January 21, 2015
Time/Date
Quadra Helix: Linking Education, Culture, Institution and Technology
Venue: RJMCEI 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, Retired Faculty, 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-RJMCEI
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: RJMCEI Auditorium
Blending of Formal & Informal Science: experience of Honey Bee Network (FInF-HBN)
Venue: RJMCEI 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: RJMCEI 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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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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