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How to start a voluntary node of the Honey Bee Network |
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A nameless faceless innovator gets the support of the network, gets an identity |
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"e are very keen to establish voluntary nodes of the Honey Bee Network in different schools, colleges, companies, NGOs, villages, districts, countries, etc., to spread the philosophy of the Network. Idea is that whatever we learn from creative people in the informal sector at grassroots or formal sectors like industrial shop- floor, or school teachers, or workers etc., we acknowledge the contributors. But when some intermediaries help in reaching the original innovator or traditional knowledge holder, or conservator of biodiversity or other natural resources, we should acknowledge their contribution too. The ordinary people who solve problems through their own efforts in various sectors need respect, recognition, reward, and a warm relationship with each other. Existing collaborators of the Network will mentor new nodes and thus help in fostering the spirit of the Network.
You can help in forging such relationship: we need active volunteers who wish to start a HBN node in any state of India or any other country. We can have more than one or two or even ten collaborators in one state. All existing collaboraors are very inclusive and collaborative. It is not just the task of scouting and dissemination that collaborators can do, they can also help in adding value in local innovations in their labs and workshops, they can augment design, they can make apps to seek, spread, and celebrate innovations or share a problem that has defied local solution. A school/college teacher who documents educational innovations, creative ideas of children or college students and documents unmet social needs can be a collaborator. They are many such teachers who have hosted children creativity workshops, organised shodhsankal workshops, that is, the workshops of experimenting farmers, teachers, youth, workers, labourers etc. Some of the activities that these node take up:
a) Visiting villages, slums, workshops, repair shops in cities, women groups, or other processing or other
clusters to look for creative people, traditional knowledge holders, practices, ideas, incremental, derivative or disruptive radical innovations;
b) Sharing the creative ideas among those who may be facing similar problems, help build a horizontal network of problem solvers, innovators in education, technology, institutions or cultural domains; set up local language version of honey bee newsletters with fifty percent local content and remaining content from other regions;
c) Sharing with knowledge providers whatever we do on their ideas in local language with an easily understandable progress report of value addition by us,
d) Help in the validation and value addition in local knowledge, ideas and innovative pedagogies, herbal or nutritious food formulations, or agricultural, animal, human, microbial leads;
e) If any commercial opportunities emerge based on people’s knowledge, we have to ensure that local innovators)UZA get fair and just return of the income generated through their knowledge; explore market mediated model of poverty alleviation, empowerment of women, workers and local communities;
f) Help in organizing shodhyatras, a walk through the villages/towns to learn, share and gratefully seek blessing from centenarians, and other elders; document and write life histories of those who have lived happily for 90-100 or more years. They have a legitimate right to advise how a healthy long life can be achieved.
g) Create open-source knowledge bases for democratizing access to frugal, extremely affordable, open innovations
h) Where needed, help local innovators seek IP protection on their innovations but not to use this IP protection to prevent people to people learning. Help establish Technology Commons to encourage and allow people to people copying and improvements. But at the same time ensure that people to firm or companies, knowledge, or IP transfer takes place through the licensing route.
i) Expand databases on grassroots innovations, ideas of children, educational innovations, creative common property institutions; engineering/biotechnological or other projects by students and recognize them through GYTI Awards( Gandhian Young Technological Innovation); see gyti.techpedia.in or techpedia.sristi. org;
j) Set up HBN innovation clubs in companies, colleges, schools, communities, etc.,
k) Link corporations, communities, policy makers, public administrators, industrialists etc., to take ideas forward for inclusive development in society
l) Organize idea contests among school and out of school children; workers and professionals, We have started two competitions for inclusive innovations:
m) Document and Share folk stories which encourage the younger generation to feel responsible for the conservation of nature and frugal use of resources available to us;
n) two competitions are organized every year, one in which anyone (teachers, parents, professionals, college students) can send innovative ideas or product or service at HBNCRIIA@honeybee.org and for children ignitedminds@honeybee.org or ignite@honeybee.org
This note is a response to a question i have often been asked during my interaction with self-inspired people I meet around the world. Pl share it with those who you think are looking at an opportunity to join hands with the Network.
There is a lot more that each node has to do selflessly and with open heart and mind, inclusively without any prejudice against any social group or minority or disadvantaged people or non-human sentient beings.
Looking forward to hear from hbn volunteers around the country and the world!
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Honey Bee, 30(2) ,5-6, 2019 |
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