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Mapping and Tapping hotspots of creativity: Learning from a resource in which poor people are rich in
The document by Anil K. Gupta emphasizes the importance of grassroots innovations and their potential to drive inclusive and empathetic solutions in various sectors. It highlights the need for a change in perspective to recognize and promote creativity among marginalized communities, while also advocating for a sustainable approach to innovation that benefits both people and the environment. Key themes include mapping creative hotspots, learning from failures, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across different sectors.
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- 1. anil k gupta Founder,Honey Bee Network SRISTI, GIAN and NIF Visiting faculty, IIMA & IITB CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow Anilg.sristi.org Mapping and Tapping hotspots of creativity: Learning from what poor people are rich in
- 2. grassroots frugal innovations: HBNGiving voice, visibility and velocity
- 3. Shodhyatra: learning walksacross the country to fertilize our imagination by recognising frugal grassroots innovations & knowledge systems
- 4. Drivers of innovationsin India Frugality Resilience Diversity Networking Inclusion Open, reciprocal and responsible innovations; spawning start-up culture
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- 7. A change notmonitored is a change not desired: towards inclusive innovations how often have we scouted and spawned creative innovative voices from outside the projects/institutions. Are we listening, learning and leveraging the innovations from/for Grassroots to reach the unreached bypassed/neglected spaces, sectors, risky seasons, skills, social groups and structures of governance
- 8. Five key conceptual transformations Innovationsare imperative, when constraints are over bearing(a) Innovations are not visible often because we look for them in wrong places (b) Innovation may not always be recognized as one, by people used to it (c) Inclusive innovations are also empathetic solutions, empathy (samvedana) emanates from deep personal immersion (d) Frugality for consumer is not nature, it should also be for nature and future generations (e)
- 9. Five key Logistical transformations: a)Supply chains of Products/services not as they just are, but as they could be b)One in hand is often better than two in bush c)Learning from unexpected quarters, children and others: open innovations d) Big data, engaging with youth, mapping creativity, performance, excellence, oddity, techpedia.in e)Spawning sustainable circular and frugal economy thinking
- 10. Samvedana: driver ofinclusion Ethical fulcrum of empathy? Where are the fertile grounds for sprouting seeds of empathetic innovations?
- 11. Unleashing creativity at masslevel : Mapping, monitoring and mentoring The hotspots of creativity
- 12. Key lessons forlearners: a)Creativity is not uniformly distributed, even if it has potential to be so b)Not all creative ideas become innovations c)Not all innovations are desirable d)Unless we promote learning from external innovations, we don’t value internal innovations either e)Recognizing, respecting and rewarding innovations
- 13. Simplicity and visuality: 4000-40,000 years, Bhimbetka cave paintings Frugality is not just for poor
- 14. A change notMonitored is a change not desired: say upload to download ratio
- 15. The day Iam not surprised, I have not learned Many grassroots innovators are persistent experimenters and improvisers: that’s why sometimes they don’t succeed in market place
- 16. Triggers of curiosity Appetitefor surprise Celebration of Oddity Intrigued by Unknown Playful explorer How to be an innovator
- 17. Seeking affirmation too often,from too many creates inertia Innovators are often headstrong, they don’t listen to everybody, or every time
- 18. • Taming/chasing Tornadoes –Finding super talent through super challenge – Nesting creativity in spider’s web that braves storms
- 19. Need for imperfect beginnings:public policy is at times, a muddling through process Let not the best become the enemy of better: incremental innovations matter Good Public policies implemented weakly or vice versa
- 20. Falling is notfailure Learning across domains How to learn from an in innovation
- 21. Saga of ahandpump: inclusive, sust design We lived with this waste for centuries
- 22. The solution • Newhand pump had a provision of 25% water donation for the animal trough, which is collected from the runoff- Swayambhu Sharma, Rajasthan • A provision of about 1 liter water storage inside the head of the pump which can be utilized through a tap for use as a drinking source just by pumping once
- 23. If some waterstill outflows, it goes to animal drinking trough: inclusion of non human sentient beings too
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- 25. Technology is like words, institutionsare like grammar and culture is like thesaurus Three pillars of sustainability
- 26. Will we havethe humility to learn from Ms Ram Timari Devi Champaran, jan 2009, How else could have i done it? The only choice,
- 27. Learning platforms from concreteto abstract 1) Artefactual - similar form is replicated 2) Analogic - metaphor/analogy to inspire 3) Heuristic - as a model or principle 4) Gestalt - configurational level Gupta, 2012, Own compilation
- 28. Learning is easy, inertiarequires effort, institutional sanctions collusion or team work, policy induced blinkers
- 29. Will these feet Remaintired Celebrating induced vulnerability as a part of culture Is a ploy most societies have used to institutionalise gender biases Overcoming learned helplessness
- 30. Our knowledge isfor survival: the world cares for material accumulators, not knowledge acumulators Unmet expectations Will their voice get velocity and visibility? Why do we have so few projects building upon viable knowledge of women?
- 31. Andhra Pradesh Meghalaya Mizoram Energy: Dowe harvest efficiently? Tripura Energy: Do we harvest it efficiently Who can teach us well?
- 32. g2G Grassroots to Global Millionsof entrepreneurial minds A consumer from around the world places an order for traditional food/pickle Logistics firm collects appropriate package from a packaging firm; Picks up the products fro a micro- entrepreneur, delivers to the consumer globally Autonomy versus agency
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- 34. Springboard of sustainability Purposeis not to replicate models: Idea is to create an upward spiral of insights, innovations and institutions
- 35. Applying AI and Blockchainfor poor: Blockchain of niche products, organic, hand crafted, traditional food and art Traceability, transparency, transportability
- 36. Can slow flowsustain? Conventional rule of the game “the big eats the small” changes to “the fast eats the slow” And future is When Slow lightens the load, takes the more load farther Or existing load at lesser cost And “time eats the cost” Can slower highways be sustainable Do we need fast lane for information all the time?
- 37. Learning from unexpectedquarters
- 38. Frugal Innovation: ShaliniKumari, Class 8, Patna, Bihar, Licensed to a company, Avira Tech NIF engaged a design firm to develop a prototype Empathetic innovations: learning from children
- 39. Step lock systemin 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.
- 40. If a personis sitting in a wrong posture, an alarm will start ringing and not stop until the person corrects the posture. Or the screen of the computer go blank with a message, “sit properly, else I will not let you do work” Posture correcting chair Kulsoom Rizvi, 5, Lucknow, UP & Tarun Anand, 10, Hardoi, UP
- 41. Low cost Brailleprinter 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.
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- 43. A public innovation for publicuse Jharkhand
- 44. Innovation is simple yet soobscure roots of inertia
- 45. Big Data: agrossly neglected resource in India Where are the hot spots of nutritional sufficiency, lack of water borne diseases, higher average productivity of cattle, zero crime rate, educational excellence, highest number of graduates
- 46. Internet of Things( IOT) to Internet of things, thoughts (IOTT), feelings and being: pets, plants and people Alert system for injured animals Diva Sharma, class 12
- 47. Engaging youth withunmet social, ecological, small industrial needs: www.techpedia.in • initiative to link academia, society and industry techpedia.in (a portal by SRISTI ( sristi.org) pooling 200,000+ engineering projects by 550k students from over 500 institutions) - engaging with youth in the one of the youngest country • Gyti.techpedia.in awards at Festival of Innovations and Entrepreneurship, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, 2018 •
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- 49. Letting children bekey actor: a challenge not yet fully met Linking people, Pedagogy, process, passion, platform and purpose
- 50. Triggering Start-up, creativitesolution culture in and around organizations
- 51. 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
- 52. Grassroots Innovations areNOT Jugaad: short-cuts or jugaad erode the will to make durable sustainable innovations
- 53. Shall we takenotice of innovation only when it falls out of place?
- 54. Key questions fordiscussions: a) How do we overcome our inertia, get surprised every day at least once before questioning societal inertia? What was our download to upload ratio last week?? How much public knowledge goods did we contribute last month? b) How do we spot innovations, spawn them in their favourable niches, sustain them through derivative innovations, through incentives individually, collectively, materially and non materially? c) How to link technological innovations with institutional, cultural and policy innovations? Any case where we failed, or succeeded, why? d) How do we institutionalize the culture of imperfect beginnings, not letting idea and embedded energy die before we have thought through full plan for action? e) Do we need special skills for cross-sectoral applications of innovations, artefactually, analogically, heuristics or gestalt? What are these new skills? f) Do we process data we already have enough? Are there patterns that we have failed to see and later these became apparent, then we realized we had seen them? g) How does Honey Bee Network help in building volunteer based culture, supported by action-research on learning to unlearn?
- 55. Creativity counts Knowledge matters Innovationstransform Incentives inspire (not just individual, but also collective, not just material, but also non-material) Join the Honey Bee Network! For rewarding creativity and innovation www.techpedia.in, www.sristi.org, WWW.GIAN.org, www.nif.org.in anilg@sristi.org