What is Honeybee ?

Honey Bee signifies a philosophy of discourse which is authentic, accountable and fair. A honeybee does two things which many of us don't. It collects pollen without impoverishing the flowers, and connects flower to flower through pollination. The idea is that when we collect the people's knowledge, we should ensure that they don't become the poorer for having shared their insights with us. Further, we should connect one innovator with another through feedback, communication and networking in their local language. We have to let the providers of knowledge know what we did with their knowledge. If we generate consultancies or other sources of income by writing on people's knowledge, a fair share of this income must accrue to the providers in as transparent a manner as possible.

Honey Bee: An experiment in people to people learning:

We write in the English language, which connects us globally but alienates locally. We are unable to reach the people from whom we have learnt. Thus, while we grow in our careers, achieve wider recognition and reap professional rewards, the people suffer, often silently. The ethics of knowledge extraction, documentation, dissemination and abstraction into theories, institutions or technologies, is thus our central concern. 

Why you should join the Honey Bee network:

• If you feel totally dissatisfied with the current mode of dominant mediocrity all around us
• If you feel that lots of poor people are so poor not because they can not think, but because their ideas and initiatives do not get space for expansion and fulfillment
• If you think that there are many dreams that you had which you could not fulfill in your life but would like others to fulfill them sooner rather than later
• If you want to invest in green ideas which involve risk but may help society as well as our lives if successful
• If you want to contribute some of your time ( ranging from one day in a month or a year to one hour a day to may be few weeks a year or more) in service of grassroots innovators by contributing towards a skill and resource bank. This bank will be accessible to knowledge rich but economically poor or disadvantaged farmers, artisans, pastoralists, or urban slum dwellers having ideas or prototype of new product or service or any other inventors.
• If you yourself have some innovative green idea and do not know who to contact for making it grow, generate wealth and make this world greener, fairer and more humane
• If you are a scientist or technologist and can pursue research yourself or guide your students to add value in local knowledge and innovations
• If you are an entrepreneur who wants to scale up some other innovator's innovation
• If you are a policy maker who no more enjoys stifling initiative of others and instead enjoys helping others grow
• If you are a teacher who can persuade your students to take pride in augmenting grassroots innovations and help liberate the colonized minds of the elite

          then just join the Honey Bee network....Click here to join

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