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joining shodhyatra: contributing towards Honey Bee network

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                                                48thShodhyatra Azing’s Farm (Rinchenpong) to Uttarey, West Sikkim Feb 17-23; 2023 Walking to learn, share, and collaborate with creative communities for ensuring a sustainable future report of the previous 34th #shodhyatra in #Sikkim https://anilg.sristi.org/land-of-lepchas-sikkim-34-th-shodhyatra/ Honey Bee Network has been searching, spreading, spawning and supporting grassroots innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge in India and outside…

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Presidency 2012-17: A Legacy of Inclusive Grassroots Innovation

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What is common among Santosh Pachar, a lady farmer from Rajasthan, Paresh Panchal, a mechanic from Gujarat, Akash a tenth class student from Tamil Nadu, Shalini, a student from Patna and six other innovators from around the country? Hosted by The President of India as innovation scholar in residence along with two artists and writers…

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Rapid Prototyping Multiple Futures, given Global Uncertainty

By Creativity, enterpreneurship, frugal innovation, grassroots innovation, Inclusive innovation, innovation, technology,

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 it evolved so far.  For all the apologists of uniform world economic order, and WTO, the movement of capital…

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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 two decades  is that top level policy makers don’t spend  enough time, not  even one hour a week with…

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How to Volunteer? : Voluntering for an Inclusive Innovation Movement

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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 servant, corporate executive, lawyer, manager of an incubator, a start-up, or just a farmer, pastoralist etc. You may just…

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busy as a bee: an article on Honey Bee Network, 2010, June SPAN

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Busy as a Bee By VAIDEHI IYER May/June 2010 All over the world, there are people with problems and innovators with solutions. The Honey Bee Network connects some of them to help make their dreams come true. Imagine an automatic food making machine that does away with the trouble of cooking. “Wouldn’t everybody like that?”…

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Rural start-ups: making a policy and institutional highway

By Innovations at Grassroots - Administrative Innovations - Educational Innovations - Business Incubation, Policy, Start-ups,

I inaugurated the GIC unit set up by  Subhash ola, a Presidential  Grassroots Innovation Award winner of NIF at Behror, midway, Delhi-Jaipur highway. He invented a very cost and energy efficient way of recycling steam to generate power, and/or improving efficiency in textile, food, pharma, plywood industry etc. Sixty per cent saving in water and…

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Scaling up social innovations/technologies: cook in cast iron vessel to overcome anemia

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The desire for  reforms and policy redesign at much faster pace than is the case just now is growing in society. The impatience with inertia is a good sign and public policy makers must take that as a positive sign. Without a set of demanding clients, no institution can pursue continuous innovation. How to institutionalise…

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Learning from a Healthy, happy and helpful culture:  Goa Shodhyata – II

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The drought has taken its toll in Goa as well.  There were many regions where people received water once in two days through the tankers.  One could see several dry wells and ponds.  The ones that had water were perhaps not adequately utilized.  While moving from south to north Goa, we also came across regions where plantation crops…

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