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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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fifteen global inclusive Innovation Challanges

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Global Innovation challenges-1: a call for creative connections with children, youth and women When any society learns to live with solvable problems by reinforcing inertia, indifference and also internalizing helplessness, then imagination gets stifled first. Once imagination gets constrained, innovations are unlikely to follow. UNICEF and SRISTI have joined hands to announce a global challenge…

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UNICEF-SRISTI initiative: Global inclusive development challenges-iii: education, sanitation & micro-venture fund

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Seeking solutions to problems faced by the women, children and youth, particularly disadvantaged ones, worldwide is a challenge itself. I have shared six inclusive innovation challenges so far: a) overcoming anaemia among women through extremely affordable solutions, b) creating awareness about women’s biology, including menstruation among particularly boys and the rest of the society so…

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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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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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Remembering Dr.Kalam…. by celebrating his birthday as Children Creativity and Innovation day!!

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As a small tribute to Dr. Kalam, The Honey Bee Network invited innovative ideas/solutions to unmet needs from children upto class 12 & organised a meeting of creative children who participated in this local and regional idea competition & awarded them today  at 5.00 pm, October 15, 2016, outside RJM hall, IIM old campus.        …

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Are we ready to welcome good monsoon?

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Reminders serve little purpose if the victims also resign to a kind of learned-helplessness. With the exception of a few private attempts to dig small tanks, there has been no campaign in the country to store rain water where it falls, that is, in situ conservation. Why has budgetary allocation for such a strategic goal…

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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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