Educational Innovations Bank

The Educational Innovations Bank (EI Bank), implemented by the Ravi J Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (RJMCEI-IIMA) is a clearing house for effective educational innovations developed and implemented by elementary school teachers working in the public system. Teachers in the public system continue to play an important role in ensuring education for the marginalized sections of our society. In spite of the increase in the share of private sector enrolment, the precariously-placed socio-economic strata will continue to depend on this system in the foreseeable future. However, the quality and other educational outcomes of the public system have often been criticized for their less than desirable levels. This project assumes that top-down reform is necessary but not sufficient: learning from those who have performed in spite of constraints that are common to many teachers, valorising and supplementing their work and converting this work into a resource, will expose teachers to a solution-augmenting approach to local educational reform, and motivate them.

The EI Bank is designed to act as a hub for a decentralized peer-driven professional development network and as a tool for developing a culture of innovation in the public system. It is a grassroots innovations resource for teachers, administrators and policy makers which can complement top-down reform initiatives. Though, the project was being implemented on a small scale for some time, an award from HP Sustainability & Social Innovation and the Education Innovation Fund for India 2012, and the India Council for Integral Education and Sri Aurobindo Society, helped scale up the project over the years.

SRISTI & Honey Bee Network, Ahmedabad

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), which means creation in Sanskrit, was born in 1993 as a result of the felt need for an institutional support to the activities of the Honey Bee Network. Based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, SRISTI is a registered charitable organization under Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. The organization is also registered under Sec. 80 of Income Tax Act, 1961 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976.

GIAN

GIAN is India's first technology business incubator focused on incubating and commercialising grassroots innovations. Grassroots innovations are essentially solutions generated by people at the grassroots levels to tide over persistent problems, the solutions to which are either not available or not affordable by a large section of the consumer masses in developing countries like India. These innovations, therefore, capture an unmet need of a large section of the population and building a value chain around these innovations to take them to market holds the potential of wealth creation in a truly sustainable and equitable manner.

GIAN also works for Innovations for grassroots. These innovations differ from grassroots innovations as they may be devised by professionals or formal sector but are applicable, accessible and available to the grassroots community in an affordable price. GIAN helps to build the value chain around these innovations, making these available to the masses through the market mechanism or otherwise.

State Innovation Research Foundation, Solapur, Maharashtra

The State Innovation & Research Foundation, Solapur (SIRF) is a voluntary network of 400 government primary school teachers established in 2006 as a platform for innovative teachers. Today strength of network is more than 3000 teachers.

CEDRA

CENTRE FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH AND ACTION, known as CEDRA has completed nearly 2 decades in the field of development having exposure to Programs and Partnerships Management with the Corporates, Governments and International Donor and Program Implementation agencies. Experience of CEDRA ranges from Project and Program designing to Implementation and Management, which includes Baseline Data collection and analysis, Concurrent Monitoring and Evaluation, Periodic progress Reporting, Presentations, Legal and other compliances, Donor Relations, Government Liasioning and Networking , capacity Buildings of Stakeholders, Management of HR, Finance and other resources. For more information; kindly visit website: www.cedra.in

CRAnTI Technologies

Cranti technologies is fastest growing company and basically work in open source technology. we are small company but working on various project, we are mainly in developing MIS & ERP customise solution to our customer.

Four Clowns

Four clowns is a 360 degree communications company that offers a wide range of creative and communication services suitable for grassroots communication to global-digital platforms.

So far, four clowns has endeavoured in advertising, graphic Designs, Film productions, Entertainment productions, Activations, Digital Media and much more tailor made solutions for its clients!

Four clowns is a Films production House, Graphic Design Studio, Activation Company, Development Communication Consultant and much more!