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Medicinal plants in our garden
Mamta Shrivastav
mamtashrivastav1234@gmail.com
I’m a student of BAJM and a regular member of Honey Bee. My father is a herbal healer and we have our own herbal garden in which we grow herbs/vegetables and prepare various Ayurvedic products. We have some rare medicinal plant species collected by my father. He has a lot of experience in tribal medicines. I want to share these with Honey Bee members. Hope to hear from you at the earliest.
Welcome to the Honey Bee Network Mamta. Please send your detailed documentation with photographs of the plants and scientific names to sristi100@gmail.com and we will promptly acknowledge. We also have a lab that can take up your products for evaluation and further value addition if you wish to share them with larger society. -Ed.
Feedback on websites
K Singh
triveni.2com@gmail.com
A few observation on Honey Bee Network, SRISTI and NIF websites
User interface: The result page must show me number of results on each page (this is usually at the end of the page at the bottom), it should also be at the top.
http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/seeking_solution.php There must be a prize to motivate people for each of the problems. The solution must be posted on your website or at least the person who one can go to for help.
The search algorithm on the sites should be improved to give relevant results. What is the point of searching the Honey Bee Magazine database when the door is barred? One needs to register and give quite a lot of details.
In “Honey Bee published details” section, the user does not know what all is available in the database.
So some headings should be provided so that he/she can locate what he wants.
Many thanks for all the suggestions. We are looking for someone well versed in content management to fix many of these things. The idea is to get to know who is using the Honey Bee Network databases and sites and see if some of them can become future collaborators. Nobody has been denied access. I will look into other ways of making it more user-friendly. Keep sending your suggestions and if you locate an editor and web admin let us know please. -Ed.
Want to work with Honey Bee Network
Pranoy Guduru
gpranoy@gmail.com
I am a final year engineering student. Ever since I saw your TED talk, I’m greatly inspired to put my education to solve public issues. I like your work and would like to help in all possible ways. I can help in improving indiainnovates.com and sristi.org. I can also promote Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award in my college as well as in neighbouring colleges.
You may develop an app through which students can submit summaries of their final year projects directly into the techpedia.in database. You can possibly start from
the scratch indiainnovates.com as a single point window to the innovative face of our country.
Please help us to mobilise entries from various local polytechnics, engineering, pharmacy and other colleges for GYTI (Gandhian Young Technological Innovation) Awards. In addition if you can collect the summary of the projects done with title, name of the students, faculty guide, department, college, abstract, year and contact information, it would be very helpful. -Ed.
Volunteering in SRISTI activities
Pallavi Modi
pallavimodi@gmail.com
I am an active follower of all your updates and posts & I saw today’s post for volunteers. I am interested to work for SRISTI projects. I am Chandigarh based and would like to work online on the designing of the websites of sristi.org, techpedia.in or indiainnovates.com, also for
a) Promoting Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards (http://www.techpedia.in/award)
b) Mobilizing summaries and/or full projects of last three years from technical colleges (polytechnics, degree colleges, pharmacy, engineering, agriculture, undergraduate or post graduate) for uploading with due credit at techpedia.in from all over the country. Idea is to promote originality, forge lateral links and link academia with MSME and informal sector problems.
c) Data entry work, converting about 25000 word files of projects into database format for uploading on techpedia.in.
I hope my location is not a hindrance. Many thanks for giving us the opportunity to work with you. During our stay at Ahmedabad, we couldn’t do much. But I feel through this opportunity, we can learn so much from you.
Nice to hear about your accomplishments.Would you like to try redesigning www.sristi.org/cultural
and create an e-commerce platform
so that people can pay as they wish for downloading the content of the creative people? -Ed.
Documentary on Grassroots Innovators
Amaresh Jha
jha.amaresh@gmail.com
I am inspired by your work, life and vision. Your contribution in the field of searching, recognizing and promoting the rural innovations is unmatched. What I’m planning right now is production of a TV documentary on these innovators. I have so far produced more than 1000 special stories for leading TV channels of India. But, producing a documentary on rural innovators is a new concept for me. And, the biggest challenge is to compel the audience to watch these innovations on television. As you have visited every corner of the country in search of such innovators, I understand that no one else can paint the canvas better. I will look forward for your contribution in many ways in this endeavour. I expect your kind suggestions and guidance on the concept.
I will be happy to discuss this idea further. We could think of a series which goes beyond innovations into the whole realm of creativity and then we could discuss each episode on a blog. -Ed.
Work with the Honey Bee Network
Shen Xi Tey
shenxi_tey_2006@hotmail.com
I am an undergraduate student studying aerospace engineering in University Science of Malaysia. I have just started my second semester a few days ago and was assigned to do a brief research on the Honey Bee Network.
The organisation’s effort has gained tremendous respect from students in University Science of Malaysia. We are curious, and would like to know more about HBN. I have learned that HBN has helped a lot of the base-of-pyramid population in India. Please tell us by what means can the poor approach the Network if they have ideas that they want to share? How locals from rural areas can be alerted about the organisation?
Please read our open content at the blog sristi.org/anilg, as well as creativityat grassroots.wordpress.com and our sites sristi.org and nifindia.org. I am very happy to see your interest in HBN and hope that some of you can take up the initiative to form a Honey Bee club. We are keen to start a Malay, Chinese and Tamil language newsletter also for local communities. -Ed.
Help in dissertation topic
Iosto Ibba
iostoibba@yahoo.it
I’m an Italian student currently involved in an international master called MiDIC - Master in Development, Innovation and Change, held at Bologna University. I have always been concerned with indigenous people’s issues. I have worked for an Argentinean NGO as an intern to develop indigenous and governmental capabilities in addressing relevant democratic consultation. My dissertation was on the concept of justifiability of indigenous people’s rights.This time, with regard to a possible PhD proposal, I thought I could focus on indigenous traditional knowledge and their traditional innovation capacity. Is it a feasible topic? Would you be available to give me some suggestion or additional hint? Can I send you further information about my ideas? Is there any possibility to ask for some academic advice or guidance regarding my proposal? If so, whom can I ask?
Sure. Please go through various papers at my blog sristi.org/anilg particularly one on contested domain and another on
giving creativity it’s due. Last one is available at Harvard University site too. Look forward to hear at greater length. All the best. -Ed.
Discovered an Innovator
Mahulkar, Amol
amol.mahulkar@ge.com
After a conference, I was actively observing people and their innovative ways of making things easy by innovating new patterns & tools. Few days before I discovered an innovative juice seller who had developed a mobile sugarcane juicer. I am planning to surface his story in grass root innovations forum. Need your help & support in understanding the way of doing it and right forum for it
Very nice to hear this! Can you send the photos and a bit more information? Looking forward to hear from you soon. -Ed.
Wish to create “Systematic Inventive Thinking”
Sarvoday Bishnoi
sarvoday.bishnoi@gmail.com
I’m really interested in Honey Bee Network. I just quit my job and am coming back to India. I’ve been very interested in working at bottom of pyramid since I read book by C. K. Prahalad.
I’m 27, and have spent more than 19 years in a small town and I’m passionate about doing something related to innovations in rural India as I firmly believe (and I found same in your talk at TED) that these small but important innovations will help to bring people in rural areas at a platform where they will be able to inspire others. I want to make it an innovation story which is required by India in the current scenario. I want to travel to India and search for innovative ideas or any other creation that has helped to make life easier. I would be more than excited to join the Honey Bee Network and I hope I’ll get a chance to work with you.
Good to hear from you, Sarvodaya. Looking forward to see you when you are here.
Also send me some more specific ideas about what and where you can make a unique contribution. -Ed.
Shodhyatra
Karishma Vyas
karishma.vyas@gmail.com
I’m a television producer based in New Delhi. I had written to you a few months back on behalf of American news channel NBC who were interested in joining you on one of your innovation discovery yatras. Can you please tell me if this is still the case?
Most likely our next Yatra is in Vidharbha from May 5 to 12. See you soon. - Ed
Want to contribute to HBN
Gabriel Brückner
gabriel.brueckner@gmx.de
In September 2009, you visited our school for a conference on sustainability.
After your speech we talked about your achievements in India (the Honey Bee Network). I visited the Honey Bee Network website and wish to contribute or volunteer in any way. I want to be out in the field and work on real projects to solve real problems. I am about to finish my degree in Product Design.
Sure, welcome Gabriel. You could work on a specific product or set if products to make them look and feel better for local as well as global use. Please visit nifindia.org and sristi.org sites and then we can start discussing which product you will pick up.
Welcome once again to Honey Bee Network. - Ed.
Establishing Official Contact at the Fraunhöfer Institute
Elisabeth Opie
elisabeth.opie@zv-extern.fraunhofer.de
I am fortunate to have attended the Seventh Biennial Grassroots Innovation Awards as part of the Global Research Alliance delegation in India. The Awards and Exhibition illustrated such an extensive and impressive range of activity fostering and achieving frugal innovation.
You presented me with a copy of the book ‘India Innovates’ and I have shared this with my colleague Denise Kaske. Denise is the point of contact at Fraunhofer Headquarters in Munich, in its dealings with India. By way of this email, I would like to connect you with her. I hope that our paths again meet. In the meantime, wishing you all the best.
That is very kind of you Elisabeth. The Honey Bee Network is a life mission for us and every time we are able to get recognition to unsung heroes of our society, we feel vindicated. We will be very happy to touch base with your colleague in India and explore synergy in India as well as globally. -Ed.
Honey Bee in Russia
Olga Ustyuzhantseva
olgavust@gmail.com
I am a research fellow and a post-graduate student at Tomsk State University (Russia, Siberia) studying the role of regions (states) in innovation development of India.
During my research I found out about grassroots innovation movement initiated by you in Gujarat. I still have some open questions about how (by what criteria) to estimate effectiveness of activity of GIAN, SRISTI etc. However, these organizations are obviously creating needed environment for innovations development.
As for us (Russia), the grassroots innovations are almost not explored here – nor at the governmental level, or in scientific and research circles. There are some initiatives to support startups of young inventors. For instance there is BIT Competition(http://www.bit-konkurs.ru/English)– “entrepreneurship competition organised each year to help innovative projects emerge from across Russia and neighboring countries”. The organiser of this competition in Siberia asked me if there is an interest to hold international competition of this kind in or with India. The competition combines the ideas of http://mit100k.org/ and a model of business-incubator (http://ycombinator.com). The joint competition would help young inventors in India and Russia to reach venture investors in both the countries.
I have also explained the idea of a Russian branch of the Honey Bee Network to the students of my department (The Department of International Relations). They are inspired to try themselves in this field.
We activated the Honey Bee Network in China seven years ago and today we have a database of more than 6500 GRIs there. Stay in touch and do not hesitate to ask further questions. We want you to succeed in this mission. Creative communities and individuals deserve their space under the sun and also need our support for making frugal innovations. – Ed.
Support for a mobile pesticide sprinkler
Vaibhav Arora
p10vaibhava@iimahd.ernet.in
During a visit to rural parts of Rajasthan I came across an interesting idea and thought about sharing it with you. The idea is about a mobile pesticide sprinkler- basically a sprinkler and motor system which receives its drive from a motorcycle engine.
The idea is implemented by Ramzan Khan from Palakdi village, Alwar, Rajasthan. He is currently looking for support to help him convert this idea into a business initiative. Please feel free to reach him directly.
Very interesting. We had awarded Ganesh Bhai Dodiya for the purpose some years
ago. But it is good to know idea is
spreading. Thank you so much. Keep me informed whenever you come across such ideas. -Ed.
Possible future collaboration on Intellectual Property
Jeremy de Beer
Jeremy.debeer@gmail.com
Though it has been a long while since our last communication, I have not forgotten about our ideas to collaborate. Indeed your name came up often in a WIPO working group I’m involved with on IP and informal sector innovation — headed by Sacha Wunch-Vincent. I hope this work gives us a chance to cross paths in person at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Meanwhile, I will keep you posted on our project’s research developments.
I am looking forward to keep in close touch in the coming year. You can download hundreds of papers from sristi.org/anilg and pl feel free to ask for any other information about what we do. –Ed. |
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