why does inertia persist for decades and centuries in technologies used by poor people particularly women? why despite millions spent on social innovation problems of poor remain unaddressed; how does honey bee network help bridge the gap
8. Gandhi announced a Global
innovation challenge
for addressing an Indian unmet need
Mahatma Gandhi's Announcement of a Design Competition, 24th
July 1929 One Lakh Rupees or 7700 Pounds Prize!
Akhila Bharatiya Charkhaa Sangh Worker's Samiti has decided to
organize this contest for inventors and engineers all over the world that
if they could come up with a Charkha or a Samyukta Yantra which - for
making the thread and cloth that satisfies the following criterion - shall
be awarded prize money of 1 Lakh Rupees or 7700 pounds.
Gyti.techpedia.in/announcement
9. INERTIA OF CENTURIES gave way
thanks to the father of crowd sourcing /uncovering distributed leadership in
India 1931
10. creativity, compassion, communication and collaboration
anil
Honey Bee Network
www.Sristi.org/anilg anilg@sristi.org
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www.nifindia.org
Techpedia.in
Autopoietic model of self
governed, self designed
creativity, compassion,
communication and
collaboration
12. Shodhyatra every summer, every autumn, every
winter
the teacher Within
the teacher Around (peers)
the teacher in Nature
the teacher among
Common People
Learnings from 5000+ km walk
13.
14. Inertia and innovation
• Why do certain problems remain unsolved for such along time?
• How to make invisible pain of poor people visible to the formal STI?
• How to raise the expectations of common people from STI institutions?
• How do communities collaborate with scientists and technologists?
• How to learn from the heuristics underlying grassroots innovations?
• How to disseminate co-created products and services as DIY or licensable IP
based products?
16. Civilizational inertia:
can we inventorise such wicked problems
Bastar
Designing
Nut crackers
Why doesn’t any in-situ
value addition take place in
forests
17. Technological and institutional Inertia:
when WILL women suffer NO more
Source:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?pq=paddy+transplanting+image&hl=fr&sugexp=gsis,i18n%3Dtrue&cp=31&gs_id=n&xhr=t&q=paddy+transplanting+image
+india&nord=1&gs_sm&gs_upl&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1360&bih=624&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wq#5225312498863276162
21. Water is rich in iron. Increase in
Iron content in the body results in
liver disorder, diabetes, arthritis
and cancer
Water purification system
22. Wood Carving/drilling Machines: large gear to small gear
Pedal operated wood carving
machine-Gulab Gogoi, West Subahi
Hand operated wood carving machine-
Prafulla Borah, Misamari Pedal operated wood carving
machine- Toko Borah, Misamari
23. Adjustable walker:
idea -innovation - product
Miss Shalini Kumari, class 8 Patna,
Bihar
• .
NIF engaged design firm for developing improved
reliable prototype. And licensed it to a company with fee shared with innovator
24.
25. Bad design, good intentions
Do we need to waste
water every time,
every where
26. Inclusive solutions
for human and non human sentient brings
• New hand pump has a
provision of 25% water
donation for the animal
trough, which is collected
from the runoff
• A provision of about 1 liter
water storage inside the head
of the pump which can be
utilized through a tap for use
as a drinking source just by
pumping once
27.
28. Towards blending natural, social, ethical and intellectual
capital
Sowing the seeds of
samevdana
Towards empathetic
innovations
29. Towards blending natural, social, ethical and intellectual
capital
Samvedana
feeling others ‘ pain as one’s own,
exactly,
Designs born out
of empathy
30. Empathetic Designs: all for alleviating
the pain of mother
samvedan
a
srijansheelta
Sanyojan
32. Transcending frontiers of excellence : a kurta without a stitch
Karna meher and his wife have done
what seems impossible: weave a kurta
without a stitch, baripali, Barghar,
odisha
Can we partner with Karna couple and
add value to their unique skills
Can they be an equity holder in our
enterprise?
34. Reducing ex ante and
ex poste transaction
costs is necessary for a
fair and viable
innovation ecosystem
35. www.techpedia.in
• recently a new initiative techpedia.in, (a
portal by SRISTI ( sristi.org) pooling
204,000 engineering projects by 550k
students from over 600 institutions) etc.,
engaging with youth in the one of the
youngest country besides
•
36. Abandoned US patent database
• With the help of two alumni, Zaigham and Devika, we
have pooled 0.9 million abandoned US patents for free
use by MSME, gian.org/patent.php or techpedia.in/patent
• Other databases: grid.undp.org.in
• Grassroots innovation open database
37. Learning platforms
from concrete to abstract
1) Artefactual - as a replication of solution level
2) Analogic - metaphor to inspire
3) Heuristic - as a model or principle
4) Gestalt - configurational level
Gupta, 2012, Own compilation
39. How did it happen:
The journey…..
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES FOR
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS
(www.SRISTI.org) info@sristi.org
GRASSROOTS INNOVATION AUGMENTATION
NETWORK (www.GIAN.org)
NATIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION
(www.NIFindia.org) info@nifindia.org
anilg@sristi.org
The Honey Bee Network, an informal global grassroots social
movement, begun in 1987-88,
40. Creativity counts
Knowledge matters
Innovations transform
Incentives inspire
( not just individual, but also collective, not just material,
but also non-material)
Join the Honey Bee Network!
For rewarding indigenous creativity and innovation
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