhibition will be open till 15th March. Kindly let me know…
Next Steps: Nurturing unplanned innovations The response to the column last week was very enthusiastic and I am convinced that the idea of Innovation Park should not be given up. Several colleagues wrote back offering resources, ideas, skills, infrastructure and in some cases, just the spirit. We still have to find locations in Ahmedabad (land…
Should we create an innovation park, or should I/we give up? I normally don\’t start a dialogue on a negative note ever. But permit me to say that i have failed to get powers that be, excited about creating an innovation park in Ahmedabad. Should I give up this dream of fertilizing the mind and heart of…
Innovations in food and food for innovations Now that results have started coming in from the techpedia.in initiative of SRISTI, I think new benchmarks can be created to measure productivity of technology youth. For last fourteen years, SRISTI has been organizing shodh yatras in rural areas. The 28th yatra was in Mizoram about which I wrote last week. I will share…
Four kinds of innovation leaders: Pioneer –see far in future: visionaries networker institution builder Pioneering ideas can come from below as well Executioner—excel in present motivation by practice, intangibles resource mobilization transparency / accountability Vendor selection for product develop and manufacturing phase through uncovering information about…
For just a drop of water: Sanskar of sanitation and conservation The recent 28th shodhyatra in Mizoram has been quiet cathartic for me personally. I had been aware of the need to conserve water and proper practices we should follow in our daily life. But i must confess when i washed hands with soap…
anna\’s suggestion about compulsory nod of panchayats on all bills is an interesting one. But it needs some modification. Swiss constitution has a provision that of any issue gets signed by 100,000 voters, then government is obliged ot have a referendum on that. It does not trust the wisdom of representatives on that. May be…