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"Bringing frugal innovations to Thailand
Dr. Faiz Shah, Director
Yunus Center AIT, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok-Thailand, fshah@ait. asia, Efaizshah@gmail.com
What a pleasure to welcome you to this year’s SBD in Bangkok. I must confess, the YCA team weren’t as considerate a host as we would like it to be, given the breakneck pace of the program. But the few moments we did have for discussion were enlightening as usual.
I hope there will be occasion to meet again soon, in Thailand or perhaps in India. Meanwhile, the YCA team and I look forward to being in touch. Please let us know whenever you are in Bangkok, and we’d be delighted to show you our campus.
(We will be very keen to explore the possibility of building a layer of inclusive and frugal innovations from and for grassroots applications at AIT. We will share our entire public domain database of innovations by children ( nifindia.irg/ignite), students (techpedia.sristi.org and gyti.techpedia.in), farmers (honeybee.org), teachers (inshodh. org) and in due course governance too, also see creativity@grassroots blog Hopefully, similar scouting, spawning and sustaining activities will emerge in various regions where you and your colleagues have influence, we will support these through gian.org, honeybee.org and Sristi. org GIAN has signed a MOU with UNDP India and we will be developing a global partnership with UNDP in NY tomorrow. I thought of thanking you once again and explore this idea when we are launching our network in 78 countries through UNDP innovation acceleration labs in 60 places. –Ed.)
Samvedna to Solution, how?
Nehal Baradia
I am pursuing my under-graduation from IIT Delhi. I am have been truly inspired on seeing your energy even at the age of 67. I am just 18, but perhaps am not as energetic as you are. I understood that empathy without action is like a body without soul as I tend to sleep over it. Sir, I would like to join your summer school and try to convert my samvedna into solution. Thank you once again for invigorating me.
(Acknowledging one’s mistakes is the first step in finding a solution. Don’t worry about the past and focus on the future. We have got to look forward to the future through the lens of empathy so as to create a better future for ourselves and future generations. If not, we’ll only be regretting at not being
Able to fulfil the potential God has given us. Make sure to be a part of the Summer School. Be in touch! -Ed.)
Volunteering to further the philosophy of Honey Bee Network
GovindaRaj A
IIMA 2003-05 batch govindaraj.a@gmail.com
I am honoured to get back in touch with you after all these years. I was a student at IIMA PGDM 2003-05 and was privileged to be a part of your Shodhyatra in 2004.
Currently, I am in Mumbai at Vodafone Idea Limited and cover Strategy and Marketing for our enterprise B2B unit.
I have been reflecting a bit on my contribution back to the community and areas of further part time study. While the thoughts are firming up on Indian folklore and Indian Vedas as courses I would like to pursue, I am intrigued by the ground level innovation or Jugaad. The intrigue comes from some projects I led in my professional capacity leveraging the power of technologies and working with partners - Solar enabled rural electrification, payment solutions, electric vehicle innovation etc. All these made me realise that I need to build a far better and deeper understanding of our communities, innovations and models. I am really keen to be associated with Honeybee network as a volunteer to begin with, conscious that the real ‘Why’ still needs to be answered. As a starter I could bring to the table - Online volunteering, Offline volunteering in Mumbai, bridge/mentor entrepreneurs in the domains where i could exploit my experience and understanding.
Kindly let me know how one could begin associating with you and Honeybee Network which I am looking forward to.
(I am sorry that despite my best efforts, sometimes I slip and fail to respond to such wonderful emails like yours in time. There are many ways in which you could contribute and also learn:
a) we meet many creative children during our Shodhyatra and we wish to develop a mentoring platform for them so that they are not lost if one person tracks the progress of one creative child by a weekly call, b) we need to reinvent our sites and make them more user-friendly c) the databases need to be made more accessible and easily searchable and a lot more.
Grassrots Innovations are very often well deliberated and designed in response to an unmet need. Hence, we donot use the word ""jugaad "" for them. Jugaad is a makeshift transient solution and may not take us far.all the best and welcome to Honey Bee Network)
Globalising local solutions
Many thanks for engaging with the Honey Bee Network. We greatly appreciate your interest because we need passionate people like you to spread this philosophy and transform the lives of knowledge-rich economically poor people.
(Surely we will be in touch. Do see my blog anilg.sristi.org and stay engaged with Honey Bee Network. I will request Anamika, CEO GIAN, also to share her thoughts when possible; she might visit UK soon and then can explain more in person. all the best. -Ed.)
TED talk!
Preetam Singh Heeramun psheeramun@gmail.com
I trust your week has been progressing well and you are having a nice weekend. I am contacting you after recently coming to your TED talk and great book on grassroots innovation.
I am originally from the island of Mauritius and have been living and working in the UK for a number of years after I finished my university studies in engineering here. I have had the opportunity to work in R&D and innovation across different industry sectors, mainly involved in developing ideas into projects as well as creating the right culture, tools and processes to allow new and potential innovators to thrive.
I have been really inspired by the initiatives you have pioneered with the Honey Bee Network and SRISTI. I also read a paper you recently shared on Linkedin about the work you have been doing in Africa. I am also personally keen on how different innovation eco-systems are setup and work across the world and the opportunity for knowledge sharing and cross-fertilisation of ideas and best practice. I wish you well and thank you so much for inspiring me! Have a great weekend, I look forward to an opportunity to discuss.
(Very happy to learn about your interest: Ed)
Interest in opening a HBN branch in Namibia
Paulina N. Alfeus alfeuspaulina2@gmail.com
I am Paulina N. Alfeus, the co-founder and Managing Director of Power Six
Investment. We met at the Namibian Innovation Conference that took place from the February 6-8, 2019 in Windhoek. We are in a business of making furnitures from up-cycling oil drums. I have gone through your Honey Bee Network, which really inspires me and I believe it is the best platform to pursue/ work on uncultivated talents deep down most Namibian communities. It is for this reason I am writing to you, with an interest of implementing the same network as your Honey Bee Network in Namibia. My country has been facing worst economic crisis leading to a higher rate of unemployment and long drought spells due to poor rainfall over the years. I personally believe that the country cannot rescue itself from such crisis, unless if us the youth come together and join hands to make change and create a social impact, and I believe it can be done through the same network.
The biggest problem our country is facing currently is that, people with different skills and knowledge tend to work in isolation which leads to no greater achievements. However if people could work together, help gather great innovations and talents in our community, will help solve the big miscommunication between what community people can do and what the government believe will work best for the people, in essence improving their current talents and innovations for them to efficiently work. I have a dream of helping and empowering others, that is why I believe that having to help our innovators get recognition for their hard work, get our grassroots innovations recorded, filed and link people and ideas will inspire many to start making a social impact too, thus helping the country grow. My idea is to inherit the Honey Bee Network in Namibia, as a branch from your main Network, with the same vision and mission and inherit the same Honey Bee’s culture, norms and values.
The reason I do not want to create something new is because am also an innovator and if someone see potential in my idea in another country, I would like for them to inherit it as it is, which I believe will keep it real and follow all its method and for it not to lose its meaning. You can be the master mind behind the whole Idea in Namibia, you inaugurate it and we work hard towards making it a success. My plan is that the idea is run as a Non-Profit organization, with a group of youth with different knowledge and skills, those willing to empower others and make a social impact from different ethnic groups in all fourteen (14) regions of the country. I have decided on this with the reason that they can better explain the network to the community people in their native languages, which creates some sense of trust or connection. We can meet up and discuss how to put the idea to work with the team I have identified and also look at which possible institution to approach for help. We aim to rightfully copy and paste an existing structure and I believe you as the founder will love to be our president, where we will still be reporting to the headquarters in India.
I will therefore like to ask if it is possible to inherit the same Idea in Namibia. Will you be able to help us and give us the right to inherit and make use of your innovation with the exact intention you created it for Indians and the world at large? If this is possible, how do I go about it, how do we qualify for such rights? I, as the initiator or the proposer of this Network am ready to comply with all the rules, terms and conditions that come with the Honey Bee Network Rights if we are fortunate to own one in our country.
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Honey Bee, 30(2) ,21-22, 2019 |
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