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Honey Bee Network

Honey Bee Network. Honey Bee Network. Honey Bee Network A global initiative to give voice to creative and innovative people at grassroots. By Prof. Anil K Gupta. Presented at

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Honey Bee Network

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  1. Honey Bee Network Honey Bee Network Honey Bee Network A global initiative to give voice to creative and innovative people at grassroots By Prof. Anil K Gupta Presented at ICT Development Forum & 6th German World Bank Forum on May 20th & 21st, 2003 at the Gästehaus Petersberg in Königswinter, Germany

  2. Honey Bee Network Honey Bee Network The Network Since 1989 Honey Bee signifies a philosophy of discourse which is authentic, accountable and fair. Honey Bee believes that cross pollination of ideas by exchange of information across language and cultural boundaries, may increase societal capacity to spur, spawn, stimulate, and sustain grassroots innovations and provide resources for sustainable development.

  3. Honey Bee Network Honey Bee Network About Network continued…. Honey Bee Network brings together those creative and innovative farmers, artisans, mechanics, fishermen & women and labourers who have solved a problem through their own genius without any outside help whether from state, market, or even NGOs. Such self triggered and developed innovations whether technological or institutional are scouted, supported, sustained and scaled wherever possible with or without value addition, linkage with formal science and technology.

  4. Honey Bee Network About Network continued…. The idea is to generate incentives and benefits for the innovators. The innovations could be developed by individuals or groups. These may have been developed in recent past or long past and some times these innovations or creative practices might have become part of traditional knowledge. We thus also look for outstanding examples of traditional knowledge, which help in conserving and utilizing natural resources in a sustainable manner.

  5. Honey Bee Network About Network continued…. Honey Bee Network of volunteers, Grassroots Innovators, Traditional Knowledge Holders, Researchers, Scientists, Academicians, Policy makers, partners & collaborators extends to 77 countries across the world. Publication of the Network’s Magazines in ten languages viz. eight Indian Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Pahari, Malayalam, Bengali and Oriya and two international English, Spanish is done by network collaborators. Reaching out to people in thier local language to over come cultural & linguist barriers in sharing knowledge, is core to the network philosophy.

  6. Honey Bee Network Network Collaborators: SEVA - Tamil Nadu, India PRITVI -Karnataka, India ERA - Himachal Pradesh, India PDS - Kerala, India CCD - Tamil Nadu, India SGK - Uttaranchal, India KSS - Uttaranchal, India Collectives in West Bengal & Orissa Abeja, Cali, Valle, Colombia Honey Bee Network-UK <www.honeybee-uk.org>

  7. Survival Strategies Access to Factors & Product Markets and Kinship networks Public Policies for direct & indirect transfer & support Knowledge Systems Individual Collective Individual Collective Contemporary Innovations Traditional Knowledge Converting Innovations into Products Rewarding and Compensation Scouting and Dissemination GIAN/Sristi/NIF SRISTI/NIF SRISTI/NIF Knowledge Network Macro Policy Micro Policy IIMA/NIF IIMA/NIF Conservation of Biodiversity & Associated Knowledge Systems Sustainable Natural Resource Management Sustainable Livelihood The Network Framework

  8. Empathy Seven ‘e’

  9. Honey Bee Network Commitment to Knowledge Providers • Networking in Local Language • Honey Bee Magazines in eight languages (Eight Indian, English & Spanish) • Honey Bee Collaborators across the world • Honey Bee multimedia/multilanguage Database of grassroots Innovations & outstanding traditional knowledge • Village knowledge centres “Gyan Manthan Kendra” with Honey Bee Kiosks • Shodh Yatra’s “Journey of Exploration” from village to village in serach of creativity • Shodh Sankal, Linking innovators, developing peer group of knowledge holders

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