social needs which we need to address but are not able to address: will list them here briefly:
a) online open source as well as IP protected collaborative design platform with stakes of those who contribute
b) multi-language multimedia (MLMM) open source database for educational lessons for school children( to overcome asymmetry between privileged and less privileged children); similar MLMM for grassroots innovations, for common property institutions, innovative school and college teachers,
c)MLMM for socia change agents in a way that people can make contributions to thsoe causes silently ( that is anonymously or with their identity disclosed to recipient only or known to all,
d) enhancing capabilities of various databases with mobile applications. For instance, redesign www.sristi.org/cultural in a way that people can upload folk art, street art, or art in train or bus, with contact information of the artists so that those who wish to support them, invite them or buy their work for illustration in commercial publications or just sharing openly can contact the artists,
e) share the HOney Bee magazine content in rural areas and in urban slums through local translations so that creative people can connect with each other,
f) mlmm of centenarians Dadis and dadas, stories of those who live for hundred years, soem we already have, but we need thousands more, india will perhaps be the first country to have such a publicly accessible database of wisdom of centenarian elders
g) MLMM of folk stories, grandmothers tales, adopt a Granny on the Net fro listening stories which parents are too buy to tell, if some of these grannies can be supported for their old age survival ( in the cases needed, rest can be gratis), so much the better,
h) linking MSME with tech students all over and not just in Gujarat as attempted by sristi\’s techpedia.in and GTU
i can go on but where are the managers, coordinators, mentors, sustainers, coders, workers, we need a lot of bees, a huge lot of honey bees…….is the nectar in our flowers weak, lost its aroma or essence or authenticity or have the bees have lost the ability to discern???????? where are we going wrong????
Anil K Gupta