Every Tuesday We bring you one of the Inspiring and innovative videos as a video of the week to inspire upcoming Engineering aspirants. This week it would be “Discovery Channel’s My Technology”.
Awesome and really glamorous video, on how people are solving their problems on their own with creativity, and in the process generating ‘my technology’. 
These innovations are from National Innovation foundation (NIF http://www.nif.org.in/). Also it will be relevant to mention here that SRISTI(www.sristi.org) is 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. And both SRISTI and NIF are collaborators of the famous Honey Bee Network (http://www.sristi.org/honeybee.html). Honey Bee Network is a network of like-minded individuals, innovators, farmers, scholars, academicians, policy makers, entrepreneurs and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).The Network has been woven around three basic ideals.
The Network believes that a knowledge system in order to become sustainable has to be both just and fair. Hence, while collecting knowledge from the knowledge holder, the Network has made it a norm to acknowledge the knowledge provider with name and reference, if otherwise not desired by the knowledge provider. This particular practice has come handy in protecting the IPR of the knowledge provider.
In the second place, the source of knowledge i.e. in the case of Honey Bee Network, the traditional knowledge holders and grassroots innovators must be acknowledged, if otherwise desired so by the knowledge holders themselves.
Finally, any proceed that accrues from the value addition of local traditional knowledge and innovation; a fair and reasonable share must go back to the knowledge holders.
