Who changes the world?
No matter who you are, everyone has the equal right to freedom of imagination and the chance to change the world. "Design For Freedom" acts to prove this along with grassroots innovators. Most innovators are born into families with few resources and receive little formal education. However, their innovations enhance their family's standards of living and create positive repercussions for society. Truly, this is proof that "anyone can change the world."
People's innovations such as steam locomotives, motor cars, TV, and ipod, changed our lives especially since the industrial revolution.
We discover inconceivable future when fantasists brought things to us.
Naturally, most of such leading-edge innovation yields in countries of developed economy. (It is natural to think like that, and we also believe this is do true.)
However, many innovation took shape in developed countries cost a lot.
Therefore, too intense price competition will lead firms to hire people from developing countries with low wage.
Also they use limited natural resources randomly to excess for increase of their productivity. (not sure what this line tries to convey, need reviewing )
For those consequences, people in developing countries cannot get the benefit of innovations
and always threatened by those innovations as they provide enjoyment to people in developed countries mostly.
E.F.Schumacher, the author of “Small is Beautiful” warns this exaggerate irrational industrialization, and advocates alternative innovation.
"We should not demand technological innovation can turn back destructive actions to people's live.
So what should we demand to scientists and engineers? My answer is this. Means and tools of science and technology should be 1.cheap so that everyone can obtain 2.can be used in a small scale 3.things which people can display their imagination. " (p44, Scumacher 'Small is Beautiful')
I think there are several pivots to achieve innovation in the developing countries. Environmental friendly, maintain freedom of work of employees, people equally obtain benefit from economic activities, and construct sustainable systems to resolve problems and social needs. They are already proven as essences of innovation in developing countries.
Innovation created from Grassroots will change the world. Sooner of or later, the day will come. Most of the people just wait, expecting such future will come by itself, but it will never come to us unless someone take action towards.
If we can prove that people in "poverty" have imagination and energy to change the world, those people will become more active enough to believe that "I can change the world".
And this validation will link to corroborate economic models and distributed -type of manufacturing originated in grassroots. Moreover, this will awaken the world enough to cognizance cognize developing countries as a new significance.
Thus, we leave our future to this project.
In Sri Lanka,
April. 2012. Takuto Motomura
Twenty-two years ago, Anil Gupta founded the Honeybee Network, creating a movement of grassroots innovation. Since then, the organization has taken innovative products produced by bottom of the pyramid/the grassroots level s to the world at large to be used to improve the living standards of all. These innovations are introduced to the world via their publication into in six different languages. The Honeybee Network contributes to the documentation, value-addition and intellectual property protection of these technological innovations.
Imagination and creation are core aspects of what it means to be human. The future we imagine and seek to develop in the present has infinite potential to change the world. So fundamental to the nature of humanity, Grassroots Innovation is distributed all throughout the world, and finally the nations of the world from Brazil to Nepal, Vietnam to Kenya have began to take notice and support this movement.
During his travels throughout India for the past twenty plus years Anil Gupta has been not only a thinker and educator, but also a pioneer in discovering grassroots level innovation. These small steps have sent ripples throughout China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Philippines and countries within Africa, as has his leadership in establishing foundations and working with national institutions. His work is supporting grassroots innovations, and has collected an astonishing 600,000+ different ideas so far.
Design for Freedom aims to:
1) Scout, design, and promote Grass Roots Innovations (GRI)
2) Develop and spread awareness about GRI throughout the world
3) Speed up the rate of change through publications and GRI events
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An innovation created out of love for his father
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A clay refrigerator that uses zero electricity
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An inventor deciding his life to innovation
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An innovation that took advantage of a handicap
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The background of the practical application of regenerated energy
Art Director
Eisuke Tachikawa(NOSIGNER)
Photographer/Writer
NUMA
Movie Director
Daisuke Namiki(tetol creative)
WEB Designer
Atsushi Hyogo(TONARI Co.Ltd.)
WEB Engineer
Kazuhisa Tsuchiya(TONARI Co.Ltd.)
Daichi Katayama(Granma Inc.)
Graphic Designer
Toshiyuki Nakaie(NOSIGNER)