I happened to meet several groups of young students and scholars in NIT and IIT’s during last week. One of the concern I have is that large number of very bright young technological and management students ( science students seem to suffer less from this problem) get easily distracted by messages and notifications on which … Continue reading
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How to Volunteer? : Voluntering for an Inclusive Innovation Movement
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 … Continue reading
Remembering Dr.Kalam…. by celebrating his birthday as Children Creativity and Innovation day!!
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. https://www.facebook.com/648945252/videos/10157639315775253/ Continue reading
Calling Young Technovators for Innovation Awards
If a wheel chair bound person has to travel a long distance, the general choice will be to board a means of transport with somebody’s assistance and to get a wheel chair at the destination to continue the journey. Ajit, Tanmay, Ramkrishna and Nikhil, four students from Pune designed a three wheeler which a wheelchair … Continue reading
Scaling up social innovations/technologies: cook in cast iron vessel to overcome anemia
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 … Continue reading
Are we ready to welcome good monsoon?
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 … Continue reading
Learning from a Healthy, happy and helpful culture: Goa Shodhyata – II
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 … Continue reading
37th shodhyatra: No colour is too much in Goa
A place where almost every house in rural areas tends to be different in colour and architecture, diversity is deeply embedded in culture. One of the shodhyatris was too tired yesterday after a long walk in summer. Chetan, the coordinator of the yatra requested a mobyke riding youth to please stop and consider giving him … Continue reading
Just An hour a week; opening the doors for an innovator
I am just returning form talks meeting of alumni of all the IIMS viz., IIMIMPACT held at Singapore. One of the question most of the alumni asked was ”how can they join the Honey Bee Network (HBN), how can they contribute to the inclusive innovation ecosystem, what is the role that an expert, who is … Continue reading
Will 2016 be different for innovation-based startups?
When the whole world looking at Indian renaissance as a sign of hope for pulling the global economy out of recession, the policy ambivalence is difficult to understand. In the year about to pass, several initiatives took shape. But a very few could get concretized. One good example is that of BIRAC [Biotechnology Industry Research … Continue reading
