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innovations in public systems: who will bell the cat?
Posted on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:13:34 |
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May be not many people noticed two of the important recommendations of the 13th Finance commission ( FC). One was to create an institutional framework for systematic scouting, documentation and replication of innovations in public systems which make the impact on the lives of common people. A Centre for Innovations in Public Systems has been set up at ASCI, Hyderabad and was launched today by cabinet secretary. The analysis of innovations collected by 13FC from all the states were analysed by National Innovation Foundation to make two recommendations to mainstream the search and scaling up the innovations for improving the public systems. Second recommendation was to create a District Innovation Fund of Rs one crore in each district. Both these will hopefully make a small difference to the innovation environment in the country. Dr Vijay Kelkar, Chairman of the 13FC was incidentally the Finance Secretary when NIF was set up ten years ago drawing upon the experience of Honey Bee netwo |
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Dreaming a museum of innovations and crazy creativity: where will it happen? Will children be my allies?
Posted on Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:04:17 |
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After all, there are so many science parks and museum, there are also technology parks, art and culture museum every where but where is an innovation museum and that too of innovations and traditional knowledge of common people?
Let me share what kind of innovation museum I am thinking about and may be it will make some files move. Some action will be hopefully triggered. Our children will get a chance to be inspired. They might prevail upon their parents and other elders to change their mindset., and overcome their inertia
Idea is that tens of thousands of green grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge examples that Honey Bee Network (sristi, gian, and NIF and numerous collaborators ) have scouted from over 545 districts need to be visible to our children and others so that they will be inspired to make experiments. They will refuse to live with so many social, economic and technological problems that have remained unsolved for decades or even centuries in some ca |
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Underdog Creativity
Posted on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:24:44 |
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Free condoms are used to lubricate machines and transport water, men declared dead try to get arrested to prove they are alive
BY Shubhangi Swarup
open magazine, aug 14, 2010, an excellent read, does it need any further comment, find it out yourself |
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