Mobilizing grassroots’ technological innovations and traditional knowledge, values and institutions: articulating social and ethical capital
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The Honey Bee Network has helped provide a sort of loose platform to converge creative, but uncoordinated individuals across not only Indian states having varying cultural, linguistic and social ethos, but also in 75 other countries around the world. What the Network is trying to do in a rather quiet manner may transform the way the resources—in which poor people are rich—are used in the future. These resources are their knowledge, innovations and sus-
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تاریخ انتشار 2003