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"Insights on grassroots innovation
Ria Agarwal
rachita.agrwal@gmail.com
First off, I would like to thank you for giving us such gifts - shodh yatras, your insights on grass roots innovation and the like.
My introduction to you was via the shodhyatra conducted by Brig. Ganeshan. It was an eye opener. And i made some really good friends.
I am rereading your book on grassroots innovative. A friend runs “The repair cafe” hyderabad chapter on WhatsApp. It has been very helpful in connecting tinkerers and helping keep the landfills a little lighter.
I was thinking why not create a network that the grass roots innovators can tap into. A simple WhatsApp group with multiple offshoot. I would love to help out. Take the initiative.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
(I would add you to HBN volunteer group but it is not the same as what you describe
Please take Initiative & try to network with less known or even unknown experimenters & explorers - the words I prefer though tinkerer is fine too but many GRI are beyond just tinkering
Bring in young students too who can spread the HBN philosophy you have so well absorbed from Brig Ganesham. Thanks for writing back: Eds.)
Dear Team Honey Bee Network
Anamoy Ranjan
anamoy.ranjan@gmail.com
The Newsletter is a piece of art !
I was very happy to read such a lucidly written, well detailed, tightly organized document. I just wish I had read the back issues as part of my ROLT, rather than some of the research papers based on Scopus keyword search! I went through all of what was written, barring “Shoulder Shields” as I do not understand agriculture, and would like to keep a sharp focus on my domain. I read the dozen stories of Innovators with interest, and saw all the videos. I was certainly encouraged by their stories of success.
So far as feedback on the issue is concerned, I hope the newsletter can have: a section on Innovations that are scaling, to bring stories of success from around the country, and infuse the community with positive energy, another section where a few questions related to difficulties being faced in scaling up can be answered, or , a brief essay on an aspect of scaling up that is chosen by the editorial board , and written by an expert panel, and brief case studies of innovations that have scaled. In any voluntary effort, the question might arise on who would do this, and I would be happy to contribute to these.
I do look forward to a longer discussion with all of you on several aspects of the challenges that are faced by the informal sector GIs, and the possible solutions that can be designed in the upcoming Shodhyatra.
(Thanks Anamoy, it is a good suggestion, we also wish to highlight such stories though we strongly believe that scale should not be enemy of sustainability. Diverse ways of meeting local niche specific needs matter! Pl try your hand at developing a couple of stories: Eds.)
AI @ Grassroot level
Jasdeep Lamba
jdu33@yahoo.com
As AI is going to change the way we see, look and percieve world around us very soon, if not already at many aspects.... How is Honey Bee helping at grass root level to upgrade people or doing researches or teaching / researching on that aspect.... Does honey bee also consider it necessary and accept the change and challenges the world especially India at grassroots level is going to face and many innovations seems obsolete or outdated, in the eye of AI storm which is about to unfold ... In front of all of us.... ?
(AI like any other tool will work as well or badly as the user may wish. Do we expect that those who neglected many community needs will start developing the tools/techniques for them because AI tools are available? We are very conscious of the AI potential and pitfalls. Many tribal women still don’t have a good flexible nut cracker for taking kernel out of mahua seeds, let us hope AI will enable making of such Nut Crackers soonest! Incidentally, we have a database of one million abandoned US patents at GIAN.org for training a good AI tool which may indeed help in inclusive design: Eds.)
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