Administrative Innovations Archive

20 September

Affirmative action: Do we need a pair of new scissors?

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Affirmative action: Do we need a new scissors? Recent agitation by the young leaders of one of the most affluent communities in Gujarat has revived the debate about affirmative action and the need...

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23 August

an Institutional innovation for decentralised governance

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The increasing role of social media, alternative online news channels and individual blogs in shaping public opinion has generated new paradoxical challenges before institution builders. Younger generation is all the more impatient with in-depth...

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19 October

Twenty-five years of web and the Honey Bee Network:

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Twenty-five years of web and the Honey Bee Network: The cross-cultural exchange of knowledge before the invention of world wide web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 took place slowly but perhaps more attentively. The surfing culture...

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19 October

Will government 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 declaration in...

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27 September

MOM to Mars: will mangalayan make life of ‘mangli’ girl better?

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MOM to Mars: will mangalayan make life of ‘mangli’ girl better? The entire country celebrated the unique achievement of Indian space scientists when in the first attempt, the Mangalayan reached the orbit of Mars. Naturally, the...

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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

30 July

scaling up grassroots innovation to millions: China Innovation Network, partner of HBN at TUFE shows the way

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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=648945252 just returned from china, met some very interesting example of partnership between informal sector grassroots innovator like liu (who failed three times in scaling up his innovations, or maturing them)...

briquette stove, chin, china, honey bee network, india, liyan, stove, tufe Leave a Comment

29 July

BRICS by Bricks: need for new values and ethos for BRICS development bank

Written by anilg

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...

bank, brazil, brics, china, CULTURE, ethics, india, russia, south africa, world bank Leave a 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

21 July

how not to support start ups

Written by anilg

there are several problems with these policies: a) unless we decide to invest in student ideas when they are still students, that is, they r in their colleges and not when they join incubators, we will...

entrepreneurship, government, innovbaion, msme, start up Leave a Comment

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