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 - RJMCEI
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
Head, FLAME Centre for Executive Education, Pune
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
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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
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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, RJMCEI
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: RJMCEI 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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