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"Anti-harassment footwear project from Panu Halder, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Panu Halder
Bilaspur Chhattisgarh nature_bodies_bms@yahoo.com
Christi George Anthony & Mohammad Sameer came up with the project ‘Anti-Harassment Sandals’ focussing on women safety. They presented the project at Jawaharlal Nehru National Level Science Exhibition held at Ahmedabad. India being known as ‘The World’s Most Dangerous Country for Women’ encouraged them to give birth to this ideas.
Description of project
Removal of the feeling of insecurity in women was the prime objective of the product and the convenience of using the footwear as a defensive weapon was the biggest innovation. Whenever a lady is eve-teased, she can use her sandal (footwear) to give an electric shock to the miscreant by pressing the button beneath the thumb of the foot completing the connection of the simple electric circuit like the ones used in a mosquito racket. The sandal is capable of sending an emergency alert to the police as well if the miscreant continues to assault.
This project could become a breakthrough innovation for building a ‘Society of Equals’. This project carries a lot of weight, thanks to its affordability.
Very nice of you to write and share interesting work of your students. I have shared it with ignite team of NIF and also with our team which organises summer school and children creativity workshop. Please convey my best wishes to the kids for thinking of such useful ideas, it might be useful to test it more, understand how false alarms through accidental press can be avoided, how can it be made robust. With best wishes. – Ed.
Collaboration with Honey Bee Network
Shannon Wilhite
scmwihite@gmail.com
Is there any way to acquire the on- line Honey Bee magazine?
I have done some work on preventing cultural appropriation and my husband is an organic farmer. We would both benefit from a connection with your organisation and love to reciprocate through collaboration (my husband is also a native bee expert) and I would love to learn more of how you are protecting information and keeping profits in the community.
The online newsletter is available at honeybee.org. we welcome contributions on local creativity for possible publication in HBN-Ed.
Gr assro ots innovati on Laboratory in Malawi
Aditi Ramdorai
aditi.ramdorai@gmail.com
I was thinking of connecting with you and now I finally have an opportunity for it. I had the pleasure of meeting William Kamkwamba, an innovator from Malawi in Berlin yesterday. Here is a Wikipedia article about him: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ William_Kamkwamba.
He is planning to setup a Grassroots Innovation laboratory in Malawi and I told him about you and your organisation. He wanted to know if you would have a chance to connect with him. Let me know if this is possible and I would send you both an email. He is a very inspirational young man and I am sure you would enjoy speaking with him. Otherwise, things are fine with me. I am on parental leave with my second child and enjoying the time off. Hope we get a chance to meet soon.
I have heard a lot about William and am very happy to connect with him.
I was in Namibia recently with my colleague Dr Anamika Dey and we will help him in every possible way. Let him have a quick look at the enclosed article just out from the University of Bonn.
https://www.zef.de/uploads/tx_zefnews/ ZEF_WP_178.pdf
https://www.gian.org/case_studies/A-case- study-on-a-low-cost-Windmill.pdf
h t t p s : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / watch?v=ot12B10n0D
Our fondest love to your children and family. Do let us know when you come to this side. SRISTI (ss.sristi.org ) and GIAN is jointly organising a summer school with junior students of vocational education as well as Polytechnics. Looking forward to keep in touch and very happy that you remembered us. -Ed.
Guideline for innovation policy makers
Shahida Sultana
Innovation Specialist,(Deputy Secretary) Access to Information program (a2i), Bangladesh. shahida_sultana@yahoo.com
Feeling grateful to you for sharing the platform with me for exchanging my views on grassroots innovations. I think it was a good opportunity/ forum for networking between the stakeholders who are actually facing similar problems.
Here in a2i we are going to develop a brief guideline on grassroots innovation which will help policy makers to have a proper understanding of the innovations and also work on other considerations related to scaling up of the innovation products. From the Regional workshop on policies to support grassroots innovation we have a clear understanding of some other country practices. We could also share our best practices there.
I think your kind and valuable advice will enrich us in our every step. From the showcasing of grassroots innovation session, we found some ideas which are equally replicable in our country. I will share these innovations in our social media platform.
I attended some other sessions in the conference which were really outstanding and showed me a new way of thinking. In this year we are also going to arrange an International Summit on Grassroots Innovation. I will inform you the date and time so that you can book your time from your extremely busy schedule.
I got the flavour of a great team work of Honey Bee, SRISTI and GIAN and am grateful to all the members of your team. I am also thankful to other members of the workshop and conference as well as the sponsors. Hope to be in touch.
So nice to hear from you Shahida. I am sure we will soon have a Honey Bee Network in Bangladesh and also a Bengali version of the newsletter. We assure you of all the support in your various endeavours and will certainly work with you on policy note. Take care and warm regards to you all. -Ed.
Understanding the Honey Bee Eco-system
Celine Mounier Sociologist celine.mounier@gmail.com
I am writing to you after I read “Made in India”, the famous book by Benedicte Manier. She advised me to get in touch with you. I was fascinated to discover the Honey Bee ecosystem with the grassroots innovations in villages, the laboratory and the foundation for innovation and Techpedia.in.
I have a project to visit a part of India at the end of April with my sons (aged 20, 16 and 13). Moreover, I am one of the organisers of a learning expedition with the students of the graduate program “Management of Technology and Innovation” (MTI, Paris Dauphine University), directed by Prof. Albert David. The aim of the journey is to discover innovation ecosystems, especially in India, innovative ways to mix high-tech and low-tech, experts and makers. We would be very interested in understanding how the Honey Bee ecosystem has been built and how it is organised now.
For these reasons, it would be a great pleasure and honour to meet you. Do you think we could have the opportunity to visit a part of the Honey Bee ecosystem? What would you suggest to us? Would this be possible in April 2019 (22 to 26th)? I sincerely hope that you will accept to share part of your experience with us.
Most welcome to visit us. My colleague Dr Anamika Dey, CEO of Gian will facilitate your visit to Honey Bee and SRISTI, Gian and NIF. We will be very happy to welcome the learning expedition led/guided by Dr Albert David.
Prof Serge Rihomer is trying to establish a honey bee network node in France along with Abhinav. Will very much wish if we create a Hub at Dauphine University also. With my warm wishes and welcome once again to you and your family. -Ed
Seed capital to support rural women
Anant Krishnan Majumdar
I created my own social project to empower rural women in the villages of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu to be able to start businesses to support their families. This involved interviewing dozens of rural women to understand the issues they faced, and then working from the ground up to help multiple rural women start their own businesses. Almost all of the eight businesses that I helped with seed capital and business development support have regular sales to date, and some women have even gone on to start more businesses. I was featured in an article published in The Hindu (www.thehindu.com/features/ metroplus/society/a-brainchild-of- teenager-anant-majumdar-gives-a- platform-for-rural-entrepreneurs/ article7986545.ece).
I have also worked with social enterprises in Hong Kong to conduct market research to further improve their businesses. We were featured in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post also (www.scmp.com/lifestyle/ families/article/1889754/meet-hong- kong-teenagers-who-set-business- consultancy-high-school).
Will be very happy to have you as a virtual intern at GIAN and if you wish to come during summer, feel welcome to join me. Stay in touch. -Ed.
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