Abhinav Dey

Abhinav is an innovator who works on participatory digitization for ecological, agricultural, one health decision making. 

His work has been awarded by the D-Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an institution focusing on co-creation of grassroots innovations for international development. 

He has developed sustainable energy and built environment alternatives for sectors like agriculture, education. With makerspaces he nurtures talents across the globe to co-create biomaterial+natural tech labs, decolonising material choice. 

His interests include building design sandboxes, ethnography, wildlife conversation, indigenous foods and novel human computer interfaces, handicrafts, regenerative fisheries and serial founder of community maker/hackerpaces.  

He has worked with IUCN.org, SELCOFoundation.org, GIZ.de, Bayer Crop science (climate.com) , Microsoft Research-Enable India, Vellore Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, Projectdefy.org.