The document discusses the importance of monitoring change, the role of grassroots innovations in overcoming various barriers, and highlights Mahatma Gandhi's global innovation challenge for addressing unmet needs. It emphasizes the need for inclusive design and empathetic solutions that address the pain of marginalized communities and explores the potential of collaborative efforts between innovators and institutions. Additionally, it touches on the Honey Bee Network's mission to foster indigenous creativity and the establishment of techpedia.in as a platform for engaging youth in innovation.

2. A change not monitored is a change not desired
(Gupta, 1984):

3. Design ecology
product, purpose, process, policy, service and
systems (4PSS)

4. Overcoming exclusion
Delivery across six barriers
Spatial
Sectoral
Social
Skill
Seasonal/temporal
Structural ( governance, institutional)

5. Transformative & innovative
leadership:
Getting your ideas owned by others:
An eye for oddity

6. Giving voice, visibility and
velocity to creative and
innovative people in formal
and informal sector
Honey bee network

7. Can context
change the
content?

8. Gandhi announced a Global
innovation challenge
for addressing an Indian unmet need
Mahatma Gandhi's Announcement of a Design Competition, 24th
July 1929 One Lakh Rupees or 7700 Pounds Prize!
Akhila Bharatiya Charkhaa Sangh Worker's Samiti has decided to
organize this contest for inventors and engineers all over the world that
if they could come up with a Charkha or a Samyukta Yantra which - for
making the thread and cloth that satisfies the following criterion - shall
be awarded prize money of 1 Lakh Rupees or 7700 pounds.
Gyti.techpedia.in/announcement

9. INERTIA OF CENTURIES gave way
thanks to the father of crowd sourcing /uncovering distributed leadership in
India 1931

10. creativity, compassion, communication and collaboration
anil
Honey Bee Network
www.Sristi.org/anilg anilg@sristi.org
anilgb@gmail.com
www.nifindia.org
Techpedia.in
Autopoietic model of self
governed, self designed
creativity, compassion,
communication and
collaboration

11. In search of grassroots
innovations:
shodhyatra

12. Shodhyatra every summer, every autumn, every
winter
the teacher Within
the teacher Around (peers)
the teacher in Nature
the teacher among
Common People
Learnings from 5000+ km walk

14. Inertia and innovation
• Why do certain problems remain unsolved for such along time?
• How to make invisible pain of poor people visible to the formal STI?
• How to raise the expectations of common people from STI institutions?
• How do communities collaborate with scientists and technologists?
• How to learn from the heuristics underlying grassroots innovations?
• How to disseminate co-created products and services as DIY or licensable IP
based products?

15. Inertia: Problems still unaddressed adequately

16. Civilizational inertia:
can we inventorise such wicked problems
Bastar
Designing
Nut crackers
Why doesn’t any in-situ
value addition take place in
forests

17. Technological and institutional Inertia:
when WILL women suffer NO more
Source:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?pq=paddy+transplanting+image&hl=fr&sugexp=gsis,i18n%3Dtrue&cp=31&gs_id=n&xhr=t&q=paddy+transplanting+image
+india&nord=1&gs_sm&gs_upl&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1360&bih=624&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wq#5225312498863276162

18. Traditional bamboo
flattening process for
making wall or partitions
Shodhyatra
Arunachal Pradesh
zero district

19. Arunachal
Pradesh,
Zero distt ,
An innovation that did not take off? An Abandoned idea

20. Posture correcting chair:
an idea still awaiting execution
Kulsoom Rizvi, 5,& TarunAnand, 10,

21. Water is rich in iron. Increase in
Iron content in the body results in
liver disorder, diabetes, arthritis
and cancer
Water purification system

22. Wood Carving/drilling Machines: large gear to small gear
Pedal operated wood carving
machine-Gulab Gogoi, West Subahi
Hand operated wood carving machine-
Prafulla Borah, Misamari Pedal operated wood carving
machine- Toko Borah, Misamari

23. Adjustable walker:
idea -innovation - product
Miss Shalini Kumari, class 8 Patna,
Bihar
• .
NIF engaged design firm for developing improved
reliable prototype. And licensed it to a company with fee shared with innovator

25. Bad design, good intentions
Do we need to waste
water every time,
every where

26. Inclusive solutions
for human and non human sentient brings
• New hand pump has a
provision of 25% water
donation for the animal
trough, which is collected
from the runoff
• A provision of about 1 liter
water storage inside the head
of the pump which can be
utilized through a tap for use
as a drinking source just by
pumping once

28. Towards blending natural, social, ethical and intellectual
capital
Sowing the seeds of
samevdana
Towards empathetic
innovations

29. Towards blending natural, social, ethical and intellectual
capital
Samvedana
feeling others ‘ pain as one’s own,
exactly,
Designs born out
of empathy

30. Empathetic Designs: all for alleviating
the pain of mother
samvedan
a
srijansheelta
Sanyojan

31. Laxmi Asu Making Machine
C Mallesham, Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh

32. Transcending frontiers of excellence : a kurta without a stitch
Karna meher and his wife have done
what seems impossible: weave a kurta
without a stitch, baripali, Barghar,
odisha
Can we partner with Karna couple and
add value to their unique skills
Can they be an equity holder in our
enterprise?

33. creating open-source public standards of
excellence

34. Reducing ex ante and
ex poste transaction
costs is necessary for a
fair and viable
innovation ecosystem

35. www.techpedia.in
• recently a new initiative techpedia.in, (a
portal by SRISTI ( sristi.org) pooling
204,000 engineering projects by 550k
students from over 600 institutions) etc.,
engaging with youth in the one of the
youngest country besides
•

36. Abandoned US patent database
• With the help of two alumni, Zaigham and Devika, we
have pooled 0.9 million abandoned US patents for free
use by MSME, gian.org/patent.php or techpedia.in/patent
• Other databases: grid.undp.org.in
• Grassroots innovation open database

37. Learning platforms
from concrete to abstract
1) Artefactual - as a replication of solution level
2) Analogic - metaphor to inspire
3) Heuristic - as a model or principle
4) Gestalt - configurational level
Gupta, 2012, Own compilation

38. Information/Knowledge/Wisdom
Innovation Playground
Inside out
High Low
High
Low
DBDB
Sponge
Pollinator ostrich
Outside in
Large heart, big mind,
Dil bada dimaag bada

39. How did it happen:
The journey…..
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH AND INITIATIVES FOR
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND INSTITUTIONS
(www.SRISTI.org) info@sristi.org
GRASSROOTS INNOVATION AUGMENTATION
NETWORK (www.GIAN.org)
NATIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION
(www.NIFindia.org) info@nifindia.org
anilg@sristi.org
The Honey Bee Network, an informal global grassroots social
movement, begun in 1987-88,

40. Creativity counts
Knowledge matters
Innovations transform
Incentives inspire
( not just individual, but also collective, not just material,
but also non-material)
Join the Honey Bee Network!
For rewarding indigenous creativity and innovation
www.techpedia.in, www.sristi.org, www.nif.org.in
anilgb@gmail.com

41. blending
Passion,
Purpose
Process
and
Performance
Through
Platforms