Organization:SRISTI

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Overview

SRISTI is a developmental voluntary organization aiming to  strengthen the creativity of/at/for grassroots communities ,including individual innovators. It supports eco-friendly solutions to local problems being scouted, spawned and spread by the Honey Bee Network for over 26 years. It also nurtures ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity, common property resources, cultural diversity and educational innovators.

Purpose

Inclusive growth through a distributed, collaborative, co-operative and compassionate knowledge system.

• Systematic documentation, dissemination of, and value addition in grassroots green innovations
• Providing them intellectual property rights protection and risk capital support
• Help in in situ and ex situ conservation of local biodiversity and associated knowledge system.
• Empower the knowledge rich but economically poor people by adding value to their innovations,traditional knowledge and associated biological diversity including microbial diversity.
• Linkformal and informal science to enrich both the knowledge systems
• To provide early stage venture support to grassroots innovators, students and other mavericks to scale up products and services based on grassroots and youthful innovations through commercial or non-commercial channels.
• To embed the insights learnt from grassroots innovations in the formal educational, policy and institutional systems in order to expand the conceptual and cognitive space available to these innovations.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

Technological and institutional innovations developed by individuals and communities under SRISTI has provided a new way of thinking about conservation of diversity, generation of sustainable alternatives for natural and other resource management through self supporting viable economic and non-economic self reliant livelihood strategies.

SRISTI has been advocating for protecting knowledge right of creative communities and individuals. There have been several consultative sessions with the private sector, scientists, activists and development workers for discussing various issues related to the access to bio-diversity and associated knowledge rights.

 

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Technological and institutional innovations developed by individuals and communities under SRISTI has provided a new way of thinking about conservation of diversity, generation of sustainable alternatives for natural and other resource management through self supporting viable economic and non-economic self reliant livelihood strategies.

SRISTI has been advocating for protecting knowledge right of creative communities and individuals. There have been several consultative sessions with the private sector, scientists, activists and development workers for discussing various issues related to the access to bio-diversity and associated knowledge rights.