SRISTI — the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions — is a developmental voluntary organisation working closely with the Honey Bee Network to document, support, and scale innovation from grassroots communities. Sristi Innovations is our technology arm, building the internal systems that keep this work running.
Founded
Countries in the network
Innovations documented
To strengthen the creativity of grassroots communities and individual innovators — supporting environmentally sustainable solutions, biodiversity conservation, resource management, cultural diversity, and educational innovation.
A world where local knowledge and grassroots innovation are documented fairly, shared justly, and benefit the communities that create them — supported by technology that makes this work easier, not harder.
Supporting innovations by teachers, students, and educational stakeholders.
Strengthening community-level institutions in resource management.
Making knowledge accessible to economically disadvantaged communities.
Championing creativity through arts, literature, and craft traditions.
SRISTI is established as a developmental voluntary organisation, working closely with the Honey Bee Network to document and support grassroots innovators.
Through the Honey Bee Network, spanning 75+ countries, over 100,000 grassroots ideas and traditional practices have been documented — with the Honey Bee Newsletter published in English and seven Indian regional languages.
Sristi Innovations, our technology arm, builds and maintains the internal platforms that support this work — unified under sristi.digital and its family of subdomains.
SRISTI and the Honey Bee Network operate on a shared set of values, central to how we work with grassroots communities and innovators.
