GIAN West (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network - West)

Building upon the Honey Bee network philosophy the National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) started functioning in March 2000 as India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators. NIF is committed to look for grassroots innovators who have developed technological innovations in any field of human survival without any outside help.