Educational Innovations Archive

20 July

BRICKS by brick: an emerging new pole in the unipolar world

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...

brics, india, new culture, new development bank, world bank Leave a Comment

13 July

Making budget more responsive to the aspirations of the youth

Written by anilg

Making budget more responsive to the aspirations of the youth There have been several welcome announcements in the budget that deserve appreciation, even if some of them are symbolic and segmented. For instance, the venture capital...

angel, budget upa, fund, innovation, mistakes, nda, risk Leave a Comment

17 June

uncourse on knowing, feeling and doing: a 12 year old young guest tomorrow

Written by anilg

tomorrow, we might have twelve year old girl Chaaya as guest in my class at IIMA, 820pm, how do we overcome inertia, how did she identify a social problem, find a solution, suggest it to nif...

how do little children drink water?, school, unequal height of tap, water tap Leave a Comment

14 June

lessons from haryana: 33rd shodhyatra part 2

Written by anilg

haryana, honey bee network, innovations, lessons, shodhyatra, Social innovations Leave a Comment

12 June

un-course on ways of knowing, feeling and doing

Written by anilg

un-courtseUn-course on ways of knowing, feeling, doing In view of huge response to the course, I have to try to ensure they those who might contribute more in the discussions are selected. I m mentioning a...

Beyond Gujarat model

Written by anilg

Beyond Gujarat Model There are many elements of gujarat model which haven't been studied enough. Gujaratis reached Africa much before British reached there. As Hirschman argued in a seminal paper on civilising influence of commerce, the...

africa, compromise, consensus, democracy, developemnt, dissent, entreprenurship, finance commission, frugal life, gujarat model, simple life, trade Leave a Comment

07 May

Third International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG], January 19-22, 2015 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Written by anilg

French Announcement Invitation for the Third International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG], January 19-22, 2015 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Giving voice, visibility and velocity to creativity and innovative potential of common people...

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07 May

Ahmedabad Declaration issued on the concluding day of ICCIG 2, IIMA dec 2012: a plea for giving voice, visibility and value-add to the creativity and innovation at grassroots

Written by anilg

Ahmedabad Declaration Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots December 2012, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India Grassroots innovations evolve in response to local problems but not always the ones faced by the innovators...

grassroots, iccig, iima, innovation 3 Comments

28 April

Discourse, democracy and debate: Are we getting what we deserve?

Written by anilg

Discourse, democracy and debate: Are we getting what we deserve? The popular adage is that people get the government they deserve. I am not sure that the current tenor of the electoral discourse is either dignified...

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21 April

sristi: what does it stand for

Written by anilg

SRISTI SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions www.sristi.org), which means creation, was born in 1993, essentially to support the activities of the Honey Bee Network to recognize, respect and reward creativity...