can children creativity influence public policy? yes indeed, children are not sink of sermons, but also source of ideas Print 'Wash your hands' on every lunch box when have we seen so much policy traction for an idea of knowledge-rich, economically poor girl child in our country? Thanks and congratulations to Ms Maneka Gandhi, Minister of women and child Welfare, Union Government, for appreciating the idea of Shireen and taking it up for urgent implementation at the highest level. If there were more ministers paying attention to grassroots ideas and creativity, India can transform faster than ever before, hope PMO India is listening This idea was spotted in a children's creativity workshop organised by Sristi Ahmedabad as a part of Festival of Innovation (FOIN) Rashtrapati Bhavan with the support of ‪#‎UNICEF‬, National Innovation Foundation - India and ‪#‎gian‬ Honey Bee Network IIM Ahmedabad Anamika Dey Chetan V Patel Techpedia.in : students, start-ups, society Innovations at Grassroots/ ICCIG @agakhanfoundation This will also be processed in Ignite competition by National Innovation Foundation - India for ‪#‎manak‬ and Inspire program of DST also see my new book new book on grassroots Innovation, Penguin Random House, New Delhi, 2016 http://www.amazon.in/Grassroots-Innovation-Minds-Margin-Marginal/dp/8184005873

1. Creative Children,
compassionate comunities
From sink of sermons to source of ideas
anil k gupta,
iima, SRISTI, Honey bee network
iim
Iima & sristi

2. Honey Bee Network
1987-1988
A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional
knowledge holder comes into contact with the
Network and gets an identity,
voice, visibility and viability
of its sustainable vision .

3. What are the resourcesin which economically poor people, youth
and children are potentially rich ??
Why can not wegive children’s creativity a fair chance?
Chhaya Thakor, class 7

4. Penury is often not much patient,
inclusive development is possible
Doors exist, we just have to open
Sink to source, is the only option

5. Innovator
Oscillates
between
strategy and serendipity
Getting the Presidents Office
involved in spreading the gospel
of inclusive innovation
Uncertain market may still resist
taming

6. The President of India honours grassroots innovators, launches
National Innovation Clubs and hosts an innovation exhibition at the
President’s house; hosts Festival of Innovation (FOIN)
Initiative to Institutionalization: Policy

7. Ahmad Raza, an extremely cheerful class 4 student
from SDMC Primary Pratibha Vidhyalaya, Nizamuddin
West, Delhi came up with the idea of collecting
disposable cups. A box normally holds 150 cups,
Raza’s idea can take up to 750 .
Ahmed Raza, Nizammudd
Claass 4, The Festival of Innovation, Children
creativty Camp, The President of India house

8. Sheeren Sheikh , a class 5
“print on lunch box: Wash your hands before and after eating”

9. Prof. Gupta interacting with the children by telling stories at the
creativity workshop held at Rashtrapati Bhavan during the
Festival of Innovations (March 7-13, 2015).

10. Affan Siddiqui, a class 9 student from The Indian School, Josip Broz Tito Marg, New Delhi, observed that normally public
water taps have only one opening to draw water and people have to wait in a long queue for their turn. So he suggested
an innovative approach to water supply by attaching pipes to the main tap like ‘tap-root system’, so that everyone is able
to receive water. He also suggested knee caps for people who cannot walk and do not have the proper equipment for
walking and have to drag their bodies. He proposed the provision of cheap portable sewing machines to slum families for
making clothes for underprivileged children.

11. A public
innovation
for public use Jharkhand

12. Inclusive Innovations
How Do Grassroots Innovators Overcome
Exclusion ?
• Dimensions of Inclusion
– Spaces
– Sectors
– Seasons: stable to fluctuating
– Social segments
– Skills and knowledge

13. Saidullah, 75, Amphibious cycle

14. Sectoral inclusion
• Sectoral neglect or exclusion is typical when certain activities
don’t command as much demand as these did in the long past.
Handloom and khadi is one such sector.
• Does an innovation expand opportunities in a neglected sector,
say food processing to avoid waste, conserve more, benefit from
good season and avoid distress sale? Dharamveer’s food
processing machine being diffused in Kenya ( sristi.org/usaid)

15. Multi-purpose food processing
machine: Dharamveer

16. Andhra Pradesh Meghalaya
Mizoram
Energy: Do we
harness it
efficiently?

17. Energy: waste heat
recovery/usage
DHRUV: GANDHINAGAR,
A REFRIGERATOR WHICH GIVES MORE FOR
LESS

18. Low Cost Wind mill
Mehtar Hussain and
Mushtaq Ahmad, Assam
Over 35 units installed in
salt farming regions of
New heuristics: maximizing output per unit of time and smoothening the flow are
not always sustainable Innovation by Mehtar Husain and Mushtaq Ahmed from
Assam to Gujarat
Jus
t
70
Eur
o
Stronger,
durable
version, 900
euro, saves
diesel worth
700 euro in
one season of

19. Frugal
Flexible
Friendly
Elegant

20. The former President awarded children innovators every year at the
IGNITE Award function by NIF at IIMA, now these awards are renamed as
Dr AP J Abdul Kalam Ignite awards to be given by The President of India,
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Nov, 2015
Initiative to Institutionalisation

21. Posture correcting chair/Sensor
Kulsoom Rizvi, 5, Muzaffarnagar , UP & Tarun Anand, 10, Hardoi, & UP Sunvi Agarwal,
10, Gurgaon, Haryana
If a person is sitting on the chair in a wrong posture, an alarm will start ringing
and not stop until the person corrects the posture. Else, a camera in computer
device or TV screen will sense posture and cover the display with a message, “sit
properly before u can work”

22. Modified walker with adjustable legs
Shalini Kumari
Bihar
Shalini’s grandfather uses a walker to assist him
while he walks. But she noticed that he could only
use the walker comfortably while walking on a level
surface. Shalini came up with the idea of the
modified walker with adjustable legs. She has also
thought of including a folding seat so that the user
can rest for a while when required and fitted a horn
and a light to it as well. NIF licensed this technology
to a company recently

23. Frugal Innovation: Shalini Kumari, Class 8, Patna, Bihar, Licensed
to a company, Avira Tech
NIF engaged a design firm
to develop a prototype
Empathetic innovations: learning from children

24. Low cost Braille printer
Santosh Singh & Khushwant Rai, 12, Jalandhar, Punjab
Braille printer exists in the market but at a price range that an ordinary
man cannot afford. For this they have extended the functionalities of
dot matrix printer with some modification to make economical printer
which cost around Rs 10000/- against the market price of about a lakh.

25. Arnab, west bengal

26. Teen darwaza
Problem
No protection of stalls from
rain.
Solution suggested by
Shirin
Shirin
Designed a cart with
compressible roof which
can be closed during
rains
Observation
When asked a lady
working at dumping yard
about her problem, she
replied that we should try to
ask the process and not the
problems.
Problem
Had to carry the fish
containing box by hand.
Solution: Install wheels in
fish box.

29. Mir Ki Toli, waste bottel cutters
Problem
No school, no teachers
SOLUTION SUGGESTED
BY ASHNA:
Edu-watch
Problem
Women used to collect
deodorant bottles and remove
the caps with stones. When
they remove the cap gas
comes out and continuous
usage of stone is strenuous.
The collect the metal body and
sell it.
Solution: Design a metal
cutter which is cost
effective and reduces
efforts.

30. Potters wheel: will design
change
Problem
Mixing machine –To mix clay and saw-
dust
Posture problem faced during painting and
decorating the products
Breaking the huge chunk of the soil
For eliminating the
problems due
to bending ,we can make
this
type of arrangement.

31. Cleaning the clay
Solution suggested by Shirin
Make a series of sieve through
which mixture and mud is
sieved and the same water can
be recycled

34. Shall we take notice of
innovation only when it falls
out of place?

35. Innovations and traditional
knowledge
InvestmentEnterprise
GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF
CREATIVITY

36. Reducing ex ante and ex poste
transaction costs
• Risk averse institutions will not meet risk
averse communities ever
• Make investor, innovator and
entrepreneurs visible to each other, shake
hands and engage. Some of the UNICEF apps are doing
precisely that, reducing transaction costs of working together
• Clearing houses, DIY (do it yourself) kits,
• Rapid fabrication, quick deployment, and
redesign—autopoeisis

37. • Entrepreneurial approach to designing
innovation agenda implies taking risk,
making imperfect beginnings a credo,
perfectionists, leting those who improve it
incrmeentally have prid eof ownership of
policy or program,

38. Mind to market:
the case of herbavate

39. Herbvate: a skin ointment
It is based on the knowledge of seven innovators from six districts
Sabarkanth, Panchmahal, Dang, Mahsana, Patan and Bhavnagar of
Gujarat. Herbavate exhibits remarkable properties against eczema and
variety of inflammatory and infectious skin conditions.
Communities: The innovators of Herbavate: 1. Amratbhai Shankarbhai
Rawal, Mehsana Gujarat. 2. Kunjubhai Kakadiyabhai Bhoya, Dang
Gujarat 3. Pujabhai Dabhi, Sabarkantha, Gujarat 4. Karshanbhai
Parmar, Sabarkantha Gujarat 5. Laxmanbhai Pagi, Panchmahal,
Gujarat 6. Lilabhai Rawal, Patan Gujarat 7. Lakhabhai Becharbhai
Khatana, Bhavnagar Gujarat

41. www.techpedia.in
• a portal by SRISTI (sristi.org) pooling 200,000
engineering projects by 550k students from
over 600 institutions
• engaging with youth to learn, share and co-
create

42. Real Time Wound Management System Wound Segmentation &
Analysis Using Image Processing On Mobile Platform (Android)
Innovator : Abhiraj Gupta
College : Manipal Institute Of Technology

43. •Diffusion Of Mobile Technology Presents Numerous Opportunities To
Bend Healthcare Cost Curve.
• He has Designed/developed World's First Smart Phone App Which
Tracks/identifies The Wound Size, Healing/management Process
Based On Images Captured/processed Within A Smart Phone.
• Therefore This Automated Mobile-based System For Fast And
Accurate Segmentation And Identification Of Wounds Is Desirable,
Both From The Standpoint Of Improving Health Outcomes In Chronic
Wound Care, And In Making Clinical Practice Efficient And Cost-
effective For People In Remote Areas And Cities.

44. Flexicast: A Breathable, Washable And Customized Cast
For Immobilization Of Fractured Limb
Innovator : Nikhil Jamdade
Team Members : Dr. Pankaj Chhatrala,
Devanshi Saksena
College : IIT Kanpur

45. •The Flexicast Innovation Relates To The Field Of Orthopaedic Casting
System For Immobilizing And Supporting Fractured Body Part.
•The Flexicast Innovation Relates To The Field Of Orthopaedic Casting
System For Immobilizing And Supporting Fractured Body Part.
•Traditional Casts Are Heavy, Uncomfortable And Subject To Degradation
By Water And Sweat. This Often Makes Bathing And Other Activities
Difficult And /or Impossible For The Wearer.
•Flexicast Prevents Infection By Maintaining Skin Hygiene. It Is Also
Radiolucent. Cost Of Flexicast Is Comparable To Fiberglass Cast. So Flexicast
Provides A Cost Effective Casting System Which Comprises All The Above
Technical Advantages.

46. Rightbiotic : The Fastest Antibiotic Finder
Innovator : Shivani Gupta
Team Members : Dv Padmavathi, Anuradha Pal
College : Bits Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

47. •The Current Technology Presents An Ultra-rapid Test For Determining
Antibiotic Sensitivity Of Pathogens Found In Human Urine Leading To
UTI. This Novel Technology, Developed By Us, Replicates The Basic
Tenets Of Clinical Microbiology, Namely
1) Growth Of Bacteria In A Specialized Medium And
2) Measuring The Inhibition Of Growth Of Bacteria In The Presence Of
An Antibiotic.
• Detection is Based On Chromogenic Endpoints Which Are Measured
Using A Set Of Optical Sensors. The Output Is Analyzed Using Lab-
developed Algorithm Based Software Which Reports The Sensitivity
Of The Pathogen To The Panel Of Antibiotics Tested.
•The Display On The Screen Shows The Results In Terms Of Sensitivity,
Moderate Sensitivity Or Resistance To Any Given Antibiotic.
Sensitivity And Specificity Of The New Test For Measuring Antibiotic
Susceptibility Was Found To Be 0.94 And 0.97, Respectively.

48. •The Results Of Ast Using The New Test Are Available In 3 Hours As
Compared To 48-72 Hours Taken For Conventional Culture Results
(based On Kirby-baeur Disc Method). Availability Of This Rapid
Assay Will Completely Obliterate The Need For Empirical Treatment
In Case Of UTI And Lead To Specific And Most Appropriate
Treatment At The Earliest.
•The Components Of The Technology Include: In-house Developed
Medium (bitgen) For Rapid Growth Of Uropathogens. A Specially
Fabricated Readout Device, Which Gives An Alphanumeric Display
On A LCD Screen. Pre-functionalized Panel In Strip Format Allowing
Screening For Multiple Antibiotics.

49. Development Of A Powerful New Antibiotic That Kills All
Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Innovator : Venkateswarlu Yarlagadda
Team Members : Jayanta Haldar, Goutham B
Manjunath, Akkaapeddi Padma
College : Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For
Advanced Scientific Research (jncasr)

50. •Compared To Known Antibiotics Such As Vancomycin , Efficacy Greater
Than 1000-fold Was Demonstrated Against Vancomycin-resistant
Enterococci (vre). Further, These Compounds Went On To Display
Excellent Efficacy Against Carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative
Bacterial Clinical Isolates.
• New Compound Was Shown To Kill Bacteria Rapidly At Low
Concentrations, And Did Not Induce Bacterial Resistance. An Optimized
Compound In The Series, Showed Very High Activity In Methicillin-
resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (mrsa) Infected Mouse Model And
Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (vrsa) Infected Mouse
Model, Exhibited Improved Pharmacological Properties And
Demonstrated Superior Antibacterial Activity In Whole Blood.
• Their Impressive Activity Is Credited To Their Additional Mechanism Of
Disrupting The Bacterial Cell Membrane Integrity (membrane
Depolarization, Intracellular K+ Ion Leakage And Membrane
Permeabilization) Into Vancomycin And Opens Up A Great Opportunity
For The Development Of Life Saving Antibiotics.

52. Redefined Spoon For Parkinson's Patient
Innovator : Dhyey Mayankkumar Shah
Team Members : Eepsit Tiwari, Rajesh
Patidar
College : Iit Gandhinagar

53. •It Is Essential To Have A Balanced Food Intake To Lead An Energetic
Life And Faster Recovery. Also Parkinson’s Disease Is Very Common
Among The Old People Who Prefer Liquid And Semi-liquid Food. After
Talking To The Patients, Their Caretakers And The Doctors, Due To
Tremor And The Embarrassment Of Food Spillage Off The Spoon Due
To Tremors While Eating Patients Tend To Lose Motivation Of Eating
And Also Develop A Sense Of Dependability Over Others.
•Products (like Google’s Liftware Costs Around $300) Available In
Market Are Either Too Costly Or Demand A Habit Change From The
Users Which Make Them Feel Odd While Eating In A Social Gathering.
• Our Solution Is A Redefined Spoon Which Is Both Cost Effective And
Convenient To Use, That Allows Patients To Hold It Without Changing
Their Normal Eating Position.
•From Our Research, The Major Problem With These Patients Is That
They Can’t Exert A Pointed Force Due To Their Inability Of Performing
& Controlling Micro Motions Of Their Fingers. Our Product Prevents
Food Spillage In A Completely Mechanical Way Via A Lid-trigger
Mechanism Which Works In A Way That The Patient Can Achieve
Significant Displacement By Pressing The Trigger Very Slightly.

54. •We Have Identified These Problems Through Our Research And
Their Possible Solutions Using The Methodology Of Interaction
Design.
•Also We Validated The Product Using Autodesk Model And
Performed Simulations For The Functionalities Of Its Various Parts.
After Successful Simulations, We 3d Printed The Prototype Using
The Rapid Prototyping Machine Of IIT Gandhinagar.
•Generally, Parkinson’s Disease Once Occurred Becomes A Lifelong
Problem And It Becomes Excruciating For Them To Be Not Able To
Do Simple Day To Day Tasks Normally. By This Product We Hope To
Make The Lives Of Patients Suffering From Motion Disorders Easier
And Help Them Live Independently, Hence, Improving Their Self-
esteem.

55. Apparatus For Making Silk Fiber Based Lamellar Biomaterials To
Solve Problem Of Lower Back Pain
• Student Team : Maumita Bhattacharjee ,Maumita Bhattacharjee
• Supervisor Name: Dr. Sourabh Ghosh. Prof. Alok R Ray
• College Name: Indian Institute Of Technology, IIT Delhi

56. • Millions of elderly people around the world are suffering
from a severe health issue of lower back pain whose prime
reason is the degeneration of Intervertebral disc (IVD)
present in our spinal column.
• These students have designed a rapid prototyped silk
winding machine using stepper motors of old tape recorder
and developed custom-made aligned silk fibrous scaffold
with a multilayered lamellar architecture at low cost and
fast speed.
• These silk scaffolds guide the alignment of cells and
deposition of ECM proteins to a stipulated angle in lamellar
fashion which provides tensile re-enforcement to withstand
the large circumferential tensile stresses during in vivo
compression of the intervertebral disc.

57. E-diagnoser An Advanced Low Cost Patient Monitoring Watch
• Student Team : Libin Varghese,pillai
Sareesh,shibinjoseph,adarsh.s,chithira Jacob,nithya Merin,anoop.p
,Pillai Sareesh
• Supervisor Name: Asst.prof.reshmi.v
• University: Mahatma Gandhi University,kottayam
• College Name: Amal Jyothi College Of Engineering

58. • Existing patient monitoring devices have been used
extensively in many areas of health care from the hospital
ICU to care at home. Although commercialized patient
monitors provide highly reliable data and many facilities
they are limited from users perspective.
• They are inconvenient i.e,
• 1)They are bulky and need to be connected to several electrodes to
measure various vital bio signals
• 2)They have poor mobility and restricted usage in hospital and
indoors
• 3)They are relatively expensive to be used all the time and hard for
poor people who cannot afford them .
• Due to these limitations, existing patient monitoring
systems are unsuitable when monitoring has to be
accomplished over periods of several weeks or months, as in
the case of elderly and patients at risk of potentially critical
events.
• So an integrated portable and wearable system would

59. Saral Parikshan - An Advancement In Cutting Edge Technology
For Rural Area To Detect Vitamin B12 For Pernicious Anemia
• Student Team : L. Sagaya Selva Kumar ,Prof. M.s. Thakur
• Supervisor Name: Prof. M.s. Thakur
• University: Mysore University
• College Name: Council Of Scientific & Industrial Research-central Food
Technological Research Institute (csir-cftri).

61. • This current innovation is the concept of simple, sensitive and
inexpensive visual colorimetric detection for vitamin B12.
• Aptamer-conjugated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) act as probes
which cause dramatic color change from red solution to blue.
Uniqueness is the visual detection of vitamin B12 using
inexpensive AuNPs as signal enhancer with duration of 15
minutes in analysis.
• The biosensor’s limit of detection was 100 mg/ml. The
researchers tested the efficacy of the biosensor using samples
containing vitamin B12. Natural RNA or DNA aptamer is nuclease
sensitive, therefore, nuclease resistant aptamer are generated for
biosensing application by replacing costly antibodies.
• Their method provides not only an alternative method to the
current lab detection, but also a way for early screening of
vitamin B12 as Yes or No, especially for clinical fields and looking
for possible alternative food sources for vitamin B12 for
developing countries. This concept can be applied by any person,
at home or in the field, to detect any contaminants, carcinogens
and hazardous materials in the food- clinical and environmental

62. Saral Parikshan - An Advancement In Cutting Edge Technology
For Rural Area To Detect Vitamin B12 For Pernicious Anemia
• The current innovation is the concept of
simple, sensitive and inexpensive visual
colorimetric detection for vitamin B12.
• Uniqueness is the visual detection of vitamin
B12 using inexpensive Aptamer-conjugated
gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as signal enhancer
with duration of 15 minutes in analysis.
• The biosensor’s limit of detection was 100
mg/ml.
• Their method provides not only an alternative
method to the current lab detection, but also
a way for early screening of vitamin B12 as
Yes or No, especially for clinical fields and
looking for possible alternative food sources
for vitamin B12 for developing countries.
By L. Sagaya Selva Kumar and
his Guide Prof. M.S. Thakur
Presented with GYTI 2013 Award

63. Microfluidic Immunosensor
• This device provides a reliable detection of
different biomarkers, specifically cancer, and for
other diseases.
• Research has been ongoing to develop diagnostic
biochips that can be used to efficiently analyze
least amount of sample in a short period of time.
• The available devices do not have many
integrated sensors, and have issues like cross
contamination, unstable temperature of the
substrate/reagents, non re-usability of the
microchips etc.
• The present invention relates to a lab-on-a-chip
(LOC) device and provides an Electrolyte Insulator
Semiconductor (EIS) based Microfluidic
Immunosensor, which measures the changes in
surface potential between the electrolyte (desired
analyte) and the sensing insulator by a shift in
capacitance-voltage (CV) curves.
• This shift is a direct representation of sensitivity
of the device from which quantification of a
particular disease marker (present in the sample)
can be obtained.
By Ramchander Chepyala, Satyendra Kumar,
Narendra Kumar, Bhanu Prakash with their
Presented with GYTI Award 2014

64. Touchpad For Malignant Tumour Epithelial Detection And
Imaging
• The system is a non-invasive and highly
portable method of malignant (cancerous)
tumour detection (differentiating it with
benign tumours) without biopsy within a
few seconds.
• Studies suggest that malignant tumour cells
have less potassium ions and more sodium
ions. Hence there is a difference in the
conductivity/dielectric properties between
cancerous and non-cancerous tumours.
• This device compares the conductivity and
dielectric properties of the tumour with the
normal cells and by analysing the
difference in dielectric properties
determines whether the tumour is
cancerous or not.
• An imaging system is also proposed using a
matrix of electrodes for easier visualization.
By Sritam Parashar Rout ,Sritam Parashar
Aditya Garg and Himanshu Gangwar
with the help of their guide Prof. Anoop J
Presented with GYTI Award in 2014

65. Paper And Pencil Micro Fluidic Device For Point-of-care
Diagnostics
• Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) kits are not
commonly available for many diseases
prevalent in developing countries. Even for
such kits, the test procedures can be labour
and time intensive, requiring expert
supervision all the time.
• The present paper-and-pencil diagnostic
device is low-cost miniaturized (due to the
innovative fabrication methodologies) and
efficient (high throughput rate and
multiplexable) device, which does not
require an elaborate infrastructure and
trained on-field pathologists through the
implementation of colorimetric quantitative
detection techniques (unlike the majority of
the available RDT kits which are qualitative
in nature).
By Ranabir Dey, Shantimoy Kar with th
Guide Prof. Suman Chakraborty
Presented with GYTI Award in 2014

66. Novel Algal Bioreactor For Wastewater Treatment And Biofuel
Lipid Production
• A continuous bioreactor for treating
wastewater with nutrient recovery and
biofuel production. This technique works on
bioremediation principle with appropriately
chosen algal consortia.
• The algal bioreactor is based on the three
phase plug flow design and is optimised to
work at variable flow rates. It results in over
90 per cent of nutrient removal and almost
complete pathogen removal.
• The uniqueness lies in the reactor
configuration, and selection of algal species
adapted to various redox environments.
Additionally, the rapid harvest of the
reactor by-product (valorised algal biomass)
yields bio-diesel with quality fatty acids
(C16-C18). By Durga Madhab Mahapatra with his g
Dr. T V Ramachandra And Dr. H N Chana
Presented with GYTI Award in 2014

67. Cost Effective Vegetable Chiller For Rural Small Farmers
• Large cold storage facilities for storage of
vegetables are out of reach and unaffordable for
the small and marginal farmers.
• The chiller is a cost effective and ultra-low energy
consuming storage device and consists of three
units i.e. evaporative cooler, sub cooler and a food
storage cabin.
• It uses Phase Change Material (PCM), which acts as
an effective medium of passive cooling system,
absorbing heat until it reaches its melting point
and changes its phase from solid to liquid.
• The device consumes power only for charging the
liquid PCM i.e. converting it back into solid state,
which can be done during night times (off-peak)
within 1-2 hours. Thus such food chillers can
efficiently operate in regions of interrupted grid
power supply as well.
By Vishnu Padmanaban
,M.ramesh Nachiappan and
S.Manikandaraj with their guide
Dr. ElangovanPresented with GYTI Award in 2014

68. Skills and Knowledge Inclusion
• Skills, which have lost market, are another source of
exclusion. When houses were made of mud or local
materials like lime and stones, the workers trained in
making the structures with those materials were in
demand. We have to find new applications of these skills
and new products using those skills to revive
the prospect of these communities.
• Mansukhbhai prajapati, a potter invented Mitti-cool, a
clay refrigerator to keep vegetables fresh for 5-6
days. He trained many more potters in making non-stick
clay pans. Increased demand for his goods and
services has revolutionized the potter business and
skills.

69. Creating
open source
standards
of excellence
Institutional
heuristics
Meghalaya

70. Gestalt of Sustainability

71. Meghalaya
Technology is like
words, institutions
are like
grammarand
culture is like
thesaurus
Three pillars of
sustainability

72. creativity, compassion, communication and collaboration
anil
Honey Bee Network
www.Sristi.org/anilg anilg@sristi.org
anilgb@gmail.com
www.nifindia.org
Techpedia.in
Autopoeisis at grassroots for
inclusive development
creativity, compassion,
communication and
collaboration

73. 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

74. Knowledge asymmetry in the
Network
Island
Low High
Synaptic
Interaction
Low
High
Insular
Inclusive Knowledge
System
Peer learning

75. Information/Knowledge/Wisdom
Innovation Playground
Inside out
High Low
High
Low
DBDB
Sponge
Pollinator ostrich
Outside in
Large heart, big mind,
Dil bada dimaag bada

76. Taxonomy of innovative solutions
• ASSURANCE
• high low
• high
• Capacity
• Low
bridging the
Need gap
need
enhancement
need
elimination
need
transformation

77. The'Woodlandplasticcity'
isaslumlocatedbehind
Woodlandmallhavingsome
migrantsfromZimbabwe
andruralareasofSouth
Africa.
Jonas Jacob Mabina
Plastic woodland mall, Pretoria, South Africa
Woodland plastic slum: Pretoria:
Art happens anywhere, even in slums, despite Maslow!!!!!

78. Meaningful insights: historical naaratives

79. Is she unskilled? How do we value subaltern art,
creativity and culture: does it have no value because
it is easily accessible, it is commonly shared
Bhabi mahato

80. Pointers towards persistence for
inclusive innovations
• A change not monitored is a change not desired
• In situ incubation is the mantra for distributed entrepreneurship and
manufacturing: need to go beyond centralized manufacturing,
decentralized consumption models
• The technologies traditionally used by women have undergone
slowest productivity change, focus on what they do helps children
the most of course; challenge awards to overcome their drudgery
• Overcoming inertia also requires institutional reformatting, cultural
contextualization; mere focus on technology would not be
sustainable
• Children are not just sink of sermons but also source of ideas : in
every refugee camp, crisis center, educational projects we will like
to have idea competition through local volunteers to make them
optimistic, engaged and be responsible for their/our shared frugal
future

81. • Five things that can change the way future will unfold
– Investors/entrepreneurs to leverage green innovations by
putting premium on low waste or no waste generation (e.g.
you could eat today’s lunch on banana leaf and with edible
cutlery made of millets).
– Hunger for innovations can be increased by monitoring the
new grassroots innovation tracked, supported and
disseminated in every sector regularly
– The irreverence and little bit of naiveté, so characteristic of
youth must be harnessed for triggering innovative solutions
for the unmet social needs; don’t use heavy/complex
matrices , and multiple meetings to screen ideas when there
are so few
– Distributed mentoring and in situ incubation and funding can
unleash the power of big minds in small cities and villages
– In situ value addition is a sin qua non for harnessing the
resource richness of most poor regions/co

82. Children matter
imagination fuels innovation
In situ incubation
nurtures young
enterpreneurs
Experiment never fails,
learning pays off
innovation playground
In every community
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