The effort to enable online communication within the knowledge network for grassroots innovators is from the experiences of Honey Bee Network with the grassroots innovators community. Over the last 12 years of the network, one of the major impediments to the growth of grassroots innovations developed by farmers, artisans etc., has been found to be the lack of an appreciative but critical peer group. This happens through several socio-cultural processes across languages and geographical locations. We believe.....

Cross-cultural fertilization of ideas and initiatives is one of the fundamental tenets of the Honey Bee Network. It was hoped that collaborative learning among innovators will be accompanied by competitive spirit to produce new innovations. 

Honey Bee Network believes that a knowledge network to connect grassroots innovators conserving resources through local experimentation may help generate (a) peer group; (b) market for ideas which may network innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs; and (c) incentives for conservation through value addition and building bridges between formal and informal science. Real time connectivity, through databases and multimedia technology across language and cultural boundaries, may increase societal capacity to spur, spawn, stimulate, and sustain grassroots innovations. A registry of Inventions and innovations around the world may also help secure Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection for small innovators who cannot afford costly IPR system as it exists at present.

The development of multimedia/multilingual Honey Bee database have been done over the years through various research projects. SRISTI & Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad are working for enabling online communication amongst grassroots innovators.

Various research projects helping in development of Honey Bee Database click here

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