avant garde innovation

Promoting and making such innovative projects accessible to the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population, NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum (NSIF), a ‘Tech for Good’ platform, is bridging the gap and fostering inclusive growth.

A forward-thinking Jagdish Prajapat of Bangreda Mamadev Gram Panchayat under Nimbahera block has proven that strawberry cultivation can be a booming business in this northwestern side of India.

Kavya Kopparapu, with a team that includes her 15-year-old brother, Neeyanth, and classmate Justin Zhang, has developed a smartphone app called Eyeagnosis.

Using available waste materials on the campus like waste palm wheels, coconut leaves, a stick, and wheels of small cycles, these students made a makeshift sweeping machine to help the aged sweeper.

The Waste Samaritan initiative is a door-to-door waste monitoring solution undertaken as a pilot project in Domlur Layout’s ward number 112, with the support of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.

An estimated 1.3 million tons of them are produced in a year worldwide which take years to decompose.

This is the first year when participation has been opened to other countries. India participated for the first time and Team Neutrino represented it in Washington, where the final round was held.

iBeeHive is a device that allows the beekeeper to remotely monitor the health of bees and kill pests that infest the hive.

Kana M Suresan and Annamalai Prathap, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,combined absorption and gelation processes, and tightly bound the oil to a porous matrix.

The students claim that the model could potentially help ease an energy crisis, because the freely available wind energy is renewable.