The document summarizes key points from a presentation on grassroots innovations in India. It discusses (1) how the Honey Bee Network was founded in 1987-1988 to connect innovators and traditional knowledge holders in India, (2) examples of innovations scouted by the Network that have been patented or supported for commercialization, and (3) emerging models of innovation like learning from disadvantaged groups, empathetic design, and linking art/culture/technology. It encourages readers to join the Network to support rewarding indigenous creativity.

1. Innovations for meeting the unmet social needs: can
tail wag the dog
Prof Anil Gupta

2. Towards blending natural, social, ethical and
intellectual capital
Sowing the seeds of
samevdana to trigger
sprouts of srijansheelta
Towards empathetic
innovations

3. Key technological challenges for improving
productivity
and improving quality of life:
a) Despite 900 mill mobile phones, there are not
ninety devices whichcan improve quality of our
life
b) A million tech studenst pass out ever year, , but we don’t file
even 10k patents a year, China files 50 times more patents per
million people than India, Techpedia.sristi.org Is the answer

4. c) Partnership of Technology and business
eco-system with informal sector can
enrich both
d) Heuristics underlying Grassroots
innovations can help in humanizing
technology design process
e) There is nobody who is not creative
enough to solve a problem innovatively or
support someone who does it

5. Honey Bee Network
founded in 1987-1988
A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional knowledge
holder comes into contact with the Network and gets an identity.

6. Autopoeisis
model of
Self-design
Self correcting and self
governed Innovations

8. Meghalaya
Technology is like
words,
institutions are
like grammar
and culture is like
thesaurus

9. CREATING open source PUBLIC
STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

10. Shaping future requires working sometimes
without templates:
Integration of different streams of thought and action require incorporation,
assimilation and adaptation of the strengths of each sub-system

11. Five Ps of dynamic leadership
Passion,
Purpose,
Process,
Platforms and
performance

12. Should we open the door ?
How much, for whom

13. 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

14. Minds that meander

15. Dimensions of Inclusion
– Spaces
– Sectors
– Seasons: stable to fluctuating
– Social segments
– Skills and knowledge
Inclusive Innovation

16. Step lock system in bus
R Santhosh 11, K Rathna, A Nivashini, J Rajasekar, 10, Tiruvarur, TN
The idea to stop bus from moving if people are standing at the steps.

17. Modified walker with adjustable legs
Shalini Kumari
Bihar
Shalini’s grandfather uses a walker to assist him
while he walks. But she noticed that he could only
use the walker comfortably while walking on a level
surface. Shalini came up with the idea of the
modified walker with adjustable legs. She has also
thought of including a folding seat so that the user
can rest for a while when required and fitted a horn
and a light to it as well. NIF licensed this technology
to a company recently

18. Internet of Things ( IOT) to Internet of thoughts,
feelings and being: pets, plants and people

19. Posture correcting chair/Sensor
Kulsoom Rizvi, 5, Muzaffarnagar , UP & Tarun Anand, 10, Hardoi, & UP Sunvi Agarwal, 10,
Gurgaon, Haryana
If a person is sitting on the chair in a wrong posture, an alarm will start ringing
and not stop until the person corrects the posture. Else, a camera in computer
device or TV screen will sense posture and cover the display with a message, “sit
properly before u can work”

20. Pen to check concentration
Rudra Prasad Goswami, 11, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Sometime we get distracted while studying and loose our concentration. The idea is to
have a pen with pressure sensors on the grip. Whenever the student will not concentrate
the grip on his pen will loosen, indicating that he is not concentrating.

21. Low cost Braille printer
Santosh Singh & Khushwant Rai, 12, Jalandhar, Punjab
Braille printer exists in the market but at a price range that an ordinary man cannot
afford. For this they have extended the functionalities of dot matrix printer with
some modification to make economical printer which cost around Rs 10000/-
against the market price of about a lakh.

22. Ravi Duhan, Sanjay Raghav and Manoj Kumar
Class 9, SD SSS
Rewari, Haryana
Mobile to mobile charging
The idea to have a system wherein charge from a mobile may be transferred to
another mobile

23. Children get Dr APJ Abdul Kalam ignite awards at
IIMA and grassroots innovators honored at Festival
of Innovation March 12018, 2016, Rashtrapati
Bhavan

24. Frugality has to manifest
in three dimensions
Form
Feature
Function
DHRUV: GANDHINAGAR,
A REFRIGERATOR WHICH GIVES MORE
FOR LESS

26. 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

27. Accessibility
Adaptability &
redesignability
Availability
Redesinability
Acceptability
Affordability
Reliability,
Environmental
suitability

28. www.techpedia.in
• a portal by SRISTI (sristi.org) pooling about 200,000
engineering projects by 600k students from over 600
institutions
• engaging with youth to learn, share and co-create

29. Bicyle Refrigerator For Rural Areas
Student/ Author : Sagar Chandrakant Gadkar, Amol Raghunath Kachare, Sanjay
Shivaji Kachare, Suyog Hanmant Jadhav
Guided By : Prof. S. A. Khot
College : Padmabhushan Vasantraodada Patil Institute of technology, Budhgaon,
Sangli
It is a 50 lit capacity, refrigerator which is powered by a rear wheel of bicycle. To
achieve the required rpm of compressor we provide a larger pulley of dia 20 inch
on rear wheel shaft through which pulley we run the compressor and achieved the
required output. Steady paddling of bicycle at 14 km/hr. for 30 minutes at an
ambient temperature of 35 C, brings down the temperature in box to 8 C.

30. Laser Light Based Fully Computerized Automated Breast Cancer
And Muscle Screening System Development
• Student : Samir Kumar Biswas
• Supervisor : Prof. K Rajan
• Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore

31. Functions
Scouting
and
Documentation
Dissemination &
Information
Technology
Value Addition
& Product
Development
IPRs
Management
NIF
Enterprise
& Business
Development

32. Current Status
• Scouted more than 200,000, ideas,
innovations, traditional knowledge practices
(Not all unique)
• 690 patents filed on behalf of innovators
• 550 projects supported for value addition
• 185 projects under Micro venture innovation
fund
• Transferred 73 technologies to 85 licensees

33. g2G: grassroots to global
Global GIAN – Building a Global Value
Chain for the Augmentation of Green
Grassroots Innovations

34. Sales made internationally
1. Coconut tree climber- USA (Florida, Massachussets, California, Hawaii etc.) Australia,
Maldives, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Mexico, West Indies
2. Pomegranate deseeder - Turkey, USA
3. Garlic peeling machine - Pakistan
4. Arecanut husker - Singapore
5. Milking machine - Phillipines, Uganda, Ethiopia
6. Resin grading machine - Peru
7. Cassava peeling machine - Kenya
8. Herbal growth promoters - Ghana

35. Product queries:
Sl no. Innovation/product Countires
1 Coconut/palm tree climbing device USA, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Iran, West
Indies
2 Entech oil expeller USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Phillipines, Canada, Kenya, Colombia, S.
Africa, Switzerland, Poland, Indonesia, Belgium
3 Garlic peeling machine Slovenia, USA, Turkey, Peru, Singapore, Iran , Venezuela, Pakistan
4 Pomegranate deseeding machine USA, Australia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hongkong, Israel, Netherlands, Thailand,
UAE, Iran, United Kingdom
5 Cassava peeling machine Congo, USA, Benin, Nigeria, Kenya, UAE, Uganda
6 Aaruni tilting cart Uganda
7 Coconut defibring machine China
8 Coconut dehusker Mexico, New Zealand, USA, Philippines, Bangladesh
9 Lemon cutting machine S. Africa
10 Milking machine Bangladesh, Uganda, Ecuador
11 Palm leaf mat weaving machine Fiji
12 Rain Gun (Chandraprabha) Sudan
13 Tea making machine Bangladesh,
14 Tile making machine Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia
15 Trench digging machine Pakistan
16 Zero head water turbine Egypt
17 Arecanut dehusking machine Chile

36. Shodhyatra

39. Will we have the humility to
learn from Ms Ram Timari
Devi
Champaran, jan 2009,
How else could have i
done it?
The only choice,

40. Sattvik
Traditional food festival, Jaisa ann, waisa mann

41. Vyakti, vichar, vyvahar and sanskar
SRISTI

42. Emerging Models of Innovation
a)Building upon what disadvantaged people are rich in:
inability to live with problems unsolved – overcoming
inertia
b) Empathetic innovation: samvedana se
srijansheelta, kho kho model of
innovation (innovation relay)
c)Disruption through empathetic disconnect with
inertia

43. d) Inverted model of innovations: children invent, engineers
fabricate, and companies commercialize
e) Linking art, culture, technology and institutions vital
for a sustainable eco-system
f) distributed mind management: www.techpedia.sristi.org -
transcending the limits of frugality
g) Moving blackboards: learning from unexpected quarters
Emerging Models of Innovation

44. How can you join?
• Engage, involve, assimilate, Mentor
• Connect, open the gates
• Co-invest, invest
• Spread a good word around
• just spend some time with the innovators
• Education, institutions, culture, technology
See sif.sristi.org; gyti.techepdia.in, nifindia.org

45. The President of India honours grassroots innovators, launches
National Innovation Clubs and hosts an innovation exhibition at the
President’s house; hosts Festival of Innovation (FOIN)
Initiative to Institutionalisation: Policy

46. The former President awards children innovators every year at the
IGNITE Award function by NIF at IIMA
Initiative to Institutionalisation

47. 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 social movement,
started in 1987-88,

48. 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