SRISTI-HONEYBEE Network of Grassroots Innovators and Inventors
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Dear colleague,
SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable
Technologies and Institutions) is a global NGO based in Ahmedabad
set up to support the Honey Bee network of Grassroots innovators
and inventors engaged in evolving sustainable alternatives for
natural resource management. It believes that poor people are not
so poor that they can not even think. It provides a voice to
economically poor but knowledge rich communities and individuals.
SRISTI has one of the largest data bases in the world on Innova-
tions developed by people without outsiders' help with their name
and addresses. Honey Bee newsletter published by a sister organi-
zation SRISTI Innovations goes to 71 countries and is adapted in
seven languages.
One of the recent initiatives of SRISTI has been to build a
database on local institutions which are initiated and governed
by the local people themselves for natural resource management at
community level. These institutions need not necessarily have
been created by any explicit/expressed rules for governance,
boundary rules, resource allocation etc. The primary aim of
setting up of such a database is to strengthen the information
network amongst the people and make it easily accessible to all
those who are interested to know, and learn from such institu-
tion as to how to manage the natural resources informally under
diverse cultural and environmental conditions.
We have till now recorded 71 examples of such institutions based
on literature review under the supervision of Prof Anil K Gupta.
We are deeply interested in recording the case studies of similar
institutions from any part of the world. SRISTI would be extreme-
ly grateful if you could exchange with us information of such
institutions which are at your disposal or which you are in a
position to acquire. We shall very much appreciate your contribu-
tion to the database and also acknowledge. Needless to say, we
would be happy to share this database with those interested.
Thanking you in advance,
Riya, Troels and Srinivas
c/o Prof Anil K Gupta
Those who would like to know more about SRISTI and its activities
may please visit our web sites at
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~anilg/sristi/sristi.htm
http://csf.colorado.edu/sristi
or write to
Prof Anil K Gupta Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) & Honey Bee
network
c/o Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 380 015, India.
fax : 91-79-6427896
Phone: 6564979( r)
407241 ( ext: 4922, 4927, 4930) office
email: anilg@iimahd.ernet.in
honeybee@iimahd.ernet.in
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