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How Do We Build an Innovation Society?
The concluding plenary discussion at the Design Public Conclave will evaluate the ideas that emerge from the first day’s workshops around the four challenge tracks, as well as the discussions of the previous panels of the day. It will look … Continue reading
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Tagged Anant Shah, design public, innovation, Manju George, panel 5, Virginia Sharma
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Taking Forward Innovation in the Challenge Tracks
The fourth panel at the Design Public Conclave will focus on how to take forward innovation in the four challenge tracks that were discussed on the first day of the Conclave. Discussion leaders from the previous day, along with sector-specific … Continue reading
Equitable Water and Sanitation: the Challenge for Design Public
As India’s population grows and expands, clean water supply will become inadequate: demand is expected to rise by over 40 percent in the coming two decades. Large parts of the country already suffer acute shortages in clean drinking water as … Continue reading
Innovation that Harnesses Sea Waves for Energy
Confronted with a grim power situation due to its massive demand and unsustainable sources, various alternatives like wind, solar or tidal energy have often been proposed. An Indian innovator has gone a step further and has come up with a … Continue reading
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Tagged design public, gravity power house, hydro power, innovation, Post-grid power
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E-toilets to Curb Open Defecation?
Millions of people, in our fast-modernizing country, still defecate in open, leading to a significant challenge facing our country today. As the Government intensifies its Total Sanitation Campaign, launched in 1999, innovative ideas are pouring in, like ‘No toilet, No … Continue reading
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Tagged design public, e-toilets, innovation, open defecation, water and sanitation
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An Innovation that Changed People’s Life
An innovative idea changed many lives in the country of Bangladesh where people did not have access to electricity or telephone, and the nearest health-care facility was hours away. Education in such a situation remained a dream. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangladesh, design public, education, health care, innovation, solar power, water and sanitation
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Building an Innovation Society
Today we see tremendous interest in innovation in India and some hope for what it might be able to do for the grand challenges facing this society as a whole. But there is also a great deal of uncertainty about … Continue reading
Local Innovation to Solve Electricity Problems
Siddappa, a farmer from Somapur village in Gadag district of Karnataka, designed a water mill to generate electricity. Believing that electricity problems can be solved by being creative and innovative, Siddappa took up the challenge to show the villagers that … Continue reading
An Inclusive Approach for Societal Development
Public-Private-Partnerships are emerging across a host of sectors in India. A recent conference in Tamil Nadu on “Emerging role of PPPP’s” conducted by The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), highlights the need for a more inclusive approach and the crucial … Continue reading
Farmers Use Waste-Water to Grow Vegetables
Near a small town of Vijayapura in Karnataka, farmers came up with a brilliant innovation to start using the town’s waste-water to grow fodder and vegetables in order to fight extreme water shortage in the area. When fields started to … Continue reading
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Tagged design public, drought, karnataka, small farmers, waste-water
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