• Dr Hridaya Narayan Chaudhary
• Dr.Mohd Naseem Siddiqui

India is known for its frugal innovations and ground-up development models. Through their work, the partners of FES have been pioneering social innovations in their respective fields of interventions.Finding creative and effective solutions for common social, political, and economic problems is a challenging task. Innovations for societal issues or social innovations are the ideas that create exemplary changes in a society and add value to existing solutions.Usually, social innovations are seen to be more effective than policy intervention as they are participatory and created from the bottom up, ensuring preservation of grassroots wisdom and knowledge.However, most grassroots social innovations remain local success stories. Their potential to get scaled up for facilitating societal transformation is mostly underutilized. Through their work, the partners of FES India have been pioneering social innovations in their respective fields of interventions.FES India organized its first flagship conference on India Innovating in August 2018 in Mumbai. At the conference, FES India wanted to celebrate successful ideas of social transformations innovated by its partners over the years.

KEYWORDS: I-Innovation, G-Grassroot, T-Transformative, P-Pioneering, C-Celebrate

"POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF CIVIL SOCIETY WITH SOCIAL MEDIA IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.1785-1791, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902E52.pdf

"POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF CIVIL SOCIETY WITH SOCIAL MEDIA IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp1785-1791, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902E52.pdf