[886] in peace2
Discussion with documenter of indigenous knowledge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Mon Jul 23 14:03:25 2001
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
Reply-To: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
To: Samudra Vijay <samudra@MIT.EDU>, save@MIT.EDU, peace-list@MIT.EDU,
dyd-org@media.mit.edu, jwest@MIT.EDU
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WHAT: INFORMAL DISCUSSION WITH PROFESSOR ANIL GUPTA OF SRISTI AND Indian
Institute of Management-India
Meet Professor Anil Gupta, founder of SRISTI, an organization in India
that documents indigenous knowlege of grassroots communities. Professor
Gupta also works on protection of intellectual property rights for
grassroots inventions and inventors, ethical issues in conservation
and prospecting of biodiversity, and setting up inventors assistance
funds. (Full bio below)
WHEN: TUESDAY, 24. AUGUST
TIME: 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: IDA GREEN LOUNGE (RM. 915) - GREEN BLDG. , 9th Floor
Cookies/Juice will be served
Full Bio:
Professor ANil Gupta is a professor at the Indian Institute of
Management-Ahmedabad. His areas of research include protection of
intellectual property rights for grassroots inventions and inventors,
ethical issues in conservation and prospecting of biodiversity, and
setting up assistance funds for inventors.
In addition to his research, he is the founder of SRISTI, a
non-governmental organisation setup to strengthen the creativity of
grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving
biodiversity and developing eco-friendly solutions to local problems.
SRISTI publishes a magazine, Honeybee that is dedicated to documenting
indigenous knowlege and giving scientific explanations for the knowledge.
The newsletter is now published in many languages. (see www.sristi.org)
He has also helped establish the National Innovation Foundation in India,
and was a Pew scholar.
