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January 22, 2015
Time/Date
Brain storming on Inclusive Innovation
through linkage between formal and Informal
sectors
Science and Technology Connecting Higher
Education with Grassroots (S&T)
Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and
Diffusion (FNF)
Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC
Venue: Wing-11, committee Room
Chair:
Vasant Gandhi
Chair:
Raghuvir Chaudhary
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Director, Grambharti Amrapur Trust
Co-Chair:
Vijay Paul Sharma
Co-Chair:
Dinesh Awasthi
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Director, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
(EDII)
Venue: RJMCEI Auditorium
09:00 –
11:00
Discussant:
Rakesh Maheshwari
Quinton C. Kanhukamwe
Co-ordinator, Technology Business Incubator (TBI), NIF
Vice Chancellor, Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe
Panelist:
Panelist:
1. Outcome of farmer participatory research
approach in farm mechanization: M.D. Vora,
1. Dynamics of technology commons: A case of
Bullet Santi: Mahesh Patel, NIF
Faculty, College of Agriculture Engineering &
Technology, Anand Agriculture University, Gujarat
2. Rooting Frugality in Science and Engineering:
Balkrishna C. Rao, Faculty, Department of
Engineering Design, IIT-Madras
3. Accelerating technology innovations in
institutions of higher learning: P B Sharma
and Ashok Kumar Raghav, Faculty, Amity
University, Gurgaon, Haryana
4. Factors explaining students’ inclination
towards entrepreneurship: empirical study of
ethiopian university students: Buzeye Zegeye,
2. Social and Economic Impacts Assessment of
Mushroom Production in Uganda: Xiaoping
Wei, Qui Sun, Zhiqing Zhao, Chen Yang, &
Guowu Ou, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
China, James Akanyijuka and Peace Byandusya,
Mushroom Training and Resource Centre, Kabale,
Uganda, & Pradeep Malakar, Institute Food
Research, Norwich, UK
3. Promoting Farmer Experimentation and
Innovation in Sahel (PROFEIS) Case of Mali:
Djibril Diarra, Souleymane Diarra, Ousmane B.
Diallo, Abdou Y. Maiga, Samba Traoré &
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College of Business and Economics, Department of
Management, Wollo University, Ethopia
5. Characterizing the grassroots innovation
process, to develop value-driven case studies
for engineering pedagogy: Geetanjali Date,
Student, Homi Bhabha centre of Science Education,
TIFR, Mumbai and Sanjay Chandrasekharan,
Faculty, Homi Bhabha centre of Science Education,
TIFR, Mumbai
Assetou Kanoute, Coordinator, PROFEIS, Prolinnova,
Mali
4. An Approach for Optimization of Agricultural
Parameters and Resources using Wireless
Automation: Pari S. Acharya, Niyati Doshi and
Jignesh G. Bhatt, Dharmsinh Desai University,
Nadiad, Gujarat
5.
6. Linking grassroots innovation with technology
and applying sustainable environmental
technology to industrialising grassroots
innovation: Q.C. Kanhukamwe, Vice Chancellor,
Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe and A
Phiri, Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe
6.
7. Mason guide tools for masonry construction
in mitigating effects of earthquakes: Hemant
Kumar Vinayak, Faculty, NIT, Hamirpur & Rajnish
Srivastava, Director, NIT, Hamirpur
Past for the Present: Traditional knowledge
and farmer innovations in the Central and
Eastern Himalayas: Ajay Rastogi, Nawraj
Gurung, Reetu Sogani and Prakriti Mukerjee,
Smallholder Innovation for Resilience (SIFOR)
Prevalence of food insecurity among the small
holders in rural Bangladesh, an empirical
study: Tanvir Shatil Staff researcher, Research and
Evaluation Division (RED), BRAC & Md. Shakil
Ahmed, Research Associate, Research and Evaluation
Division (RED), BRAC
8. Changing dynamics of higher education
research and innovation in india: key issues:
Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray, Doctoral Student, Central
University of Jammu
11:00 –
11:30
Tea Break
Open & Democratic access to knowledge for
grassroots communities (OPDC)
Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL)
Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and
Diffusion (FNF)
Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC
11:30 –
13:00
Venue: Audi-2. KLMDC
Chair:
Sanjay Verma
Venue: Wing-11, committee Room
Chair:
Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Executive Director, Sahapedia
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Chair:
Vasanth Shetty
Dean (Vety) & OSD, Veterinary College, Karnataka
Co-Chair:
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Co-Chair:
Arul George Scaria
Faculty, NLU (Delhi)
Susantha Goonatilake
President, Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka
Panelist:
Discussant:
Judy Frater
1. An Electronic Platform For Facilitating
Financial Trading Of Non-Exclusive License
Of Technology: Akhilesh Gupta and Kamal
Rabha, Center for Industrial Technology &
Founder Director, Somaiya Kalavidya
Innovation Economics, Mumbai
2. National Digital Literacy Mission:
Harnessing Collective Energies for a
Digitally Literate India: Shrikant Sinha, Chief
Operating Officer, NASSCOM Foundation
3. Utility of User Networks for Development
Communication: An ICT Social Network
driven approach for Diffusion of
Innovation: Rahul Mane, Research Associate,
Communications Division, Mudra Institute of
Communication (MICA)
4. Conceptualising Grassroots Innovation
Systems in India: Hemant Kumar, Center for
Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy,
Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar
Innovation Policy, Central University of Gujarat,
Gandhinagar
Chief Scientist, Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)
Premlata Singh
Faculty, Agriculture Extension, IARI
Panelist:
Panelist:
1. Making Indian Culture and Its Cultural
Diversity Innovative: Nazir Parwez, Faculty,
1. Farmers’ rights and sustainable agriculture
development: Hardev Chaudhary, NIF
2. Holistic land and livestock management:
James Chawarika, Community Worker, Harare,
Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University,
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
2. 'Pabuji Ki Phad' a lost art or a social need:
Dinesh Yadav, Birla Institute of Technology &
Science, (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan
3. Preserving Traditional Art through Social
Business: A case of Mithilasmita - Madhubani
paintings: Ankur Joshi, Doctoral Student, Public
Policy and Governance, Management Development
Institute, Gurgaon & S. K Tapasvi, Faculty, Policy and
Governance, Management Development Institute,
Gurgaon
4. Folk Route: Changing Preferences in Urban
Spaces: Utpala Desai, Visiting Faculty, JG College
of Performing Arts and HK Arts College, Ahmedabad
5. Learning and creativity based use of
Informal knowledge in the Horticulture
sector of Jammu and Kashmir: Sheeraz
Ahmad Alaie, Center for Science, Technology and
Co-Chair:
Sanjeev Saxena
5. Intangible heritage transformationsPatachitra of Bengal exploring modern New
Media: Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai, Faculty,
Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (UG),
(SIMC-UG), Pune
6. Intervention framework for transforming
survival appropriations of music-skilled rural
artistic and innovative persons with disability
Zimbabwe
3. Evaluation of Indigenous veterinary
medications for curing Bovine Ephemeral
fever in regions of Himachal Pradesh: Alok K
Sharma, College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, HP
Agriculture University, Palampur, Sheikh Hefajat
Hussain, S. Ponnan, R. Periyasamy, Amar
singh, Lakshmanbhai Pabbabhai Bharwad,
Devesh Thakur, R.D. Patil, Arpna Tandon
4. Effect of dietary supplementation of
AHP/FA/MM on performance and protection
against bacterial infection in commercial
broilers: Vasanth M S, Amit Bera, Shivakumar
M C, Suresh B N, and Manjunath L, Kartik
Chandra Maity, Veterinary College, Hassan,
Karnataka
5. Clinical validation for mastitis in animals:
Becharbhai Samantbhai Devgania,
M.S.Bhadwal, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences &
Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of
Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu,
Pranav Kumar, S.A. Khandi and R.K.
Bhardwaj
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into sustainable livelihoods: Govind Dhaske,
Research Assistant, Indiana University School of Social
Work, Indianapolis, USA and Prashant Sude,
National CSR Hub, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
6. Participatory Technology Development in
Indigenous Veterinary Medicine (PTDIVM)Experience of TANUVAS: Sudeepkumar N.K.,
Professor and Head, Department of Livestock Business
Management, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu
Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, Periyasamy
P., Periyaveeturaman, Naveen K., Selva Raju
D., Thirunavukkarasu D., & Raja M.J.
13:00 –
14:00
Lunch Break
Open & Democratic access to knowledge for
grassroots communities (OPDC)
Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL)
Coping Creatively with Climate Change
Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC
Venue: Class Room – 1, RJMCEI
Chair:
Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Chair:
Gurdeep Singh
Executive Director, Sahapedia
Vice Chancellor, Vinoba Bhave University
Co-Chair:
Pravin Mishra
Co-chair:
Lillian Machivenyika
Venue: Audi-2. KLMDC
Chair:
Sanjay Verma
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Arul George Scaria
Faculty, Mudra Institute of Communication
Faculty, NLU (Delhi)
14:00 –
15:30
Panelist:
Panelist:
1. Learning and creativity based use of
informal knowledge in the horticulture
sector of Jammu and Kashmir: Sheeraz
Ahmed Alaie, Doctoral Student, Central
1. Sowing the Seeds Right: The struggle for
cultural preservation vs. “cultural losses” in a
globalized world: an innovation framework:
Ajanta Sen and Ravi Poovaiah, Faculty,
Industrial Design Center, IIT-Bombay
University of Gujarat
2. Innovative strategies for using social
media, e-commerce and other platforms to
link grassroots to Global markets: Ruma
Agwekar, Founder, Petals
3. Open and Democratic Access to Knowledge
for Grassroots Communities: Arul George
2. Up scaling Local Creative Artisan ARCH
Cluster: Case of Metalware Cluster in South
India: V. P. Sriraman et al, Bharathidasan
Institute of Management, Trichy
3. Creativity & innovation of the traditional
Craftsmen of Kashmir Handmade Pashmina-
Director, Cluster Agriculture Development Studies (CADS),
Zimbabwe
Panelist:
1. CADS’ experience in promoting agrobiodiversity in the face of climate change in
Zimbabwe: Lillian Machivenyika, Director,
Cluster Agriculture Development Studies (CADS),
Zimbabwe
2. Innovation and experimentation by farmers in
the Kumaon and Garhwal Himalayas in the
state of Uttarakhand in north India for Climate
Change adaptation in agriculture: Sonali Bisht,
Prolinnova network
3. Nexus of Climate change and food insecurity
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Scaria, Faculty, NLU (Delhi)
4. Dealing with Citizens Grievances in a Smart
City: Dipti Gupta, Student, IIM-Ahmedabad
5. Spreading the good word: harnessing social
media for diffusing grassroots frugal
innovations: Chintan Vinod Shinde et al,
SRISTI
perspective from the grassroots level: Asma
Bashir, Central University of Jammu
4. Max Weber’s Bureaucracy and Buddhist
Monastic Organisation as Possible Templates
for Management: Susantha Goonatilake,
President, Royal Asiatic Society, Srilanka
towards effective mitigation measures using
underutilised crops: Aladejebi O J, Department
of Agriculture Economics and Extension, Federal
University, Oye Ekiti, Nigeria and Oladeji S O,
Edewor S E, Department of Agriculture Economics
and Farm Management, Federal University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
4. Perceived climatic variability and agricultural
adaptations by material resource poor
farmers: Mainstreaming informal knowledge
with formal knowledge systems: Ranjay K
Singh, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute Haryana;
Angchuk Dorje, Defense Institute of High Altitude
Research, Ladakh; Rajesh Khedi, Grassroots
Innovator, Haryana; Surjit Singh, Grassroots
Innovator of Rice variety, Haryana
5. Farmers' creativity in coping with climate
risks: a study of paddy farmers in eastern
Uttar Pradesh: Anamika Dey
6. Assessing Vulnerability: An adaptation
strategy to cope with the changing climate for
sustainable future: MTR Khan, Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA)
and M D Omprakash, LBSNAA
15:30 –
16:00
Tea Break
16:00 – 16:45
16:00 –
18:00
Discussion on Ahmedabad Declaration
Venue: RJMCEI Auditorium
16:45 – 17:30
Rapporteurs' summarization on each track: Technological, Cultural,
Institutional and Educational
Valedictory Session
Venue: RJMCEI Auditorium
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