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In short
Honeybee Network is at the crossroads of like-minded individuals, innovators, farmers, scholars, academicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and non-governmental organizations. The network has built up a now vast repository of often clever rural inventions and village wisdom about plants and animals in danger of being forgotten in the new brand name-driven India. The structure has been created by Anil Gupta, a professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmadabad.
Its principles
The Network has been woven around three basic ideals.
- It believes that a knowledge system has to be both just and fair in order to become sustainable, so it gives credits for innovation holders.
- The traditional knowledge holders and grassroots innovators must be acknowledged.
- Innovators should be rewarded at a fair and reasonable price for including their knowledge.
Since its start sixteen years ago, its database has included over 51,000 documented innovations, traditional practices and collected outstanding examples of contemporary knowledge. The "Honey Bee Database of Grassroots Innovations" is now converted as a multimedia database.
Founding members
Several institutions took part in the initiative. All of them are India based, such as the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), the National Innovation Foundation (NIF), the Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN), the SEVA, Madurai, the Pritvi, the PEDES (Kerela), the Innovation Club, Orissa and the Network of Gram (Vidyapeethas).