SRISTI

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) which means creation in Sanskrit was born in 1993 as a result of the felt need for an institutional support to the activities of the Honey Bee Network. Based in Ahmedabad Gujarat SRISTI is a registered charitable organization under Bombay Public Trust Act 1950. The organization is also registered under Sec. 80 of Income Tax Act 1961 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976. SRISTI was set up to provide organizational intellectual and logistics support to the Honey Bee Network. The primary objectives while setting up the organization were: systematically documenting disseminating and developing grassroots green innovations providing intellectual property rights protection to grassroots innovators working on the in situ and ex situ conservation of local biodiversity and providing venture support to grassroots innovators. SRISTI manages the Honey Bee database of innovations and supports the publication of the Network's newsletter in three languages English Hindi and Gujarati. Lately SRISTI has being focusing on more concerted ways of hitherto neglected domains like women's knowledge systems value addition through a natural product laboratory using ICT to establish knowledge network connecting innovators traditional knowledge holders with the centres of formal excellence entrepreneurs etc and innovations in education.