Panel Outline with Papers
Third International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG III]
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
January 19th -22nd 2015
| Day 1: Jan 19, 2015 | |
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| Design for Making a Difference (D-MAD-1): Devising Sustainable Solutions for Low Income Communities Chair: Dr Shashi Buluswar Executive Director LIGTT: Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley, CA. USA Co-Chair: |
1. Design for Multiple Life Cycles: A teaching-learning pedagogy for designing products for multiple life cycles: Amaltas Khan and Puneet Tandon 2. Between open hardware and grassroots innovation: The case of the Global Village Construction Set: Mr. Justin Pickard and Dr. Georgina Voss 3. Green Technology for Clean Pond: Pradeep Sane 4. Low Income Communities and Crowd Design: An Approach for Problem Scouting:Aguinaldo dos Santos 5. Design, Development and Implementation of First Flush System: Sourabh Bhatiand Rajiv Gupta 6. Eco-friendly toilets for sustainable world: V VRangarao and G. Shankar Narayan 7. Design education: empirical investigations of design theory in practice in specific context, DipankaBoruah and Amarendra Kumar Das |
| Biodiversity, Value addition and local Knowledge (BDV) Chair: Kartikeya Sarabhai, Director, CEE-Ahmedabad Co-Chair: S. Ragupathy, Chief Curator, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Canada Time: 14:00-15:30 Venue: CR-1, KLMDC |
1. Impact of the Medicinal Plant Conservation Area (MPCA), a conservation technique, on rural development: Mohan, Almora District, Uttarakhand: Nikita Kala 2. Adaptation of Environment friendly entrepreneurship for forest wastemanagement and livelihood generation- A case study:Prabir Kumar Panda and AnaljyotiBasu 3. Innovations in Food Processing Industry: Ethnography of Bamboo Shoot in Manipur: WairokpamPremi Devi 4. Exploring the role of Micro Propagation Innovation in Biodiversity erosion: A case of cultivated bananas in Andhra Pradesh: Prasanna Kumar K. L 5. Bamboo and innovation for biodiversity conservation and sustainability in the North East India: Tapas K Giri 6. How to Recognize the Role of Pastoralists / Livestock keepers in conservation of animal biodiversity: P. Vivekanandan et al. 7. DNA barcoding in the context of conservation and protection of biocultural diversity/local knowledge: Ragupathy and Sathishkumar |
| Day 2: Jan 20, 2015 | |
| Civic Innovations in Education (CIV-I and II) Session 1 – 09:00-11:00 Papers: 1-5 Chair: Co-Chair: Session 2- 11:30-13:00 Papers: 6-10 Chair: Co-Chair: Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC Session 3- 14:00-15:30 Papers: 11-14 Chair: Co-Chair: Session 4- 16:00-18:00 Papers: 15-19 Chair: Co-Chair: |
1. Continuous Evaluation as a Transactional Network: a feedback loop of teacher educators, teachers and students: Elizabeth Mehta and Meenu Thomas 2. VigyanSaralikaranPrakalp: Indu Parashar 3. Exploring agency and multiple expressions: Creative arts program in a low income secondary school model in Bangladesh: Alia Kamal 4. Can teachers learn from children, and build upon their curiosity, compassion and empathetic value system?: Akanksha Agarwal 5. Pratham Open School of Education : Renu Seth 6. RTE Watch: A civil society engagement to strengthen RTE Implementation in Chhattisgarh: Sheshagiri Madhusudhan 7. Civil Society and Education Reforms in India: Praveen Khanghta and BikkramaDaulet Singh 8. The Story of Roshni: A Humble Attempt to Light the Lamp of Knowledge: Savita Bhagat 9. Joint Initiative for Village Advancement: Improving Rural Education through an Integrated, Micro-level Approach: Virendar Khatana 10. Mobile matters: BRAC experiences in mEducation, Wahid Newton 11. Educational Transformers: Dare to Dream: Anvit Phatak 12. Plugging Leakage of Vulnerable Student Supply Chain: An Innovative Interventional Initiative: Narayan B.Iyer and A. P. Jayaraman 13.Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Research and Innovation in India: Key Issues: Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray 14. Shift from Structured to Unstructured Education System: Sachin Mandavgane 15. Innovation in Education:Introducing Creative Training inLanguage, Intellect, and Originality: Prasad Sundararajan 16. Changing role of the teacher in building environmental leadership skills amongst students – experiences from student environmental action: Annie Gregory and Pramod Kumar Sharma 17. Empowering Quality of Primary Education at the Grassroots Level through Volunteer Educators: An Interpretive Case Based Analysis: Rajneesh Chaoubisa 18. Creating conditions for creativity in schools by responding to the inherent nature of child and biological nature of learning : K B Jinan 19. Relevance of Gandhian Education System and Economic Model in Contemporary Times: A case study: Malay R. Patel and Patturaja Selvaraj |
| Community Solidarity and Grassroots Institutions (CSOL-GI) Chair: Catherine A. Odora Hoppers DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education University of South Africa Co-Chair: Time: 09:00-11:00 |
1. Challenges of Grassroots Innovation: Designing effective organizations for weaver community : Sumit Mitra et al. 2. Biotourism: A Community Based Endeavour for Promotion of Ecotourism and Local Resource Based Employment Generation in Himalaya: J P Maithani 3. Limits to Innovation in Indian Handicrafts: Issues in Exclusion in Two Rural Clusters: Keshab Das 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 5. Traditional Governments and the natural resources management in Manipur, India: A case study of Sekmai village: Rakesh Khwairakpam 6. A community operated compensation scheme for crop damage by wild herbivores: MilindWatve et al. |
| Indian Ecosystem for Inclusive Innovations (IN-ECO) Chair: Mr. Harkesh Mittal Head, National S & T Entrepreneurship Development Board Co-Chair: Mr. Vipin Kumar Time: 11:30-13:00 |
1. Exploring the Grassroots Innovation of Bamboo Bicycle in Imphal City of Manipur: Geography of Sustainability Transitions Perspective: Thounaojam Somokanta 2. Phenomenological Approach to Study the Essence of Grassroots Innovations: Rajul Joshi 3. Understanding Modes of Creativity for Effective Innovation at Grassroots: Peer MohideenSathikh 4. Identification and Acceleration of Farmer Innovativeness in Upper East Ghana: Tobias 5. Empowering Rural Lives – A Success Stories from Agri-Business Incubation Program, ICRISAT: S M Karuppanchetty 6. Innovative Service Delivery Model to Serve the Rural People: The VLE Model: Ajith P and Anita Goyal |
| 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 Time: 14:00-15:30, 16:00-18:00 Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room |
1. Organizing grassroots design: Epistemic practices employed by members during the design of technological innovations within grassroots communities: Prashant Rajan 2. Design of an efficient and ergonomic bangle-making furnace and tools: Davinder Pal Singh et al. 3. Low cost sustainable technologies for cold arid desert: ShashiBala Singh 4. The Himalayan Ecology Project: Aditi Singh and ParagAnand 5. Using Fuzzy NPV for Appropriate Technology Project Valuation in Indonesia: Yusuf Andrianaet al. 6. Involvement of Design Values, knowledge and process for Grass root innovators to create marketable products: Umang Shah 7. 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 8. Crowdsourcing Transparency for Indonesia Presidential Election: Elisa Sutanudjaja 9. A study of ethical issues concerning doctors, pharmacists and pharmaceutical representatives in the Indian health care industry: Anula Gupta |
| Integrating women’s knowledge creativity and innovations in the innovation ecosystem (WCIN) Chair: AshaKaul Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad Co-Chair: Time: 16:00-18:00 |
1. Home Kaizen- an unique experiment of involving workmen’s wives and families in workspace ambience improvement: N S Mohanram and V Kovaichelvan 2. Mainstreaming gender for inclusive innovation and development: Lindile Ndabeni 3. Governance by Women Leaders in Union Parishad in Bangladesh: Unheard Voices and Grim Realities from the Grassroots: Md. Mizanur Rahman 4. CADS’ strategies in expanding opportunities for women and worker innovators in Zimbabwe:Lillian Machivenyika et al. 5. Role of Micro Financial Institutions in enhancing Entrepreneurial skills among Minority (Islamic) Women: An empirical study: Hema Srinivasan and Padma Srinivasan 6. Medicinal plants used by farm-women to cure disease and common ailments in Africa: Omede Ugbede David and P.R Kanani 7. Policy Discourses & Ground Reality: A Need of Social Justice for Innovative Practices at Grassroots: Tanu Shukla 8. ‘Semiformal’ as a Link between ‘informal’ and ‘Formal’ Systems in Society: Usha Jumani |
| Day 3: Jan 21, 2015 | |
| Teachers as Transformers: The Classroom as the Grassroots (TT) Session 1 (Papers 1-6): 11:30-13:00 Chair: Vijaya Sherry Chand Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad Session 2 (Papers 7-12): 14:00-15:15 Venue: Audi-2, KLMDC |
1. “Edusafar”- it as a tool for teacher networking, information sharing and learning processes: Kamlesh Zapadiya 2. “MY FAVORITE SCHOOL” -Multi grade and multilevel learning system through short stories without use of compound consonants: Bhavesh Pandya 3. State Innovation and Research Foundation-(SIRF) ,Solapur, Maharashtra: Sidharam Mashale 4.”Vidyadham @ Boru”-individualised and peer learning with the help of information and technology (smart class).-2011: Mehul Suthar 5. Innovative Teacher: Anand Thakar 6. “SAGAR SHALA”- A school for migrant Children and children of shifting fisherman community: Dharmendra Kumar 7. Quality in school education: real fuel for India’s growth engine: Mohammad Mushir Khan 8. Are students being effectively transformed?: Rishabh Garg 9. Use of currency coins as learning resources to create interest about history among secondary school students: Rajesh Patil 10. Mother Tongue based Active Language Learning (M-TALL) is critical to Children’s Quality Education: Binay Pattanayak 11. 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 12. Use of Dramatization in teaching at Primary School Level for Gujarati subject: Ashish Thaker and Yupal Shukla |
| Networks for innovators(NIN) Chair: Franz W. Gatzweiler Executive Director, ICSU-UNU-IAMP, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Co-Chair: |
1. Innovation Networks: Social Capital and Successful Network Performance: Avantika Singh and Rohit Mathur |
| Technological Innovations (TIN) Chair: Zhang Liyan Faculty, TUFE, China Co-Chair: Time: 11:30-13:00 |
1. Policy Support for Innovation at Grassroots in Developing Countries: Perspectives from Nigeria: Chux Daniels 2. Innovations for and at grassroots in Russia, Olga Ustyuzhantseva 3. Organizing Volunteers and Grassroot Innovators- Experiences from Development of Wikispeed: Shantam Shukla 4. Supporting Grassroots Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India: Reflection on Two Case Studies from Gujarat: Saumyaranjan Sahoo and Astad Pastakia 5. A Study on Evaluating Factors of Technology Innovation in Rural Indian Context: Exploratory Factor Analysis: Sonal Singh and Bhaskar Bhowmick 6. Smart Micro-grid: A Unique way to enlighten India and Eco Empathic Engineering for Grassroots: Lipi Chhaya 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 |
| Day 4: Jan 22, 2015 | |
| Science and Technology Connecting Higher Education with Grassroots (S&T) Chair: Vasant Gandhi Faculty, IIM-Ahmedabad Co-Chair: Vijay Paul Sharma Time: 09:00-11:00 |
1. Rooting Frugality in Science and Engineering: Dr. Balkrishna C. Rao 2. Farmer Participatory Research Approach in Farm Mechanization: M.D. Vora 3. Accelerating Technology Innovations in Institutions of Higher Learning: P B Sharma and Ashok Kumar Raghav 4. Factors Explaining Students’ Inclination towards Entrepreneurship: Empirical Study of Ethiopian University Students: Buzeye Zegeye 5. Learning from grassroots innovation: Case studies for a socially engaged engineering education : Geetanjali Date and Sanjay Chandrasekharan 6. Linking Grassroots Innovation with Technology and Applying Sustainable Environmental Technology to Industrialising Grassroots Innovation: Q.C. Kanhukamwe and A Phiri 7. Mason Guide tools for masonry construction in mitigating effects of Earthquakes: Rajnish Srivastava and Hemant Kumar Vinayak 8. Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Research and Innovation in India: Key Issues: Sheeraz Ahmad Tantray |
| Farm and Non-Farm Innovations: Generation and Diffusion (FNF) Chair: Gajendra singh Former President, Indian Society of Agriculture Engineers (ISAE) Uday B. Desai Director, IIT Hyderabad Co-Chair: P L Gautam Former Chairperson, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Right Authority (PPVFRA) Pitam Chandra Time: 09:00-11:00 Venue: Wing-11, Committee Room |
1. An idea for the development of agricultural sector in Assam- a group effort by the students of centre for studies in rural development (csrd), Dibrugarh university : Surajit Saikia 2. Social and Economic Impacts Assessment of Mushroom Production in Uganda: Xiaoping Wei et al. 3. Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in Sahel (PROFEIS)Case of Mali: AssetouKanoute et al. 4. Holistic land and livestock management: James Chawarika 5. An Approach for Optimization of Agricultural Parameters and Resources using Wireless Automation: Pari S. Acharya and Jignesh G. Bhatt 6. Past for the Present: Traditional knowledge and farmer innovations in the Central and Eastern Himalayas: Ajay Rastogi and Prakriti 7. Prevalence of food insecurity among the small holders in rural Bangladesh, an empirical study: TanvirShatil and Md. Shakil Ahmed |
| Open and Democratic access to knowledge for grassroots communities (OPDC) Chair: George Oxley Manager, SOS SOiL Co-Chair: Time: 11:30-13:00, 14:00-15:30 |
1. An Electronic Platform For Facilitating Financial Trading Of Non-Exclusive License Of Technology: Akhilesh Gupta and Kamal Rabha 2. National Digital Literacy Mission: Harnessing Collective Energies for a Digitally Literate India: Shrikant Sinha and Pratiksha Khanduri 3. Utility of User Networks for Development Communication: An ICT Social Network driven approach for Diffusion of Innovation: Rahul Mane 4. Conceptualising Grassroots Innovation Systems in India: Hemant Kumar 5. Grassroots Innovation: The Malaysian Story–YIM paves the pathway by Innovation Walk: Othman Omar 6. Learning and creativity based use of Informal knowledge in the Horticulture sector of Jammu and Kashmir: Sheeraz Ahmad Alaie 7. Creativity and Innovations of Traditional People in Indonesia: Herwasono Soedjito 8. Innovative strategies for using social media, e-commerce and other platforms to link grassroots to Global markets: Ruma Agwekar 9. Open and Democratic Access to Knowledge for Grassroots Communities: Arul George Scaria 10. Dealing with Citizens Grievances in a Smart City: Dipti Gupta |
| Cultural Diversity and Innovation (CUL) Chair: Sudha Gopala krishnan Executive Director, Sahapedia Co-Chair: Discussant: |
1. ‘Pabuji Ki Phad’ a lost art or a social need: Dinesh Yadav 2. Making Indian Culture and Its Cultural Diversity Innovative: Nazir Parwez 3. The main goal of this project is to acquire and capture the knowledge which has been locked up in the minds of a few remaining elderly persons. These symbols serves as a means to connect indigenous wisdom, way of life, communication medium, cultural heritage that has been preserved across time: Tariq Zaman 4. Preserving Traditional Art through Social Business: A case of Mithilasmita – Madhubani paintings: Ankur Joshi and S. K Tapasvi 5. Folk Route: Changing Preferences in Urban Spaces: Utpala Desai 6. Intangible heritage transformations- Patachitra of Bengal exploring modern New Media: Lopamudra MaitraBajpai 7. Intervention framework for transforming survival appropriations of music-skilled rural artistic and innovative persons with disability into sustainable livelihoods: Govind Dhaske and Prashant Sude 8. Sowing the Seeds Right: The struggle for cultural preservation vs. “cultural losses” in a globalized world: an innovation framework: Ajanta Sen and Ravi Poovaiah 9. Up scaling Local Creative Artisan ARCH Cluster: Case of Metalware Cluster in South India: V. P. Sriraman et al 10. Max Weber’s Bureaucracy and Buddhist Monastic Organisation as Possible Templates for Management: Susantha Goonatilake 11. Creativity & innovation of the traditional Craftsmen of Kashmir Handmade Pashmina- perspective from the grassroots level: Asma Bashir |
| Coping creatively with Climate Change (CC) Chair: Gurdeep Singh Vice Chancellor, VinobaBhave University Co-Chair: Time: 14:00-15:30 |
1. CADS’ Experience in promoting agro-biodiversity in the face of climate change in Zimbabwe :Lillian Machivenyika et al. 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 3. Nexus of climate change and food insecurity towards effective mitigation measures using underutilized crops: OluwafemiAladejebi et al. 4. Perceived Climatic Variability and Agricultural Adaptations by Material Resource Poor Farmers: Mainstreaming Informal Knowledge with Formal Knowledge Systems: Ranjay K Singh et al. 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 and MD Omprakash |