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International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG]
Centre for Management in Agriculture, IIM-Ahmedabad
Email: [email protected]
January 19, 2015
Time/Date
Introduction to ICCIG 3
Venue: RJM Auditorium
09:00 – 11:00
Welcome Note: Anil Gupta, Faculty, Centre for Agriculture Management, IIM-Ahmedabad
Elaben Bhatt, Founder, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Raghunath A. Mashelkar, Chairperson, National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF-India)
Vote of Thanks: Vipin Kumar, Director, National Innovation Foundation - India
one (Farmer, Mechanic, Teacher, Cultural creativity)
Short Film on IIMA community outreach program and Honey Bee Network
11:00 – 11:30
Tea Break
Plenary session on Inclusive Design
Venue: RJM Auditorium
Chair:
Raghunath A. Mashelkar, Chairperson, National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF-India)
Ashish Nanda*, Director, IIM-Ahmedabad
11:30 – 13:00
Keynotes:
Amos G Winter, Faculty, Deptt of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA
Shashi Buluswar, Executive Director, Institute for Globally Transformative Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, USA
Aguinaldo dos Santos, Head, Design and Sustainability Research Center, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Li Weian, President, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics (TUFE), China
Renu Swarup, Managing Director, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)
(To be confirmed)
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
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Gandhian Young Technology Innovation (GYTI):
Linking Academics, Enterprise and Investors
Bio-diversity, Value addition and local knowledge
(BDV)
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Venue: Audi – 1, KLMDC
Design for Making difference (D-MAD-1)
Devising Sustainable solutions for Low income
communities
Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room
Chair:
Shailendra Mehta
Chair:
Kartikeya Sarabhai
Provost – Ahmedabad University
Director, CEE – Ahmedabad
Chair:
Shashi Buluswar
Co-Chair:
Mahesh Murthy
Co-Chair:
S. Ragupathy
Executive Director, Institute for Globally Transformative
Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley,
USA
Founder, Pinstorm
Rajnish Shrivastava
Director, NIT-Hamirpur
Discussant:
Sunil Parekh
14:00 – 15:30
Board Member, NDBI-NID & CIIE-IIM-Ahmedabad
Calvin Kebati
Student Innovation & Industry Liaison Lead, JKUAT, Kenya
Panelist:
Missing links for fostering student ventures
based on academic student innovations after
recognition: insights from GYTI Awards: Team
techpedia, SRISTI
Chief Curator, BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario,
University of Guelph, Canada
Panelist:
1. Impact of the Medicinal Plant Conservation Area
(MPCA), a conservation technique, on rural
development: Mohan, Almora district,
Uttarakhand: Nikita Kala and Jyoti K Sharma,
Student, School of Environment and Natural Resources,
Co-Chair:
Amos G Winter
Faculty, Deptt of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA
Discussant:
Chintan Vaishnav
Faculty, MIT, USA
Panelist:
Doons University, Dehradun
2. Adaptation of Environment friendly
entrepreneurship for forest waste management
and livelihood generation – a case study: Prabir
Kumar Panda, Faculty, Siliguri Institute of Technology,
West Bengal and Analjyoti Basu, Doctoral Student,
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII),
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
3. Innovations in food processing industry:
Ethnography of Bamboo shoot in Manipur:
Wairokpam Premi Devi, Doctoral Student, Central
1. Design for multiple life cycles: A teachinglearning pedagogy for designing products
for multiple life cycles: Amaltas Khan, PG
Student, and Puneet Tandon, Faculty, Indian
Institute of Information Technology Designing and
Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India
2. Between open hardware and grassroots
innovation: the case of the global village
construction set: Justing Pickard and
Georgina Voss, Doctoral Student, Science and
Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
University of Gujarat
4. Exploring the role of micro propagation
3. Green Technology for Clean Pond:
Pradeep Sane, Manager, ONGC, Vadodara
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innovation in Biodiversity erosion: a case of
cultivated bananas in Andhra Pradesh: Prasanna
Kumar K L, Research Scholar, Agri Biotech Foundation,
Hyderabad
5. Bamboo and Innovation for Biodiversity
conservation and sustainability in the Northeast
India – Tapas Giri, Faculty, IIM-Shilong, Meghalaya
6. How to recognize the role of
pastoralists/Livestock keepers in conservation of
animal biodiversity: P. Vivekanandan et al,
Executive Director, Sustainable – agriculture & Environment
Voluntary Action (SEVA), Tamil Nadu
7. Is all traditional knowledge community
knowledge – Vivek Kumar, Scientist, NIF
8. Ethnobotany genomics in the context of
conservation and protection of bio cultural
diversity/local knowledge: S. Ragupathy, Chief
4. Low income communities and crowd
design: An approach for problem scouting:
Aguinaldo dos Santos, Head, Design &
Sustainability Research Center,
Federal University of Parana, Brazil
5. Design, development and implementation
of first flush system: Sourabh Bhati, UG
student and Rajiv Gupta, Senior professor, BITS
Pilani, Rajasthan
6. Eco-friendly toilets for sustainable world:
V V Rangarao, IIT Hyderabad and G Shankar
Narayan, Architect, Shankar Narayan Architects
7. Design education: empirical investigations
of design theory in practice in specific
context: Dipanka Boruah and Amarendra
Kumar Das, Faculty, Design Deptt., Indian
Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Curator, BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario,
University of Guelph, Canada and Sathishkumar,
Faculty, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar
University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
15:30 – 16:00
Tea Break
Exhibition of Innovation and Poster Presentation
16:00 – 18:00
Venue: Cricket ground, IIM, Old Campus
18:00 – 18:30
Tea Break
Evolution of Grassroots Inclusive Innovation Movement: Milestone and Challenges
18:30 – 20:00
Venue: RJM Auditorium
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January 20, 2015
Time/Date
Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-I)
Innovations in healthcare devices, diagnostic and
service delivery (INHLTH)
Community Solidarity and Grassroots Institutions
(CSOL-GI)
Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC
Venue: Class Room - RJM Auditorium
Chair:
Richard Fletcher
Chair:
Prof. Catherine A Odora Hoppers
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Chair:
Ankur Sarin
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Faculty, MIT, USA
Co-Chair:
Elizabeth Mehta
Founder Director, Muktangan
09:00 – 11:00
Panelist:
1. Continuous Evaluation as a Transactional
Network: a feedback loop of
teachers/educators: The learning from
Muktangan model: Elizabeth Mehta, Founder
Director, Muktangan and Meenu Thomas,
Faculty, Muktangan
2. Vigyan Saralikaran Prakalp: Indu Parashar,
Founder, Navonnayan Shaikshanik evam Samajik
Sanstha, Indore
3. Exploring agency and multiple expressions:
creative arts program in a low income
secondary school model in Bangladesh: Alia
Kamal, Researcher, Institute of Educational
Co-Chair:
Keyur Sorathia
Faculty, IIT- Guwahati
Panelist:
1. Mobile Technologies for Global Health
Applications: Dr. Rich Fletcher, Research Scientist,
MIT, USA
DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development
Education, University of South Africa
Co-Chair:
Dr. Astad Pastakia
Advisor, SRISTI
Panelist:
1.
2. XrayTo3D: Conversion of 2D X-ray Images into 3D
Bone Models using Novel Algorithm: B. Ravi &
Vikas Karade, Mechanical Engineering Department, IITBombay
University, Ahmedabad
3. Human health and effect of Zn, Fe, Cu and Mn
deficiencies in soil on micronutrient uptake
pathways across soil-plant and animal or human
systems: V P Ramani et al, Micro Nutrients
2.
Departments, Anand Agriculture University, Anand
Development, BRAC University
4. Can teachers learn from children and build
upon their curiosity, compassion and
empathetic value system? Akanksha
Agarwal, Research Analyst, Design for Change
Challenges of Grassroots Innovation:
Designing effective organizations for weaver
community: Sumit Mitra, Faculty, IIM Kozhikode,
Suresh Kalagnanam, Faculty, Edwards School of
Business, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Margie
Parikh, Faculty, B.K. School of Management, Gujarat
4. Novel approaches for inspiring innovations in
healthcare - Keyur Sorathiya, Embedded Interaction
Lab (Elab), Technology for Social Innovation, IIT-Guwahati
5. Scintilla – a portable urine protein analyzer –
Prakash Parashar, IIT-Delhi
6. Mobile identification of High Risk Pregnancy
Biotourism: A Community Based Endeavour
for Promotion of Ecotourism and Local
Resource Based Employment Generation in
Himalaya: J P Maithani, Chairperson, AAGAAS
Federation
3.
Limits to Innovation in Indian Handicrafts:
Issues in Exclusion in Two Rural Clusters:
Keshab Das, Faculty, Gujarat Institute of
Development Research
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5. Pratham open school of education: Renu
Seth, Head, Second Chance Programme, Pratham
(MiHRP/CareMother) - Novel approach to
provide at door ANC Care and Reduce Maternal
Mortality: Shantanu Pathak et al, Lead Care Mother
4.
(MiHRP), Science for Society, Mumbai
Innovations – drive and driver: journey to
develop a unique system of plant moisture
application through System of Water for
Agricultural Innovation (SWAR) : K S Gopal,
Volunteer Director, Centre for Environment Concern,
Hyderabad
5.
Traditional Governments and the natural
resources management in Manipur, India: A
case study of Sekmai village: Rakesh
Khwairakpam, Doctoral Student, Tata Institute of
Social Science (TISS)
6.
A community operated compensation scheme
for crop damage by wild herbivores: Milind
Watve, Faculty, Indian Institute of Science, Education
and Research, (IISER) Pune, Abhijit Bayani, & Kajol
Patel, Indian Institute of Science, Education and
Research, (IISER) Pune
11:00 – 11:30
Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-I)
Tea Break
Doctoral Colloquium (DC)
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC
Indian Ecosystem for Inclusive Innovations (INECO)
Venue: Wing 11, Committee Room
11:30 – 13:00
Chair:
Ankur Sarin
Chair:
David Martin
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Founder, M CAM, USA
Co-Chair:
Sheshagiri Madhusudhan
Co-chair:
P. M. Shingi
Education specialist, UNICEF, Chhattisgarh
Visiting Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Chair:
Harkesh Mittal
Head, National S&T Entrepreneurship Development Board
Co-chair:
Suresh Yadav
OSD to the President, President’s secretariat, Rashtrapati
Bhavan, India
Panelist:
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Vipin Kumar
1. RTE watch: A civil society engagement to
strengthen RTE implementation in
Chhatisgarh: Sheshagiri Madhusudhan,
Education specialist, UNICEF, Chhattisgarh
2. Civil society and education reforms in India:
Praveen Khanghta, programme Manager, Central
Square Foundation and Bikkrama Daulet Singh,
Associate Director, Accountability and Governance,
Central Square Foundation
3. The story of Roshni: A humble attempt to
light the lamp of knowledge: Savita Bhagat,
Founder President, Roshni Educational Society and
Arun Bhagat, Faculty, DAV Centenary college,
Faridabad
Director, National Innovation Foundation – India
Panelist:
1. Exploring the grassroots innovation of
Bamboo bicycle in Imphal city of Manipur:
Geography of sustainability transitions
perspective: Thounaojam Somokanta, Doctoral
Student, Central University of Gujarat
2. Phenomenological approach to study the
essence of grassroots innovations: Rajul
Joshi, Research Scholar, Graduate School of Business,
University of Technology, Sydney
3. Understanding modes of creativity for
effective innovation in grassroots: Peer
Mohideen Sathikh, Faculty, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
4. Joint Initiative for village advancement:
Improving rural education through an
integrated, micro-level approach: Virendar
Khatana, Joint Initiative for Village Development
(JIVA)
5. Mobile matters: BRAC experiences in
mEducation: Mr. Wahid Newton, Program
Manager, BRAC
4. Identification and acceleration of farmer
innovativeness in upper East Ghana: Tobias
Wuncher, Senior Researcher, Centre for Development
Research, Ghana
5. Empowering rural lives - A success stories
from agri-business incubation program ICRISAT: S M Karuppanchetty, COO, Agri-Business
Incubation (ABI) program, ICRISAT
6. Innovative service delivery model to serve the
rural people: The VLE model: Ajith P and
Anita Goyal, Assistant Professor, KIIT School of Rural
Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
6
Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-II)
Doctoral Colloquium (DC)
Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-II):
Institutional Context and product Design
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC
Chair:
C. K. Koshy
Chair:
David Martin
Member, Governing Board, Gujarat Grassroots Innovation
Augmentation Network (GIAN)
Founder, M CAM, USA
Chair:
Aguinaldo dos Santos
Vishal Gupta
Head of the Design & Sustainability Research Center, Federal
University of Paraná, Brazil
Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room
Co-Chair:
Ankur Sarin
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Vishwanath Pingali
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:
14:00 – 15:30
1. Educational Transformers: Dare to Dream:
Anvit Phatak, Student, Pune University
2. Plugging leakage of Vulnerable student
supply chain: An innovative interventional
initiative: Narayan B Iyer, A. P. Jayaraman
and Ramakrishna Pillai A., Indian Development
Foundation
3. Changing dynamics of higher education
research and innovation in India: Key issue:
Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray, Doctoral Student,
Central University of Jammu
4. Shift from structured to unstructured
education system: Sachin Mandavgane,
Faculty, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology,
Nagpur
15:30 – 16:00
Co-Chair:
Ravi Poovaiah
IDC, IIT-Bombay
Panelist:
1. Organizing grassroots design: Epistemic
practices employed by members during the
design of technological innovations within
grassroots communities: Prashant Rajan,
Faculty, Department of English|Communication studies,
Iowa State University
2. Design of an efficient and ergonomic banglemaking furnace and tools: Davinder Pal
Singh, Shrey Gulati, S. K. Saha*, M. R. Ravi,
Sangeeta Kohli, RuTAG, IIT-Delhi
3. Low cost sustainable technologies for cold
arid desert: Shashi Bala Singh, Director, Defence
Institute of Physiology and Applied Science, DRDO, Delhi
4. The Himalayan Ecology Project: Aditi Singh
and Parag Anand, Faculty, Deptt of Industrial
Design, School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi
Tea Break
7
Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-II)
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Chair:
K. B. Jinan
Visiting Faculty, NID-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Ankur Sarin
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:
1. Innovation in Education: Introducing
creative training in language, intellect and
originality: Prasad Sundarajan, Editor, Genius
16:00 – 18:00
Choice
2. Chaging role of the teacher in building
environmental leadership skills amongst
students – experiences from student
environmental action: Annie Gregory and
Pramod Kumar Sharma, Programme officer,
Centre for Environmental Education
3. Empowering quality of primary education at
the grassroots level through volunteer
educators: An interpretive case based
analysis: Rajneesh Chaoubisa, Faculty, BITS
Pilani
4. Creating conditions for creativity in schools
by responding to the inherent nature of
child and biological nature of learning: K. B.
Jinan, Visiting Faculty, NID-Ahmedabad
Integrating women's knowledge creativity and
innovations in the innovation ecosystem (WCIN)
Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-II):
Institutional Context and product Design
Venue: Class Room, RJM Auditorium
Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room
Chair:
Asha Kaul
Chair:
Ashoke Chatterjee
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Former Director, National Institute of Design-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Usha Jumani
Co-Chair:
Amit Garg
Member, Governing Council, ETASHA Society, New Delhi
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:
Panelist:
1. Home Kaizen- an unique experiment of involving
workmen’s wives and families in workspace
ambience improvement: N S Mohanram, Advisor,
TVS Motor Company Ltd. and V Kovaichelvan, Senior
1. Using Fuzzy NPV for Appropriate Technology
Project Valuation in Indonesia, case study:
small holder coffee processing industry
development in Belu, East Nusa, Tenggara:
Yusuf Andriana, Elok Wahju Hidajat, Wawan
Agustina, Cahya Edi Wahyu Anggara,
Vice President, TVS Motor Company Ltd.
2. Mainstreaming gender for inclusive innovation
and development: Lindile Ndabeni, Faculty, Institute
for Economic Research on Innovation, Faculty of Economics
and Finance, Tshwane University of Technology
3. Governance by Women Leaders in Union
Parishad in Bangladesh: Unheard Voices and Grim
Realities from the Grassroots: Md. Mizanur
Rahman, Joint Director, Bangladesh Academy for Rural
Development
4. CADS’ strategies in expanding opportunities for
women and worker innovators in Zimbabwe :
Lillian Machivenyika, Director, Cluster Agriculture
Development Center for Appropriate Technology,
Indonesian Institute of Sciences
2. Involvement of Design Values, knowledge and
process for Grass root innovators to create
marketable products: Umang Shah, Sr.
Industrial Designer, LUMIUM
3. Case study: Giving voice to the farmers,
machine operators, local service providers
and small scale manufacturers in designing
scale-appropriate agro-machinery for Rural
Bangladesh: Sharmistha Banerjee, Faculty,
Department of Design, IIT-Guwahati
Development Service
5. Role of Micro Financial Institutions in enhancing
4. Crowdsourcing Transparency for Indonesia
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5. Relevance of gandhian education system
and economic model in contemporary
times: a case study: Mr Malay R Patel,
Doctoral Student, IIM-Indore and Prof. Patturaja
Selvaraj, IIM-Indore
Entrepreneurial skills among Minority (Islamic)
Women: An empirical study: Hema Srinivasan,
Research Scholar, Jain University, Bangalore and Padma
Srinivasan, Faculty, Christ College, Bengaluru
6. Medicinal plants used by farm-women to cure
disease and common ailments in Africa: Omede
Ugbede David, PG Student, Department of Agriculture
Extension, Junagadh Agriculture University and P.R
Kanani, Faculty, Department of Agriculture Extension,
Presidential Election: Elisa Sutanudjaja,
Administrator, Kawal Pemilu, Indonesia
5. A study of ethical issues concerning doctors,
pharmacists and pharmaceutical
representatives in the Indian health care
industry: Anula Gupta, Faculty, Department of
Management Studies, Government Engineering College,
Ajmer, Rajasthan
Junagadh Agriculture University, Gujarat
7. Policy Discourses & Ground Reality: A Need of
Social Justice for Innovative Practices at
Grassroots: Tanu Shukla, Faculty, Department of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology
& Science, Pilani, Rajasthan
8. 'Semiformal' as a Link between 'informal' and
'Formal' Systems in Society: Usha Jumani,
Member, Governing Council, ETASHA Society, New Delhi
18:00 – 18:30
18:30 – 20:00
Tea Break
Harnessing Innovations for and from extreme grassroots, street vendors
and other workers
Venue: RJM Auditorium
Chair:
Elaben Bhatt, Founder, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Keynotes:
Reema Nanavaty & Manali Shah, Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Dheeraj Agarwal, Developer, Street Saathi, Mumbai
Chitra Mukherjee, Manager, Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Sangeeta Singat, Manager, Street Food Programs, National Association of Street Vendors
Co-Chair:
Pradyuman Vyas, Director, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
of India (NASVI)
Rajesh Solanki, Dalit Hakk Rakshak Manch
Jaiprakash Chowdhury, Secretary, Safai Sena
Indu Prakash Singh, Executive committee member, Shahri Adhikar Manch:Begharon Ke
Saath (SAM:BKS)
Ashwin Parulkar, Centre for Equity Studies
Tarique Mohammad Quereshi, Faculty, Tata Institute of Social Science
Discussant:
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January 21, 2015
Time/Date
Quadra Helix: Linking Education, Culture, Institution and Technology
Venue: RJM Auditorium
09:00 –
11:00
11:00 –
11:30
Chair:
T. Ramasami, Former Secretary, Deptt. of Science & Technology (DST)
Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education, University of South Africa
Nitin Shukla, Chairman, Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN)
Pradip Khandwalla, Former Director, IIM-Ahmedabad
Tea Break
Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the
Grassroots (TT)
Networks for Innovators (NIN)
Technological Innovations (TIN)
Venue: Audi -1, KLMDC
Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room
Chair:
Franz W. Gatzweiler,
Chair:
Zhang Liyan
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Executive Director, ICSU-UNU-IAMP, Institute of Urban
Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Faculty, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics (TUFE),
China
Co-Chair:
Poornima Varma
Co-Chair:
Soumodip Sarkar,
Co-Chair:
Prof. Solomon Darwin
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Dean, Doctoral School, Institute for Advance Studies and
Research (IIFA), University of Evora, Portugal
Executive Director, Centre for Corporate Innovation, UC
Berkeley – Haas school of Business
Discussant:
Anupam Basu
Panelist:
Panelist:
1. Innovation Networks: Social Capital and
Successful Network Performance: Avantika Singh
and Rohit Mathur, Faculty, Department of
1. Policy support for innovation at grassroots in
developing countries: perspectives from
Nigeria: Chux Daniels, Science and Policy
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Chair:
Vijaya Sherry Chand
11:30 –
13:00
Head, Centre for Education Technology, IIT-Kharagpur
Panelist:
Management, Central University of Rajasthan
1. “Edusafar”- it as a tool for teacher networking,
information sharing and learning
2. India’s Rurban spurt - towards self sustaining
processes: Kamlesh Zapadiya, Shree Fulzar Sim
micro cities / living units and responsive policies
Primary School, Jasdan, Rajkot
& design: Shivaji, Architecture
Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
2. Innovations for and at grassroots in Russia:
Olga Ustyuzhantseva, Science and Policy
Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
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2. ”MY FAVORITE SCHOOL” -Multi grade and
multilevel learning system through short
stories without use of compound
consonants: Bhavesh Pandya, CRC-CO Deesa,
Banaskantha
3. Not Janta, not Jaadoo, and not Jugaad: A critical
reflection on the categorization of grassroots
community members as users, innovators, and
entrepreneurs: Prashant Rajan, Faculty, Department
of English|Communication studies, Iowa State University
3. Peer teacher-driven network for learning:
State Innovation and Research Foundation(SIRF): Sidharam Mashale, Solapur, Maharashtra
4. Garden of Entrepreneurial Theories: Soumodip
Sarkar, University of Evora, Portugal
4. “Vidyadham @ Boru”-individualised and peer 5. An Ecological Perspective of Integrating
learning with the help of information and
Grassroots Innovation into Rural Development
technology (smart class).-2011: Mehul Suthar,
Strategy: Carolina , Centre for Appropriate Technology
Vidyadham Boru Primary school, Mansa, Gandhinagar
Development, Indonesian Institute of Science
5. “BE NACHIKETA” – Voluntary Teachers’
6. Approaches to Pro-poor Grassroots Innovation
Network: Anand Thakar, Primary School Vadiyavala
Making in India in a Historical and Comparative
Pay Centre, Una, Junagadh
Way: A Critical Assessment: Dinesh Abrol et al,
Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru
6. “SAGAR SHALA”- A school for migrant Children
University, Delhi
and children of shifting fisherman
community: Dharmendra Kumar, Yusuf
7. Network of business and dynamics of
Meharally Centre, Bhadreshwar, Mundra, Kutch
internationalization of the S.M.E: Akdim Hamid,
Doctoral Student, Rennes University, France
8. Institutional and technological innovations in
polycentric order: Franz W. Gatzweiler, Executive
Director, ICSU-UNU-IAMP, Institute of Urban Environment,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
9. Interactions With Makers and Grassroots
Innovators: Anna Waldman-Brown, Fab Lab
Network, Ghana
10. How tradition society can questions the potential
of the smart city in Africa. The Low High Tech
experience in Togo: Agbodjinou Koffi, Researcher,
3. Temporal aspects of task partitioning in
open innovation projects: Shantam Shukla
et al, Doctoral student, IIM-Ahmedabad
4. Supporting grassroots innovation and
entrepreneurship in India: Reflection on two
case studies from Gujarat: Saumyaranjan
Sahoo, Doctoral student, Entrepreneurship
Development of India (EDII) and Astad Pastakia,
Development consultant
5. A study on evaluating factors of technology
innovation in rural Indian context:
exploratory factor analysis: Sonal Singh,
Scholar, IIT-Kharagpur and Bhaskar Bhowmick,
Asst Prof., IIT-Kharagpur
6. Smart micro-grid: a unique way to enlighten
India and eco empathic engineering for
grassroots: Lipi Chaya, Student, Nirma University
7. Interaction between grassroots innovators
and the formal sector in the creation and
diffusion of technological innovations in
rural China: Zhang Liyan and Liu Rui-han,
Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, (TUFE)
China
8. Evolutionary economics, innovation snail,
triple helix and other processes of economy:
Nikolay A. Badulin, Venture Capitalist, Russia
L'Africaine d'architecture
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13:00 –
14:00
Lunch Break
Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the
Grassroots (TT)
Early stage funding of Innovations
Honey Bee Network Collaborators, IIMA
Venue: Audi -1, KLMDC
Venue: Class Room-RJM Auditorium
Chair:
Sunil Parikh
Chair:
Gajendra Singh
Advisor, Zydus
Former President, Indian Society of Agriculture Engineers
(ISAE)
Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC
Chair:
Poornima Varma
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Vijaya Sherry Chand
Co-Chair:
Chintan Vaishnav
Faculty, MIT, USA
Co-Chair:
Ramesh Patel
Secretary, SRISTI
Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:
Discussant:
Anupam Basu
14:00 –
15:15
Head, Centre for Education Technology, IIT-Kharagpur
Gulshan Vashisth, NIF
Rakesh Maheshwari, NIF
Panelist:
Grassroots Innovators:
1. Quality in school education: real fuel for India’s
growth engine: Mohammad Mushir Khan,
Mansukhbhai Patel
Arvindbhai Patel
Pareshbhai Panchal
Student, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani,
Rajasthan
Colloborators:
P. Ganesham, Palle Srujana, Andhra Pradesh
Balaram Sahu, Paathe Paathsaala, Orissa
Sundaram Verma, Sikar, Rajasthan
P Vivekanandan, SEVA, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
2. Are students being effectively transformed?:
Rishabh Garg, Delhi Public School, Bhopal
3. Use of currency coins as learning resources to
create interest about history among secondary
school students: Rajesh Patil, Faculty, Saraswati
Juniors College, Akola, Maharashtra
4. Mother Tongue based Active Language
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Learning (M-TALL) is critical to Children’s
Quality Education: Binay Pattanayak, Education
Specialist, UNICEF office, Jharkhand
5. 21st Century Teaching technique to transform
passive classrooms to student centric learning
centers “A case of Nagpur Interactive Creative
Educations (NICE) Program: Sujit G. Metre,
Datta Meghe Institute of Management Studies, Nagpur
6. Use of Dramatization in teaching at Primary
School Level for Gujarati subject: Ashish
Thaker, Faculty, Revaba Sarvajanik College of Education,
Mehsana and Yupal Shukla, Faculty, V. M. Patel
College of Management Studies, Ganpat University
Interaction:
15:15 –
16:30
16:30 –
18:00
A P J Abdul Kalam
Former President of India
Venue: RJM Auditorium
Blending of Formal & Informal Science: experience of Honey Bee Network (FInF-HBN)
Venue: RJM Auditorium
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Chair:
Akshai Agarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University
Co-Chair:
Amit Dinda, Faculty, Department of Pathology, AIIMS
Discussant:
Gopal Kundu, Scientist, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune
Panelist:
1. Devkaranbhai Rabari, Innovator & Dhananjay Tiwary, Scientist, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
2. Late Shatrughna Prasad Vaidya, Traditional Knowledge Holder & Debprasad Chattopadhyay, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases
3. Khumaji Badaji Kataviya, Innovator & Sakarabhai Kallubhai Bhariya, Traditional Livestock Healer, Ravikumar R. K. & Vivek Kumar, NIF
4. Gulam Ahmad Magray, Hakeem Abdur Rehman, Robert, Rammeharsinh, Nida Afzal Khan, Shri Ombeer, Innovators Vijay Kumar et al, Microbiology Research
Lab, Christ Church College, Kanpur
5. Amirdaraj Kaaniv, Bhoodhathan Kaani, Ayyathurai Konar, Innovators, Vipin Kumar, Pawan K Singh, NIF Chandrashekhar V M, Department of Pharmacollogy,
Shri Kumreshwar college of pharmacy, Karnataka
6. Thakor Makvana Pachalbhai, NIF, Mrugesh Patel, Mamta B. Shah, L. M. College of Pharmacy & Samir K. Shah, Sardar Patel College of Pharmacy, Bakrol
7. Ghulam Hassan Qadiri, Badri Mahato, Abdul Rehman Sada, Gulam Hassa Pala, Tejal Gandhi, NIF & Tejal Gandhi, Anand Pharmacy College. Anand
18:00 –
18:30
Tea Break
Blending of Formal & Informal Science: experience of Honey Bee Network (FInF-HBN)
Venue: RJM Auditorium
Chair:
Akshai Agarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University
18:30 –
20:00
Co-Chair:
M. N. Patel, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University
Panelist
1. Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, Innovator-Pole Climber and Walnut Cracker & Nitin Maurya, NIF
2. Mohan Lal, Innovator-Z-Drive, Gulshan Vashistha, NIF & Binoy Kurian, Mentor
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3.
4.
5.
6.
Mansukhbhai Patel, Innovator-Cotton Stripper & Marianne Esders, Doctoral Student, Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University, Germany
Dharambir Kamboj, Innovator-Multipurpose Processing Machine & Anamika Dey, NIF
Khumujam Jina Devi, Innovator-Mangal Herbal Soap & Debati Devi, NIF
Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi, Innovator-Kudrat Reformer & Hardev Chaudhary, NIF
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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: RJM 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, RJM AUDITORIUM
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: RJM Auditorium
16:45 – 17:30
Rapporteurs' summarization on each track: Technological, Cultural,
Institutional and Educational
Valedictory Session
Venue: RJM Auditorium
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