FW: Invitation for Third International Conference onCreativity and Innovations at Grassroots, Jan 19-22, 2015
Shivam
Shivam Kesari
From: Anna da Costa
Sent: 06-10-2014 08:37
To: Development Creative
Subject: [DevCreative] Invitation for Third International Conference onCreativity and Innovations at Grassroots, Jan 19-22, 2015
From: Prof. Anil K Gupta <ic...@iimahd.ernet.in>
Date: 30 September 2014 14:37
Subject: Invitation for ICCIG 2015
To: ameda...@gmail.com
Dear Anna,
Increasing concern for sustainability has focused attention of academics, practitioners, corporate, social and public policy leaders towards extremely affordable frugal products and services. A quarter century of exploration by Honey Bee Network has generated several models of engagement with creative and innovative communities and individuals in different domains. The first ICCIG was held in January 1997 leading to establishment of Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network [GIAN] and later National Innovation Foundation [NIF]. The second ICCIG was held in China and India in December 2012 to connect creative pursuits around the world. The third ICCIG aims at pooling insights from research, policy and practices in education, technology, institutions, culture, conservation and governance.
The conference welcomes the presentation in different formats including performances, exhibitions, posters and research papers. Community representatives are specially invited to connect with each other and help the formal sector to understand and appreciate their knowledge systems.
The policy makers and corporate leaders will find conference as a unique platform for engaging with open innovation community promoting dialogue and partnership between formal and informal sector of science, technology, services and society.
Please submit your abstracts and proposals for special workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions and performances to ic...@iimahd.ernet.in.
Various institutions involved with Honey Bee Network such as NIF, Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] and GIAN are supporting the conference to share their learning and also to absorb the wisdom around the world in leveraging grassroots innovations. Please submit your abstracts by September 30, 2014 with full papers due by 30 November, 2014. Those desirous of booking their accommodation during the conference may send a mail toicci...@gmail.com. All logistical enquiries may be sent at the same address. If you are willing to partner in the organization of the conference as a sponsor, co-sponsor or supporter, please write to me at an...@iimahd.ernet.in.
Please share the enclosed announcement widely among your networks.
Looking forward to your active participation,
Best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Anil K Gupta
First Announcement:
Third International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG], January 19-22, 2015
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Giving voice, visibility and velocity to creativity and innovative potential of common people at grassroots has been the key goal of inclusive development. Honey Bee Network has emerged as a committed new social movement in support of knowledge rich, economically poor people. In order to enrich the ecosystem for inclusive and empathetic innovations, the Third ICCIG will pool the insights from the ground and global playfields of ideas, institutions and initiatives.
Twenty five years ago, Honey Bee Network started to raise the voice for collaboration between formal and informal sectors, respect for local/indigenous knowledge for conservation of biodiversity and associated knowledge system, sharing of benefits through ethical supply chains and recognizing, respecting, rewarding local communities and individual innovators and traditional knowledge holders. Today, the concern for inclusive innovation has become much more widespread but the voice of the knowledge rich, economically poor people and the youth is still not heard adequately.
We invite the young (in body and/or mind) scholars, academics, corporate leaders, policy makers, activists, administrator, local community representatives, organizational leaders, various social and cultural networks engaged in empowerment of local creativity, public and private initiatives for making society more fair and just in dealing with various segments.
Key themes:
1. Institutional transformation:
1.1. Common property resource institutions play a critical role in sustainable natural resource management at all levels in society. We need to learn from indigenous/local institutions, which have succeeded in managing resources well for so long. The concern for conservation has been declining while designing infrastructure projects and various urban and rural interventions. How to give voice to perfect strangers and other natural beings is becoming a big challenge for conservationists.
1.2. Public/private, civil society institutions create norms for exchange of knowledge, information, resources and ideas across formal and informal sectors. How do we create mutuality in the norm setting processes in both the sectors?
1.3. The crafted institutions often fail to build upon existing institutional infrastructure. The political economy of existing institutions needs careful analysis to expand the space and scope for disadvantaged people. The grafted institutions build upon existing norms and values and therefore may have higher sustainability. The issue needs to be debated and elaborated.
1.4. Public delivery systems impact the life of almost every citizen world over. The mantra of public-private partnership has broken new ground but has also sometimes led to unfair exploitation of social and natural resources. The need for transparency and social accountability has triggered a lot of experiments and innovations in public systems. These need to be consolidated so that the change agents involved in these transformations can ally themselves with other creative people.
2. Educational innovations
2.1. How do teachers at primary or secondary school level transform educational context in government schools in which the poorer children often study, can their creativity become the hub of educational policy?
2.2. How do we democratize the access of disadvantaged children to the high quality content and mentors?
2.3. Can teachers learn from children, and build upon their curiosity, compassion and empathetic value system?
2.4. The academia-industry-informal sector linkage in higher education is weak, what are the strategies which have worked? Can techpedia.in model illuminate such linkages worldwide?
2.5. Can innovations by technological youth become a pivot of frugal engineering, products and services for the inclusive development? How can students of higher education search, spread, celebrate innovations and sense the unmet needs of various societies?
2.6. Innovation in governance of education need to be tracked and transferred across institutional and cultural boundaries for more democratic and transparent systems.