Minds on the margin are not

marginal minds

Surpassing expectations

Of People by

Learning from them

anil k gupta

IIMA, NIF, honey bee network,

anilg@sristi.org

monitoring context changes the content

Let us recognise potential of knowledge rich-economically poor people

Innovations are easy

Method

Old New

Old Application New

Old Material/instruments new

A Lesson for learners

A change not monitored is a change not desired (g, 1984)

Honey Bee Network founded in 1987-1988

A nameless, faceless innovator comes into contact with the Network and gets an

identity.

Intellectual

capital

Ethical Capital

( internal regulations)

Social capital Trust, reciprocity and third part sanctions

External regulation

Intellectual property ( that part of ic from the

commercial applications of which,

one can exclude others for a

given period of time)

Natural

capital

( commoditization of

resources, stored,

sold, exchanged,

controlled) Source: Gupta, 2001

Building upon four capitals for sustaining innovations

CREATING open source PUBLIC STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Patamda, Puruliya –bankura

shodhyatra

Meghalaya

Technology is like words, institutions

are like

grammar and

culture is like

thesaurus

Three pillars of sustainability

A public innovation for public use: Jharkhand

Service at your door step: Sheikh Jahangir, Jalgaon, Maharshtra

Fortune at the Top of Ethical and Innovation Pyramid

Scooter mounted flour mill Scooterbased washing machine

learning from common people: Saidullah, champaran, Bihar

Blending

love, learning and loving

learning love

living

Solutions for the poor and the rich, by the poor: but this is not Jugaad,

Non stick clay pan: Rs 60 /= Mansukh Bhai Prajapati, Surendra Nagar, Gujarat

Mansukhbhai : Mitticool Product Range

Automated Circular Kiln that Mansukhbhai made specially for the baking tawas and diyas

Low Cost Wind mill Mehtar Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmad, Assam Over 35 units installed in salt farming regions of Gujarat to improve livelihood of poor salt farmers

Innovation by Mehtar Husain and his brother Mushtaq Ahmed from Assam to Gujarat

Several African countries have shown interest to get this technology

Just 70 Euro

Stronger, durable version, 900 euro, saves diesel worth 700 euro in one season of salt making

Innovations and traditional

knowledge

Investment Enterprise

GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF CREATIVITY

Mind to market: the case of herbavate

Herbvate: a skin ointment

• It is based on the knowledge of seven innovators from six districts Sabarkanth, Panchmahal, Dang, Mahsana, Patan and Bhavnagar of Gujarat. Herbavate exhibits remarkable properties against eczema and variety of inflammatory and infectious skin conditions.

Communities: The innovators of Herbavate: 1. Amratbhai Shankarbhai Rawal, Mehsana Gujarat. 2. Kunjubhai Kakadiyabhai Bhoya, Dang Gujarat 3. Pujabhai Dabhi, Sabarkantha, Gujarat 4. Karshanbhai Parmar, Sabarkantha Gujarat 5. Laxmanbhai Pagi, Panchmahal, Gujarat 6. Lilabhai Rawal, Patan Gujarat 7. Lakhabhai Becharbhai Khatana, Bhavnagar Gujarat

g2G

grassroots to global Global GIAN – Building Global Value

Chain for augmentation of Green

Grassroots Innovations

Sales made

1. Coconut tree climber- USA (Florida, Massachussets, California, Hawaii etc.) Australia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Mexico, West Indies

2. Pomegranate deseeder-Turkey, USA

3. Garlic peeling machine-Pakistan

4. Arecanut husker- Singapore

5. Milking machine-Phillipines, Uganda, Ethiopia

6. Resin grading machine-Peru

7. Cassava peeling machine-kenya

8. Herbal growth promoters-Ghana

Product enquiries:

Sl no. Innovation/product Countires

1 Coconut/palm tree climbing device USA, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Iran, West Indies

2 Entech oil expeller USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Phillipines, Canada, Kenya, Colombia, S. Africa, Switzerland, Poland, Indonesia, Belgium

3 Garlic peeling machine Slovenia, USA, Turkey, Peru, Singapore, Iran , Venezuela, Pakistan

4 Pomegranate deseeding machine USA, Australia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hongkong, Israel, Netherlands, Thailand, UAE, Iran, United Kingdom

5 Cassava peeling machine Congo, USA, Benin, Nigeria, Kenya, UAE, Uganda

6 Aaruni tilting cart Uganda

7 Coconut defibring machine China

8 Coconut dehusker Mexico, New Zealand, USA, Philippines, Bangladesh

9 Lemon cutting machine S. Africa

10 Milking machine Bangladesh, Uganda, Ecuador

11 Palm leaf mat weaving machine Fiji

12 Rain Gun (Chandraprabha) Sudan

13 Tea making machine Bangladesh,

14 Tile making machine Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia

15 Trench digging machine Pakistan

16 Zero head water turbine Egypt

17 Arecanut dehusking machine Chile

The President of India honours grassroots innovators, launches National Innovation Clubs and hosts an innovation exhibition at the President’s house; NIF becomes an Institute of Department of Science and Technology

Initiative to Institutionalisation

The former President awards children innovators every year at the IGNITE Award function by NIF at IIMA Initiative to Institutionalisation

Education

EDUCATION

Educational Innovation

Why do we not have a database of teachers in government schools who

have achieved all the goals of quality education without any extrinsic reward or motivation?

Why have we not included any lesson based on innovations by common people in the textbooks for schools and colleges?

Why is there no social innovation fund to invest in educational innovations by teachers?

Why do we not have an open access multi-media, multi language database of open source content for our children?

National Innovation Clubs:

• Search: Celebrating the decade of innovation by mapping the creativity and innovations in the hinterland

• Spread: Disseminating/Cross-pollinating innovations across spaces, social segments and sectors

• Sense or Benchmark: Identifying the roots of persistent problems and the mindsets that trigger their continued tolerance in society and solve problem, add value and develop product/service

• Celebrate: Recognising achievers in different social segments

Name of Product Sristi Rakshak

Innovator Shri Banidan Mavjibhai Gadhvi

Shri Arkhiben Mithabhai Vanakar

Shri Ranabhai Gigabhai Kamaliya

Shri Rajanikant Keshabhai Patel

Shri Ahemadbhai Daudbhai KadiwalaShri Gemalsingh Rana

Shri Karshanbhai Manajibhai Chaudhary

Name of Product Sristi Krushak

Innovator Shri Popatbhai Rupabhai Jambucha

Shri Dhirubhai Bhemabhai Nayak

Shri Salvi Swetha Reddy

Shri Naranbhai Samjibhai Solanki

Name of the Product Sristi Mosq HitInnovator Community Knowledge

Composition

Nagod (Vitex negundo )

Camphora (Cinnamomum camphora )

Bavchi (Posrelia Carylifolia )

 Cream base

Neutraceutical cookies

Some Lessons

• Lesson one: Problem is not innovation, but lack of attention to the emerging ideas.

• Lesson two: Scaling up is important but long tail of innovation is even more important

• Lesson three: Benchmarking the need and delivery gaps

• Lesson four: Investing in risky ideas when they are still hazy is the key to entrepreneurial future

Learning platforms: from concrete to abstract

• 1. Artefactual - as a replication of solution level

• 2. Analogically - metaphor to inspire

• 3. Heuristically - as a model or principle

• 4. gestalt - configurational level

• Gupta, 2012, Own complilation

Some leaves from the lives of public adm innovators

Karnataka Sakala Services Act

2011

Sakala means “in time” - Name, Logo, Slogan were proposed by Citizens.

SAKALA – No More Delays…We Deliver on Time

Most sought after services Department SERVICE most sought

(cumulative)

TOTAL NO. OF GSC DISPOSALS

Revenue All types of Caste & Income Certificate 7916942

Transport Learning Licence 810841

Urban Issue of Birth, Still Birth and Death Certificates

362141

Food Modification in Existing Ration Card 751322

Home Receipt and Disposal of Petitions 229014

Commercial Tax Issue of form C Declaration 1284627

Call Centre • A bridge b/w citizens & Government (8 am to 6 pm all working

days)

• Single no. for the State - 080- 4455 4455.

• Over 3 CRORES calls received so far. About 98 per cent request were serviced with in time

• So far 865 Sakala & 1750 Non Sakala complaints received .

Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

Future sources of learning, creativity and innovation would not be

restricted to formal boundaries of organisations.

Polycentric Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

Creating networks:

No one organization is likely to possess sufficient information or knowledge to enable it to achieve its goals

Emerging Models of innovations

• New models of innovations:

a) Building upon what disadvantaged people are rich in: inability to live with problems unsolved –overcoming inertia

b) Empathetic innovations: samvedana se srijansheelta, kho kho model of innovation ( innovation relay )

c) Going beyond long tail, long nose of innovations to turbulent innovations

Models of innovations:

d) Inverted model of innovations: children invent, engineers fabricate, and companies commercialize

e) Pooling of distributed ideas for innovation and experimentation : uncommon from common

f) distributed mind management: www.techpedia.in, transcending the limits of frugality

g) Moving blackboards: learning from unexpected quarters

Curiosity is thy nature, indifference is ours?????????

How can we scout innovative ideas from kids , tech students, informal sector and professional individuals?

Nisha Chaube NOIDA Bag with folding seat

Arnab from, West Bengal

Arnab, west bengal

Mohammed Usman Hanif Patel, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, class two

www.techpedia.in

• recently a new initiative techpedia.in, (a portal by SRISTI ( sristi.org) pooling 104,000 engineering projects by 350k students from over 500 institutions) etc., engaging with youth in the one of the youngest country

•

Shanu sharma: vardan, iitk

raghunath p Lohar

Image, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis for

deaf and dumb to talk to normal people

Saurabh Saket and Rahul Ranjan , Bhutta College of Engineering & Technology, Ludhiana

Has any big company given you fridge that also gives you hot water, keeps food warm and consumes less electricity

Lpg gas based refrigerator Chintan, mayank, biren Mehsana

Hot water from fridge Dhruv Mehsana

Exhaust pipe cools drivers cabin ` coep pune

Innovations and traditional

knowledge

Investment Enterprise

GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF CREATIVITY

Take away

Finally, innovations are imperative, inclusion is inevitable and inertia is intolerable

Seeds of impatience will thrive in the soil of sustainable

experimentation we need Circular economy, social and ethical capital and

entrepreneurial mindset Begin with past perfect to build credibility rather than future

indefinite Grassroots innovation can transform, policy transformation can

energize and open innovation models can connect

Agenda for action:

• Educational innovation: recognizing innovative teachers, open source content for children, linking students with msme and informal sector

• Social innovation fund, culture of and in creativity, redesigning District Innovation Fund,

• Spending an hour a week with achievers of your department, learning and sharing

• Inclusive Innovation Fund needs to be set up for investing in young start ups

• Every organization can harness creativity and innovation from with-in, but more importantly from outside—crowd sourcing

• Each person can be an innovator, unlock the locks we have put in place ourselves

• Distributed knowledge is a reality: why not reciprocate idea givers better

Creativity counts

Knowledge matters

Innovations transform

Incentives inspire ( not just individual, but also collective, not just

material, but also non-material)

the Honey Bee Network is yours !

For rewarding indigenous creativity and innovation

www.techpedia.in, www.sristi.org, www.nif.org.in

anilgb@gmail.com