Social Development


10 Millions of Steps
by Tarini   
Thursday, 19 August 2010
SmallSteps to a big change (Photographer: Tarini Chawla)SmallSteps is an initiative funded by Upasana design studio, against the use of plastic bags. The core philosophy at Upasana is to design for social development. Through small steps Upasana has given employment opportunity to more than 200 woman from villages in and around Auroville. These woman help in making cloth bags which are a good substitute to plastic. The USP of these bags are that they are compact and portable. By hooking them on to bags, belts, key rings, etc one is constantly reminded to say no to plastic. Read more

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States of Consciousness
by Andrea   
Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Logo (Photographer: Telos)Telos model is based on the integral yoga and it has been specially developed for the practical applications of yogic knowledge in the context of evolving life of individuals and organisations. It is a conceptual tool to map and develop different states of evolving consciousness in individuals, organisations, products, services or in any field of work. A form of action can be animated by different states of consciousness, however depending on the quality of the state of consciousness animating it the action and its results undergoes radical change. Therefore to improve an action and its results the underlying states of consciousness has to be developed and refined. Read more


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Population Developments
by Andrea   
Thursday, 21 January 2010

How the population of Auroville will grow?Tuesday 19th January at 3.00 pm in the Town Hall there was a presentation about trends and developments of population growth in Auroville. The presentation was conducted by Martin as a follow-up of the socio-economic survey conducted for L'avenir in collaboration with Harini and Vikram. Not a lot of Aurovilians attended to this presentation who make the point of the past growth and the trends for the next years and decades. Here is the recording of the event..For the second click READ MORERead more

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Resources & education
by Radio Team   
Monday, 16 November 2009
On 19 September Vikram, Martin and  Harini presented the results of a socio-economic survey conducted over the last year. The focus on this survey was mainly on youth of Auroville and on commercial activities. Part of the research also centered on the expectations of young Aurovilians residing in the city and the capital need to implement projects in order to create new job opportunities. The important role of education and to achieve higher standards was one of the results of this research. In the second part, an interaction between the researchers and the audience made this presentation rich in answers as well as in unanswered questions.Can a survey made on 12% of the commercial units give a precise figure of  Auroville's actual economy? That may or may not be the case, but the value remains as an important research completed. for the part one, .

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Socio economic development
by Steffi   
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Vikram presenting results'What are the human resources for industrial growth?' This was the question in a presentation made last September on the socio-economic development in Auroville by the socio-economic section of l'Avenir. Therefore a survey was conducted over the last few months and Harini, Martin and Vikram, who are part of a team, duly presented it. The main theme concentrated on the commercial units and on the youth, both inside and outside of Auroville, as human resources. Here you can listen to the main results. If you would like to listen to the whole presentation please contact AurovilleRadio.

. The full presentation will be published in the next weeks.

 

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Do you feel safe in Auroville?
by Chloe & Kati   
Monday, 20 July 2009

Auroville RoadA core question for females, also for the members of the Women Safety Task Force, which was recently founded under the umbrella of the Auroville Health Services. The group will address all the issues around sexual assaults against women, create awareness, inform about prevention and offer support after an incident. A website and a helpline will be launched soon. Isn't too much open information scaring for other women – to this question, AurovilleRadio gets many answers of what makes the difference for all of us to feel safe in Auroville.

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AVI Skype Exchange
by Radio Team   
Monday, 11 May 2009

Shraddavana, Deepti and MargaritaAs part of the AVI Netherlands yearly meeting, the AurovilleTV team arranged a live Skype video interaction. Wednesday, the 6th of May, Deepti, Shraddavana and Margarita all longtime Aurovillians, met the AVI Netherlands group online. This is a second step for future worldwide live interaction which will be broadcast live on the AurovilleTV websit play to listen.

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Pour les Aurovilliens du Cœur
by Chloe   
Saturday, 28 March 2009

Rencontre Cafe du GlobeFaut-il résider à Auroville pour se sentir Aurovillien dans son cœur? Comment peut-on se connecter à Auroville tout en étant dans son pays? Ces questions, vous êtes nombreux à vous les poser. Certaines personnes ressentent le besoin d'aider Auroville, elles ont le sentiment profond que l'esprit d'Auroville est le même que celui qui guide leur vie. Ces gens forment un réseau très diversifié réparti dans les quatre coins du monde, ils cherchent à se connecter pour partager, s'informer, créer ensemble. Alors un petit groupe de personnes composé d'Aurovilliens et de ces mystérieux "Auroviliens du Cœur", ont pris l'habitude de se retrouver lors de rencontres appelées "Café de globe".  AurovilleRadio en a enregistré quelques-unes et vous propose d'écouter des extraits sur la création du statut de "Citoyen Universel". Si vous aussi vous vous sentez un citoyen universel et faisant partie de ce réseau d'Aurovilliens du Cœur contactez-les ici.

Pour télécharger le programme cliquez .

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