IGNITE ’10: Unleashing the power of creative young Indian While editing Young Indian during 1919-1932, Gandhi addressed many problems of nation building. But, he obviously could not anticipate how creative young Indians could be in the independent India. National Innovation Foundation [NIF] organizes contests among children every year for new ideas, inventions and innovations with the help of…
GNITE 10 Awards Upto Class 8 Award Name Class School District State Title Summary I Aditya Parashar 7 Tagore Vidya Mandir Hoshangabad MP Viberator based overtake alarm, light sensitive TV remote; transport vehicle with rotatory luggage carrier and other ideas A microphone in the side view mirror to identify horn frequencies. When door window glass…
From Tianjin to cancun: failure of climate change conference but innovators can still help On Saturday, the host country China expressed disappointment with the attitude of the developed nations who seemed to be backtracking on the commitments made in Kyoto Protocol. Some estimates showed that global carbon dioxide emissions might surpass the targeted limit of 40…
Laitkynsew village is home of the living root bridges across the monsoon-fed river. The local Khasi and Jaintia people have managed to somehow train the secondary roots of trees to travel across the river and then embedded the same on the other side. Smit, Shillong which is known as the Khasi culture center and is…
Machine for Picking dryland cotton in standing crop: Nattubhai’s saga The story of Natthubhai, a thirty nine year old, passionate farmer pursuing his dream of developing a tractor drawn mobile cotton picking machine is a story of a decade long struggle. The work is still in progress. He made a model earlier, which did work…
Water, wisdom and wars: when hunger stalks, anger is not far behind When several parts of the world are facing flood, talking about drought may seem queer. But the fact is that millions of hectares and people have been affected by once in hundred years drought in china, and Vietnam, worst drought in two decades in…
dissent, disagreement and diversity: agenda for national innovation council It was very gratifying that in the first formal meeting of NIC held recently in Planning Commission, diverse opinions were expressed about how to take forward the agenda of inclusive innovation model for the country. While there was yet not a consensus on how will NIC prioritise…
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/business/30501 Grassroots innovation swirls at Nairobi’s Maker Faire GEreports.com | September 8th, 2010 at 8:53 am | All around the world, Maker Faires bring out an array of inventors, tinkerers and hidden geniuses. Africa recently held its second one in Kenya, but as South Africa’s The Daily Maverick summed it up, the innovative energy in Africa takes a decidedly practical path:…
Social challenge awards of Rs twenty crore: A Gandhian legacy The fact that there is not a single challenge award at the national level illustrates the logic of inertia and indifference that the state has towards the unsolved problems of common people. Not to speak about the problems that are emerging as a consequence of…
innovations in public systems: who will bell the cat? May be not many people noticed two of the important recommendations of the 13th Finance commission ( FC). One was to create an institutional framework for systematic scouting, documentation and replication of innovations in public systems which make the impact on the lives of common people. A…