Most of us think of Siberia either for the cranes which fly from there every year for India or for the dissidents who were sent there during communist rule. But now we will have an additional reason to think of Siberia. And that is the distinction of being Russia’s first node of the Honey Bee Network … Continue reading
Self-cleaning molecular material is one of the good examples of innovation on the Technological Edge that was awarded at the 2013 Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award. Thankfully, such innovations are no longer ignored. It is this dream of pursuing and promoting hi-tech and mass impact innovations that incubation centres should pursue. We will regularly update such … Continue reading
A workshop on Grassroots Innovation was held at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) on March 15, 2013, where Riya Sinha Chokkakula, a senior member of the Honey Bee Network and a doctoral student, presented her findings to the innovators from whom she had collected data for her doctoral research. Innovators and derivative innovators of … Continue reading
We will have a workshop on Grassroots Innovation tomorrow at IIMA in which a senior colleague and doctoral student Ms Riya Sinha Chokkakula will share findings of her research with the providers of knowledge and scientist, users, derivative innovators and other stakeholders involved in scouting or diffusion of those innovations. Every research study ideally should … Continue reading
The former President of India, Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil expressed a deep interest in the innovations presented at the Seventh Biennial National Awards for Grassroots Innovation and Outstanding Traditional Knowledge. On 7th March, 2013, she invited the innovators to her Tughlak Lane residence. She interacted with all the innovators, carefully listening to their individual stories and … Continue reading
On 8th March, 2013, a shodhyatra follow up meeting took place in Delhi during the Grassroots Innovation Exhibition at Mughal Gardens. Around 20 regular and new Yatris joined in to discuss progress and ideas for the follow up activities of the recent shodhyatra in Manipur as well as the coming shodhyatra in Maharashtra. In the … Continue reading
On March 7, 2013, the Seventh National Award function for Grassroots Innovations and Outstanding Traditional Knowledge was held at Mughal Gardens, New Delhi. The National Awards were given away by Hon’ble President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee. A total of 68 innovators/traditional knowledge holders and five communities were awarded and appreciated in the award function. … Continue reading
Today, the Biennial National Grassroots Innovation Awards, held in Mughal Gardens, goes into its seventh round. In his speech, Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that we are in a decade of innovation that needs prudent solutions to persistent problems. The President pointed out that the state indeed cares for knowledge-rich but unknown people of this country. … Continue reading
SRISTI in collaboration with ILO announces a competition to find innovative ideas and technologies for the elimination of child labour There are a number of occupations that are hazardous and in which child labour is strictly prohibited. However, there are still instances where children are employed in such occupations. Some of the reasons are: For … Continue reading
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