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06 March

Rapid Prototyping Multiple Futures, given Global Uncertainty

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With the exorbitant hike in UK visa fees and Brexit, globalization got its first blow. With the transition in US government, a very big question mark has been put on the future of globalized world as...

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20 February

Masti ki Pathshala: Why Cannot We Let More Such Innovations Take Place?

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It is well known that in many states, economic development does not always lead to educational development. Why should ranking on economic and social indicators vary so much? One reason, I have repeatedly mentioned over last...

education, honey bee network, school 5 Comments

23 January

How to Volunteer? : Voluntering for an Inclusive Innovation Movement

Written by anilg

You may be a writer artist, small or big investor, entrepreneur, academic, school teacher, ecologist, food technologist; agricultural, veterinary, human or microbiological scientist, engineer, fabricator, student, a vendor on the street, shop keeper, householder, translator, government...

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03 January

If you don’t teach me something new, you are not my friend

Written by anilg

What could be a good mantra to welcome the new year than to insist on making relationships also learning bonds? If there are three circles or venn diagrams, learning, loving and living, I will always want to be...

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28 November

Demonetisation: Can a crisis be converted into an opportunity?

Written by anilg

There has been a deep debate in the country about the inconvenience caused to common people, unfortunate death of those elderly in queue who should have been treated better, and many others. It is acknowledged that...

Towards empathetic design: surer, simpler, and stable design for the real problems

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There has been a considerable upsurge of interest in design and development community in reinforcing ‘design thinking’ as if it is a homogeneous set of ideas which can be applied without paradoxes tensions and ethical dilemma....

Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) awards for distributed talent of India

Written by anilg

Many problems that we face in our daily life sometimes needs high tech solution but at an extremely affordable level. SRISTI pioneered the grassroots innovation movement as a part of the Honey Bee Network. National Innovation...

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06 November

Fuelling Imagination Of Young Empathetic Innovators Of India

Written by anilg

Recently many cars collided on Mathura road, because they could not see the accident ahead due to fog. This could have been avoided if the idea of Gayathri and Pranav from Naval school, Kochi, Kerala, had...

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28 October

Class 6 boy takes on EVM looting, wins Abdul Kalam Ignite Award

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Roshan Sori came up an idea for a software to instantaneously register a vote given through an electronic voting machine with the authorities. A 13-year-old boy from a Maoist violence-affected district of Chhattisgarh has won the...