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International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG] Centre for Management in Agriculture, IIM-Ahmedabad

Email: iccig@iimahd.ernet.in Time/Date January 19, 2015

09:00 – 11:00

Introduction to ICCIG 3 Venue: RJM Auditorium 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

11:30 – 13:00

Plenary session on Inclusive Design

Venue: RJM Auditorium

Chair: Raghunath A. Mashelkar, Chairperson, National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF-India)

Ashish Nanda*, Director, IIM-Ahmedabad

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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14:00 – 15:30

Gandhian Young Technology Innovation (GYTI): Linking Academics, Enterprise and Investors Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Chair: Shailendra Mehta Provost – Ahmedabad University

Co-Chair: Mahesh Murthy Founder, Pinstorm

Rajnish Shrivastava Director, NIT-Hamirpur

Discussant: Sunil Parekh 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

Bio-diversity, Value addition and local knowledge (BDV) Venue: Audi – 1, KLMDC Chair: Kartikeya Sarabhai Director, CEE – Ahmedabad

Co-Chair:

S. Ragupathy 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,

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

University of Gujarat

4. Exploring the role of micro propagation

Design for Making difference (D-MAD-1) Devising Sustainable solutions for Low income communities Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room Chair: Shashi Buluswar Executive Director, Institute for Globally Transformative Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, USA Co-Chair: Amos G Winter Faculty, Deptt of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, USA Discussant: Chintan Vaishnav Faculty, MIT, USA

Panelist:

1. Design for multiple life cycles: A teaching-learning 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

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

Curator, BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario,

University of Guelph, Canada and Sathishkumar, Faculty, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

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

15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 – 18:00

Exhibition of Innovation and Poster Presentation Venue: Cricket ground, IIM, Old Campus

18:00 – 18:30 Tea Break

18:30 – 20:00 Evolution of Grassroots Inclusive Innovation Movement: Milestone and Challenges Venue: RJM Auditorium

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Time/Date January 20, 2015

09:00 – 11:00

Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-I) Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Chair: Ankur Sarin Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad Co-Chair: Elizabeth Mehta Founder Director, Muktangan 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

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

Innovations in healthcare devices, diagnostic and service delivery (INHLTH)

Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC

Chair: Richard Fletcher Faculty, MIT, USA

Co-Chair: Keyur Sorathia Faculty, IIT- Guwahati

Panelist:

1. Mobile Technologies for Global Health Applications: Dr. Rich Fletcher, Research Scientist,

MIT, USA

2. XrayTo3D: Conversion of 2D X-ray Images into 3D Bone Models using Novel Algorithm: B. Ravi & Vikas Karade, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-

Bombay

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

Departments, Anand Agriculture University, Anand

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

Community Solidarity and Grassroots Institutions (CSOL-GI) Venue: Class Room - RJM Auditorium Chair: Prof. Catherine A Odora Hoppers DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education, University of South Africa Co-Chair: Dr. Astad Pastakia Advisor, SRISTI Panelist:

1. 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

University, Ahmedabad

2. 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

(MiHRP), Science for Society, Mumbai

4. 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 Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00

Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-I) Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Chair: Ankur Sarin Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad Co-Chair: Sheshagiri Madhusudhan Education specialist, UNICEF, Chhattisgarh Panelist:

Doctoral Colloquium (DC) Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC Chair: David Martin Founder, M CAM, USA

Co-chair: P. M. Shingi Visiting Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Indian Ecosystem for Inclusive Innovations (IN-ECO) Venue: Wing 11, Committee Room Chair: Harkesh Mittal Head, National S&T Entrepreneurship Development Board Co-chair: Suresh Yadav OSD to the President, President’s secretariat, Rashtrapati Bhavan, India

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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

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

Vipin Kumar 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. 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 ICRI-SAT: 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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14:00 – 15:30

Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-II) Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Chair: C. K. Koshy Member, Governing Board, Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN)

Co-Chair: Ankur Sarin Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad Panelist:

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

Doctoral Colloquium (DC) Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC Chair: David Martin Founder, M CAM, USA

Vishal Gupta Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Vishwanath Pingali Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-II):

Institutional Context and product Design

Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room

Chair:

Aguinaldo dos Santos Head of the Design & Sustainability Research Center, Federal

University of Paraná, Brazil

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 bangle-making 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

15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break

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16:00 – 18:00

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

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) Venue: Class Room, RJM Auditorium Chair: Asha Kaul Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Usha Jumani Member, Governing Council, ETASHA Society, New Delhi

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

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 Service 5. Role of Micro Financial Institutions in enhancing

Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-II): Institutional Context and product Design Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room Chair: Ashoke Chatterjee Former Director, National Institute of Design-Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Amit Garg Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Panelist:

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, 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

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,

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

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

18:00 – 18:30 Tea Break

18:30 – 20:00

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)

Co-Chair: Pradyuman Vyas, Director, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

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

of India (NASVI) 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:

Rajesh Solanki, Dalit Hakk Rakshak Manch Jaiprakash Chowdhury, Secretary, Safai Sena

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Time/Date January 21, 2015

09:00 – 11:00

Quadra Helix: Linking Education, Culture, Institution and Technology Venue: RJM Auditorium 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

11:00 – 11:30

Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00

Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the Grassroots (TT) Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Chair: Vijaya Sherry Chand Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Poornima Varma Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Discussant: Anupam Basu Head, Centre for Education Technology, IIT-Kharagpur

Panelist:

1. “Edusafar”- it as a tool for teacher networking, information sharing and learning processes: Kamlesh Zapadiya, Shree Fulzar Sim

Primary School, Jasdan, Rajkot

Networks for Innovators (NIN) Venue: Audi -1, KLMDC Chair: Franz W. Gatzweiler, Executive Director, ICSU-UNU-IAMP, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Co-Chair: Soumodip Sarkar, Dean, Doctoral School, Institute for Advance Studies and Research (IIFA), University of Evora, Portugal

Panelist:

1. Innovation Networks: Social Capital and Successful Network Performance: Avantika Singh and Rohit Mathur, Faculty, Department of

Management, Central University of Rajasthan

2. India’s Rurban spurt - towards self sustaining micro cities / living units and responsive policies & design: Shivaji, Architecture

Technological Innovations (TIN) Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room Chair: Zhang Liyan Faculty, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics (TUFE), China Co-Chair: Prof. Solomon Darwin Executive Director, Centre for Corporate Innovation, UC Berkeley – Haas school of Business

Panelist:

1. Policy support for innovation at grassroots in developing countries: perspectives from Nigeria: Chux Daniels, Science and Policy

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. Peer teacher-driven network for learning: State Innovation and Research Foundation-(SIRF): Sidharam Mashale, Solapur, Maharashtra

4. “Vidyadham @ Boru”-individualised and peer learning with the help of information and technology (smart class).-2011: Mehul Suthar, Vidyadham Boru Primary school, Mansa, Gandhinagar

5. “BE NACHIKETA” – Voluntary Teachers’ Network: Anand Thakar, Primary School Vadiyavala

Pay Centre, Una, Junagadh

6. “SAGAR SHALA”- A school for migrant Children and children of shifting fisherman community: Dharmendra Kumar, Yusuf

Meharally Centre, Bhadreshwar, Mundra, Kutch

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

4. Garden of Entrepreneurial Theories: Soumodip Sarkar, University of Evora, Portugal

5. An Ecological Perspective of Integrating Grassroots Innovation into Rural Development Strategy: Carolina , Centre for Appropriate Technology

Development, Indonesian Institute of Science

6. Approaches to Pro-poor Grassroots Innovation Making in India in a Historical and Comparative Way: A Critical Assessment: Dinesh Abrol et al, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru

University, Delhi

7. Network of business and dynamics of 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, L'Africaine d'architecture

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

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13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:15

Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the Grassroots (TT) Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Chair: Poornima Varma Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Vijaya Sherry Chand Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Discussant: Anupam Basu Head, Centre for Education Technology, IIT-Kharagpur

Panelist:

1. Quality in school education: real fuel for India’s

growth engine: Mohammad Mushir Khan, Student, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani,

Rajasthan

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

Early stage funding of Innovations Venue: Audi -1, KLMDC Chair: Sunil Parikh Advisor, Zydus

Co-Chair: Chintan Vaishnav Faculty, MIT, USA

Panelist:

Gulshan Vashisth, NIF Rakesh Maheshwari, NIF

Grassroots Innovators:

Mansukhbhai Patel Arvindbhai Patel Pareshbhai Panchal

Honey Bee Network Collaborators, IIMA Venue: Class Room-RJM Auditorium Chair: Gajendra Singh Former President, Indian Society of Agriculture Engineers (ISAE)

Co-Chair: Ramesh Patel Secretary, SRISTI

Colloborators: P. Ganesham, Palle Srujana, Andhra Pradesh Balaram Sahu, Paathe Paathsaala, Orissa Sundaram Verma, Sikar, Rajasthan P Vivekanandan, SEVA, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

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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

15:15 – 16:30

Interaction:

A P J Abdul Kalam Former President of India

Venue: RJM Auditorium

16:30 – 18:00

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

18:30 – 20:00

Blending of Formal & Informal Science: experience of Honey Bee Network (FInF-HBN) Venue: RJM Auditorium Chair: Akshai Agarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University 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. Mansukhbhai Patel, Innovator-Cotton Stripper & Marianne Esders, Doctoral Student, Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University, Germany 4. Dharambir Kamboj, Innovator-Multipurpose Processing Machine & Anamika Dey, NIF 5. Khumujam Jina Devi, Innovator-Mangal Herbal Soap & Debati Devi, NIF 6. Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi, Innovator-Kudrat Reformer & Hardev Chaudhary, NIF

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Time/Date January 22, 2015

09:00 – 11:00

Brain storming on Inclusive Innovation through linkage between formal and Informal sectors

Venue: RJM Auditorium

Science and Technology Connecting Higher Education with Grassroots (S&T) Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC Chair: Vasant Gandhi Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Vijay Paul Sharma Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Discussant: Rakesh Maheshwari Co-ordinator, Technology Business Incubator (TBI), NIF

Panelist:

1. Outcome of farmer participatory research approach in farm mechanization: M.D. Vora, 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,

Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and Diffusion (FNF) Venue: Wing-11, committee Room Chair: Raghuvir Chaudhary Director, Grambharti Amrapur Trust

Co-Chair: Dinesh Awasthi Director, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII)

Quinton C. Kanhukamwe Vice Chancellor, Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe Panelist:

1. Dynamics of technology commons: A case of Bullet Santi: Mahesh Patel, NIF

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

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

7. Mason guide tools for masonry construction in mitigating effects of earthquakes: Hemant Kumar Vinayak, Faculty, NIT, Hamirpur & Rajnish Srivastava, Director, NIT, Hamirpur

8. Changing dynamics of higher education research and innovation in india: key issues: Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray, Doctoral Student, Central

University of Jammu

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. 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)

6. 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

11:00 – 11:30

Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00

Open & Democratic access to knowledge for grassroots communities (OPDC) Venue: Audi-2. KLMDC Chair: Sanjay Verma Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL) Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC Chair: Sudha Gopalakrishnan Executive Director, Sahapedia

Co-Chair:

Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and Diffusion (FNF) Venue: Wing-11, committee Room Chair: Vasanth Shetty

Dean (Vety) & OSD, Veterinary College, Karnataka

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Co-Chair: Arul George Scaria Faculty, NLU (Delhi)

Panelist:

1. An Electronic Platform For Facilitating Financial Trading Of Non-Exclusive License Of Technology: Akhilesh Gupta and Kamal Rabha, Center for Industrial Technology &

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

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

Innovation Policy, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar

Susantha Goonatilake President, Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka

Discussant: Judy Frater

Founder Director, Somaiya Kalavidya

Panelist:

1. Making Indian Culture and Its Cultural Diversity Innovative: Nazir Parwez, Faculty,

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. Intangible heritage transformations- Patachitra 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

Co-Chair: Sanjeev Saxena Chief Scientist, Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)

Premlata Singh Faculty, Agriculture Extension, IARI Panelist:

1. Farmers’ rights and sustainable agriculture development: Hardev Chaudhary, NIF

2. Holistic land and livestock management: James Chawarika, Community Worker, Harare,

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

14:00 – 15:30

Open & Democratic access to knowledge for grassroots communities (OPDC) Venue: Audi-2. KLMDC Chair: Sanjay Verma Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad

Co-Chair: Arul George Scaria Faculty, NLU (Delhi)

Panelist:

1. Learning and creativity based use of informal knowledge in the horticulture sector of Jammu and Kashmir: Sheeraz Ahmed Alaie, Doctoral Student, Central

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

Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL) Venue: Audi-1, KLMDC Chair: Sudha Gopalakrishnan Executive Director, Sahapedia

Co-Chair: Pravin Mishra Faculty, Mudra Institute of Communication

Panelist:

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

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-

Coping Creatively with Climate Change Venue: Class Room – 1, RJM AUDITORIUM

Chair: Gurdeep Singh Vice Chancellor, Vinoba Bhave University

Co-chair: Lillian Machivenyika Director, Cluster Agriculture Development Studies (CADS), Zimbabwe

Panelist:

1. CADS’ experience in promoting agro-biodiversity 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 – 18:00

16:00 – 16:45 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