ICCIG3 Conference Program

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January 19, 2015 – Day 1
Time Particular Venue
09:00 – 11:00 Introduction to ICCIG 3

  • 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
RJM Auditorium
11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break  
11:30 – 13:00 Plenary session on Inclusive Design
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)
RJM Auditorium
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:30 Gandhian Young Technology Innovation (GYTI): Linking Academics, Enterprise and Investors
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
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Bio-diversity, Value addition and local knowledge (BDV)
Chair: Kartikeya Sarabhai, Director, CEE – Ahmedabad
Co-Chair: S. Ragupathy, Chief Curator, BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Canada
Panelist:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Innovations in food processing industry: Ethnography of Bamboo shoot in Manipur: Wairokpam Premi Devi, Doctoral Student, Central University of Gujarat
  • Exploring the role of micro propagation innovation in Biodiversity erosion: a case of cultivated bananas in Andhra Pradesh: Prasanna Kumar K L, Research Scholar, Agri Biotech Foundation, Hyderabad
  • Bamboo and Innovation for Biodiversity conservation and sustainability in the Northeast India – Tapas Giri, Faculty, IIM-Shilong, Meghalaya
  • 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
  • Is all traditional knowledge community knowledge – Vivek Kumar, Scientist, NIF
  • 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
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Design for Making difference (D-MAD-1) Devising Sustainable solutions for Low income communities
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:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Green Technology for Clean Pond: Pradeep Sane, Manager, ONGC, Vadodara
  • Low income communities and crowd design: An approach for problem scouting: Aguinaldo dos Santos, Head, Design & Sustainability Research Center,
    Federal University of Parana, Brazil
  • Design, development and implementation of first flush system: Sourabh Bhati, UG student and Rajiv Gupta, Senior professor, BITS Pilani, Rajasthan
  • Eco-friendly toilets for sustainable world: V V Rangarao, IIT Hyderabad and G Shankar Narayan, Architect, Shankar Narayan Architects
  • 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
Wing-11, Committee Room
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break  
16:00 – 18:00 Exhibition of Innovation and Poster Presentation Cricket ground, IIM, Old Campus
18:00 – 18:30 Tea Break  
18:30 – 20:00 Evolution of Grassroots Inclusive Innovation Movement: Milestone and Challenges RJM Auditorium
January 20, 2015 – Day 2
Time Particular Venue
09:00 – 11:00 Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-I)
Chair: Ankur Sarin, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:Elizabeth Mehta, Founder Director, Muktangan
Panelist:

  • 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
  • Vigyan Saralikaran Prakalp: Indu Parashar, Founder, Navonnayan Shaikshanik evam Samajik Sanstha, Indore
  • 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
  • Can teachers learn from children and build upon their curiosity, compassion and empathetic value system? Akanksha Agarwal, Research Analyst, Design for Change
  • Pratham open school of education: Renu Seth, Head, Second Chance Programme, Pratham
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Innovations in healthcare devices, diagnostic and service delivery (INHLTH)
Chair: Richard Fletcher, Faculty, MIT, USA
Co-Chair: Keyur Sorathia, Faculty, IIT- Guwahati
Panelist:

  • Mobile Technologies for Global Health Applications: Dr. Rich Fletcher, Research Scientist, MIT, USA
  • XrayTo3D: Conversion of 2D X-ray Images into 3D Bone Models using Novel Algorithm: B. Ravi & Vikas Karade, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-Bombay
  • 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
  • Novel approaches for inspiring innovations in healthcare – Keyur Sorathiya, Embedded Interaction Lab (Elab), Technology for Social Innovation, IIT-Guwahati
  • Scintilla – a portable urine protein analyzer – Prakash Parashar, IIT-Delhi
  • Mobile identification of High Risk Pregnancy (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
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Community Solidarity and Grassroots Institutions (CSOL-GI)
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:

  • 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
  • Biotourism: A Community Based Endeavour for Promotion of Ecotourism and Local Resource Based Employment Generation in Himalaya: J P Maithani, Chairperson, AAGAAS Federation
  • Limits to Innovation in Indian Handicrafts: Issues in Exclusion in Two Rural Clusters: Keshab Das, Faculty, Gujarat Institute of Development Research
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
Class Room – RJM
11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break  
11:30 – 13:00 Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-I)
Chair:Ankur Sarin, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:Sheshagiri Madhusudhan, Education specialist, UNICEF, Chhattisgarh
Panelist:

  • RTE watch: A civil society engagement to strengthen RTE implementation in Chhatisgarh: Sheshagiri Madhusudhan, Education specialist, UNICEF, Chhattisgarh
  • 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
  • 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
  • Joint Initiative for village advancement: Improving rural education through an integrated, micro-level approach: Virendar Khatana, Joint Initiative for Village Development (JIVA)
  • Mobile matters: BRAC experiences in mEducation: Mr. Wahid Newton, Program Manager, BRAC
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Doctoral Colloquium (DC)
Chair:David Martin, Founder, M CAM, USA
Co-chair:P. M. Shingi, Visiting Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Indian Ecosystem for Inclusive Innovations (IN-ECO)
Chair: Harkesh Mittal, Head, National S&T Entrepreneurship Development Board
Co-chair:Suresh Yadav, OSD to the President, President’s secretariat, Rashtrapati Bhavan, India
Vipin Kumar, Director, National Innovation Foundation – India
Panelist:

  • 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
  • Phenomenological approach to study the essence of grassroots innovations: Rajul Joshi, Research Scholar, Graduate School of Business, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Understanding modes of creativity for effective innovation in grassroots: Peer Mohideen Sathikh, Faculty, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Identification and acceleration of farmer innovativeness in upper East Ghana: Tobias Wuncher, Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Research, Ghana
  • Empowering rural lives – A success stories from agri-business incubation program ICRI-SAT: S M Karuppanchetty, COO, Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) program, ICRISAT
  • 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
Wing 11, Committee Room
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:30 Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-II)
Chair:
C. K. Koshy, Member, Governing Board, Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN)
Co-Chair:Ankur Sarin, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:

  • Educational Transformers: Dare to Dream: Anvit Phatak, Student, Pune University
  • Plugging leakage of Vulnerable student supply chain: An innovative interventional initiative: Narayan B Iyer, A. P. Jayaraman and Ramakrishna Pillai A., Indian Development Foundation
  • Changing dynamics of higher education research and innovation in India: Key issue: Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray, Doctoral Student, Central University of Jammu
  • Shift from structured to unstructured education system: Sachin Mandavgane, Faculty, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Doctoral Colloquium (DC)
Chair:
David Martin, Founder, M CAM, USA
Vishal Gupta, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Vishwanath Pingali, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-II): Institutional Context and product Design
Chair:
Aguinaldo dos Santos, Head of the Design & Sustainability Research Center, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Co-Chair:
Ravi Poovaiah, IDC, IIT-Bombay
Panelist:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Low cost sustainable technologies for cold arid desert: Shashi Bala Singh, Director, Defence Institute of Physiology and Applied Science, DRDO, Delhi
  • The Himalayan Ecology Project: Aditi Singh and Parag Anand, Faculty, Deptt of Industrial Design, School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi
Wing-11, Committee Room
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break  
16:00 – 18:00 Civic Innovation in Education (CIV-II)
Chair:
K. B. Jinan, Visiting Faculty, NID-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Ankur Sarin, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:

  • Innovation in Education: Introducing creative training in language, intellect and originality: Prasad Sundarajan, Editor, Genius Choice
  • 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
  • Empowering quality of primary education at the grassroots level through volunteer educators: An interpretive case based analysis: Rajneesh Chaoubisa, Faculty, BITS Pilani
  • 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
  • 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
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Integrating women’s knowledge creativity and innovations in the innovation ecosystem (WCIN)
Chair:
Asha Kaul, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Usha Jumani, Member, Governing Council, ETASHA Society, New Delhi
Panelist:

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • CADS’ strategies in expanding opportunities for women and worker innovators in Zimbabwe : Lillian Machivenyika, Director, Cluster Agriculture Development Service
  • Role of Micro Financial Institutions in enhancing Entrepreneurial skills among Minority (Islamic) Women: An empirical study: Hema Srinivasan, Research Scholar, Jain University, Bangalore and Padma Srinivasan, Faculty, Christ College, Bengaluru
  • 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
  • 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
  • ‘Semiformal’ as a Link between ‘informal’ and ‘Formal’ Systems in Society: Usha Jumani, Member, Governing Council, ETASHA Society, New Delhi
Class Room, RJM
  Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-II): Institutional Context and product Design
Chair:
Ashoke Chatterjee, Former Director, National Institute of Design-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Amit Garg, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Panelist:

  • 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
  • Involvement of Design Values, knowledge and process for Grass root innovators to create marketable products: Umang Shah, Sr. Industrial Designer, LUMIUM
  • 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
  • Crowdsourcing Transparency for Indonesia Presidential Election: Elisa Sutanudjaja, Administrator, Kawal Pemilu, Indonesia
  • 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
Wing-11, Committee Room
18:00 – 18:30 Tea Break  
18:30 – 20:00 Harnessing Innovations for and from extreme grassroots, street vendors and other workers
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

RJM Auditorium
January 21, 2015 – Day 3
Time Particular Venue
09:00 – 11:00 Quadra Helix: Linking Education, Culture, Institution and Technology
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

RJM Auditorium
11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break  
11:30 – 13:00 Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the Grassroots (TT)
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:

  • “Edusafar”- it as a tool for teacher networking, information sharing and learning processes: Kamlesh Zapadiya, Shree Fulzar Sim Primary School, Jasdan, Rajkot
  • "MY FAVORITE SCHOOL" -Multi grade and multilevel learning system through short stories without use of compound consonants: Bhavesh Pandya, CRC-CO Deesa, Banaskantha
  • Peer teacher-driven network for learning: State Innovation and Research Foundation-(SIRF): Sidharam Mashale, Solapur, Maharashtra
  • “Vidyadham @ Boru”-individualised and peer learning with the help of information and technology (smart class).-2011: Mehul Suthar, Vidyadham Boru Primary school, Mansa, Gandhinagar
  • “BE NACHIKETA” – Voluntary Teachers’ Network: Anand Thakar, Primary School Vadiyavala Pay Centre, Una, Junagadh
  • “SAGAR SHALA”- A school for migrant Children and children of shifting fisherman community: Dharmendra Kumar, Yusuf Meharally Centre, Bhadreshwar, Mundra, Kutch
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Networks for Innovators (NIN)
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:

  • Innovation Networks: Social Capital and Successful Network Performance: Avantika Singh and Rohit Mathur, Faculty, Department of Management, Central University of Rajasthan
  • India’s Rurban spurt – towards self sustaining micro cities / living units and responsive policies & design: Shivaji, Architecture
  • 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
  • Garden of Entrepreneurial Theories: Soumodip Sarkar, University of Evora, Portugal
  • An Ecological Perspective of Integrating Grassroots Innovation into Rural Development Strategy: Carolina , Centre for Appropriate Technology Development, Indonesian Institute of Science
  • 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
  • Network of business and dynamics of internationalization of the S.M.E: Akdim Hamid, Doctoral Student, Rennes University, France
  • Institutional and technological innovations in polycentric order: Franz W. Gatzweiler, Executive Director, ICSU-UNU-IAMP, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Interactions With Makers and Grassroots Innovators: Anna Waldman-Brown, Fab Lab Network, Ghana
  • 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
Audi -1, KLMDC
  Technological Innovations (TIN)
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:

  • Policy support for innovation at grassroots in developing countries: perspectives from Nigeria: Chux Daniels, Science and Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
  • Innovations for and at grassroots in Russia: Olga Ustyuzhantseva, Science and Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
  • Temporal aspects of task partitioning in open innovation projects: Shantam Shukla et al, Doctoral student, IIM-Ahmedabad
  • 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
  • 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
  • Smart micro-grid: a unique way to enlighten India and eco empathic engineering for grassroots: Lipi Chaya, Student, Nirma University
  • 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
  • Evolutionary economics, innovation snail, triple helix and other processes of economy: Nikolay A. Badulin, Venture Capitalist, Russia
Wing-11, Committee Room
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:15 Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the Grassroots (TT)
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:

  • Quality in school education: real fuel for India’s growth engine: Mohammad Mushir Khan, Student, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan
  • Are students being effectively transformed?: Rishabh Garg, Delhi Public School, Bhopal
  • Use of currency coins as learning resources to create interest about history among secondary school students: Rajesh Patil, Faculty, Saraswati Juniors College, Akola, Maharashtra
  • Mother Tongue based Active Language Learning (M-TALL) is critical to Children’s Quality Education: Binay Pattanayak, Education Specialist, UNICEF office, Jharkhand
  • 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
  • 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
Audi-2, KLMDC
  Early stage funding of Innovations
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
Audi -1,  KLMDC
  Honey Bee Network Collaborators, IIMA
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

Class Room-RJM
15:15 – 16:30 A P J Abdul Kalam, Former President of India RJM Auditorium
16:30 – 18:00 Blending of Formal & Informal Science: experience of Honey Bee Network (FInF-HBN)
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:

  • Devkaranbhai Rabari, Innovator & Dhananjay Tiwary, Scientist, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
  • Late Shatrughna Prasad Vaidya, Traditional Knowledge Holder & Debprasad Chattopadhyay, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases
  • Khumaji Badaji Kataviya, Innovator & Sakarabhai Kallubhai Bhariya, Traditional Livestock Healer, Ravikumar R. K. & Vivek Kumar, NIF
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thakor Makvana Pachalbhai, NIF, Mrugesh Patel, Mamta B. Shah, L. M. College of Pharmacy & Samir K. Shah, Sardar Patel College of Pharmacy, Bakrol
  • Ghulam Hassan Qadiri, Badri Mahato, Abdul Rehman Sada, Gulam Hassa Pala, Tejal Gandhi, NIF & Tejal Gandhi, Anand Pharmacy College. Anand
RJM Auditorium
18:00 – 18:30 Tea Break  
18:30 – 20:00 Blending of Formal & Informal Science: experience of Honey Bee Network (FInF-HBN)
Chair:
Akshai Agarwal, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University
Co-Chair:
M. N. Patel, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat University
Panelist

  • Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, Innovator-Pole Climber and Walnut Cracker & Nitin Maurya, NIF
  • Mohan Lal, Innovator-Z-Drive, Gulshan Vashistha, NIF & Binoy Kurian, Mentor
  • Mansukhbhai Patel, Innovator-Cotton Stripper & Marianne Esders, Doctoral Student, Centre for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University, Germany
  • Dharambir Kamboj, Innovator-Multipurpose Processing Machine & Anamika Dey, NIF
  • Khumujam Jina Devi, Innovator-Mangal Herbal Soap & Debati Devi, NIF
  • Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi, Innovator-Kudrat Reformer & Hardev Chaudhary, NIF
RJM Auditorium
January 22, 2015 – Day 4
Time Particular Venue
09:00 – 11:00 Brain storming on Inclusive Innovation through linkage between formal and Informal sectors RJM Auditorium
  Science and Technology Connecting Higher Education with Grassroots (S&T)
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:

  • Outcome of farmer participatory research approach in farm mechanization: M.D. Vora, Faculty, College of Agriculture Engineering & Technology, Anand Agriculture University, Gujarat
  • Rooting Frugality in Science and Engineering: Balkrishna C. Rao, Faculty, Department of Engineering Design, IIT-Madras
  • Accelerating technology innovations in institutions of higher learning: P B Sharma and Ashok Kumar Raghav, Faculty, Amity University, Gurgaon, Haryana
  • Factors explaining students’ inclination towards entrepreneurship: empirical study of ethiopian university students: Buzeye Zegeye, College of Business and Economics, Department of Management, Wollo University, Ethopia
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mason guide tools for masonry construction in mitigating effects of earthquakes: Hemant Kumar Vinayak, Faculty, NIT, Hamirpur & Rajnish Srivastava, Director, NIT, Hamirpur
  • Changing dynamics of higher education research and innovation in india: key issues: Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray, Doctoral Student, Central University of Jammu
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and Diffusion (FNF)
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:

  • Dynamics of technology commons: A case of Bullet Santi: Mahesh Patel, NIF
  • 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
  • Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in Sahel (PROFEIS) Case of Mali: Djibril Diarra, Souleymane Diarra, Ousmane B. Diallo, Abdou Y. Maiga, Samba Traoré & Assetou Kanoute, Coordinator, PROFEIS, Prolinnova, Mali
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
Wing-11, committee Room
11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break  
11:30 – 13:00 Open & Democratic access to knowledge for grassroots communities (OPDC)
Chair:
Sanjay Verma, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Arul George Scaria, Faculty, NLU (Delhi)
Panelist:

  • 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
  • National Digital Literacy Mission: Harnessing Collective Energies for a Digitally Literate India: Shrikant Sinha, Chief Operating Officer, NASSCOM Foundation
  • 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)
  • Conceptualising Grassroots Innovation Systems in India: Hemant Kumar, Center for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar
  • 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
Audi-2. KLMDC
  Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL)
Chair:
Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, Sahapedia
Co-Chair:
Susantha Goonatilake, President, Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka
Discussant:
Judy Frater, Founder Director, Somaiya Kalavidya
Panelist:

  • Making Indian Culture and Its Cultural Diversity Innovative: Nazir Parwez, Faculty, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
  • ‘Pabuji Ki Phad’ a lost art or a social need: Dinesh Yadav, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan
  • 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
  • Folk Route: Changing Preferences in Urban Spaces: Utpala Desai, Visiting Faculty, JG College of Performing Arts and HK Arts College, Ahmedabad
  • Intangible heritage transformations- Patachitra of Bengal exploring modern New Media: Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai, Faculty, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (UG), (SIMC-UG), Pune
  • Intervention framework for transforming survival appropriations of music-skilled rural artistic and innovative persons with disability 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
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and Diffusion (FNF)
Chair:
Vasanth Shetty. Dean (Vety) & OSD, Veterinary College, Karnataka
Co-Chair:
Sanjeev Saxena, Chief Scientist, Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR)
Premlata Singh, Faculty, Agriculture Extension, IARI
Panelist:

  • Farmers’ rights and sustainable agriculture development: Hardev Chaudhary, NIF
  • Holistic land and livestock management: James Chawarika, Community Worker, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
Wing-11, committee Room
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:30 Open & Democratic access to knowledge for grassroots communities (OPDC)
Chair:
Sanjay Verma, Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad
Co-Chair:
Arul George Scaria, Faculty, NLU (Delhi)
Panelist:

  • 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
  • Innovative strategies for using social media, e-commerce and other platforms to link grassroots to Global markets: Ruma Agwekar, Founder, Petals
  • Open and Democratic Access to Knowledge for Grassroots Communities: Arul George Scaria, Faculty, NLU (Delhi)
  • Dealing with Citizens Grievances in a Smart City: Dipti Gupta, Student, IIM-Ahmedabad
  • Spreading the good word: harnessing social media for diffusing grassroots frugal innovations: Chintan Vinod Shinde et al, SRISTI
Audi-2. KLMDC
  Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL)
Chair:
Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, Sahapedia
Co-Chair:
Pravin Mishra, Faculty, Mudra Institute of Communication
Panelist:

  • 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
  • Up scaling Local Creative Artisan ARCH Cluster: Case of Metalware Cluster in South India: V. P. Sriraman et al, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy
  • Creativity & innovation of the traditional Craftsmen of Kashmir Handmade Pashmina- perspective from the grassroots level: Asma Bashir, Central University of Jammu
  • Max Weber’s Bureaucracy and Buddhist Monastic Organisation as Possible Templates for Management: Susantha Goonatilake, President, Royal Asiatic Society, Srilanka
Audi-1, KLMDC
  Coping Creatively with Climate Change
Chair:
Gurdeep Singh, Vice Chancellor, Vinoba Bhave University
Co-chair:
Lillian Machivenyika , Director, Cluster Agriculture Development Studies (CADS), Zimbabwe
Panelist:

  • CADS’ experience in promoting agro-biodiversity in the face of climate change in Zimbabwe: Lillian Machivenyika, Director, Cluster Agriculture Development Studies (CADS), Zimbabwe
  • 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
  • Nexus of Climate change and food insecurity 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
  • 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
  • Farmers’ creativity in coping with climate risks: a study of paddy farmers in eastern Uttar Pradesh: Anamika Dey
  • 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
Class Room – 1, RJM
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break  
16:00 – 16:45 Discussion on Ahmedabad Declaration RJM Auditorium
16:45 – 17:30 Rapporteurs’ summarization on each track: Technological, Cultural, Institutional, Educational
Valedictory Session
RJM Auditorium