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

By Anil K Guptainnovationchildren, education, honeybee network, iim, innovation, micro venture innovation fund, mvif, sristi, unicef, women, youth

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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Global inclusive development challenges- meeting the unmet needs II

By Anil K GuptaUncategorizedaward, challenges, community, corporation, frugal, global, inclusive innovation, women

Global inclusive development challenges- meeting the unmet needs II There are problems on which several foundations have thrown billions of dollars but they still remain intractable. Last week I shared several such challenges with examples of some simple extremely affordable solutions but asking for more. Throwing more money doesn’t always help in generating more designs?…

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‘Be a bee’–nine steps to promote grassroots innovations in India, by Anil Gupta

By Anil K GuptaNews

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…

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Global Innovation challenges: a call for creative connections with children, youth and women

By Anil K GuptaUncategorizedchallenge award, unicef.sristi

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…

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A kurta without a stitch: 39th Shodhyatra

By Anil K GuptaUncategorizedgrassroots inn, handloom, india, innovation, kurta, learning, odisha, policy, tradition, walk

A kurta without a stitch: 39th Shodhyatra Imagine wearing a kurta in which there is no stitch, it would be difficult for us to think of it. But, a weaver Karna Mehr had actually woven a kurta as a cylindrical cloth. Another weaver Chukmani Mehr had woven poetry of Shri Gangadhar Mehr in the Barpali…

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Odisha Shodhyatra: Pervasive Poetry, widespread experiments, healthy children

By Anil K GuptaUncategorized

Odisha Shodhyatra: Pervasive Poetry, widespread experiments, healthy children There could not have been better start of second round of shodhyatras around the country. While waking from Baripali to Narsinghnath, Bargarh district, we met very vibrant, warm and curious communities-always willing to learn and ever keen to share. When did we find a poet in…

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Making Indo-African cooperation a two way street: learning from china

By Anil K GuptaUncategorized

Making Indo-African cooperation a two way street Having just returned from 39th shodhyatra in western Odisha, I can say that if we find In AFRICA even ten percent of the innovations and unique traditional knowledge that we discovered in this walk, India will learn a lot. Those who are not convinced should read a book, Africa…

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Bullets can not Buy Peace, Dialogue the Only Answer

By Anil K GuptaUncategorized

Idea, i.e., inclusive, peaceful India 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…

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why are farmers protesting? a time for hard questions

By Anil K GuptaUncategorized

Farmers’ Protests: time for hard questions At the outset, I fully share the grief of families which lost their earning members during recent firing or because of suicides. But I must also state that just because industry has not paid back a lot of dues, therefor farmers should also not pay back, is a very…

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Bullets can not buy Peace, Dialogue the Only Answer

By Anil K GuptaChildren, 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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