The last evolution in our cultural cyber-space shown us that something is happening and our technologies are just following our dreams and visions. From the last 30 years, an international network is on progress, internet is just the first stone of an integral structure that will show up his face. By going from personal computer (PC) to cloud computing, a new dimension of calculation is now open to everybody, everywhere. The next step in this evolution is cloud computing, a super computer shared by all, the "one" is on the way like an international library of knowledge and experience... but for what purpose? maybe to access a complete overview of our very limited mental world and to offer a way to go beyond. Read more

Twilight 10 a festival of short films brought to us 25 short, awarded films form Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication students. It started on Wednesday by Invocation of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother by Swati through vocal recitation which was followed by Aestheshorts - Panel discussion and open forum on emerging trends in short film making. Aestheshorts is comparatively a new genre in India, and it's quite different from the short features made up to now. Era of digital media will drastically change cinematic field, and the panel discussion were about cinematic evolution. At the panel on Wednesday were participating R.V. Ramani, well known filmmaker, K.Hariharan, an accomplished filmmaker and director of L.V.Prasad Film Institute in Chennai, and Sadanand Menon, widely known photographer and reputed critic. Read more

Mark Twain once said "The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a seal and a mermaid". Auroville's literary pilgrimage and tactful metabolism needs a change. We conducted a short interview with the project holder of www.bluelightav.org Software Solution, Mr. Juergen. "Change is a slow process". Despite of the challenges on the ground, each and every day these computer engineers are trying to change the cocoon of working scenario at Auroville. ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning is the first lane of this change - a future solution for Auroville? Read more

Connecting Inner Power with Global Change. An approach to organizations/systems based on fractals and Sri Aurobindo. A talk with audio-visuals in Town Hall Conference Hall, was held on Monday, 16 August. Pravir Malik is a successful business consultant in the US, and he’s also taught in the Ashram School. He presented the work he’s doing with fractals and their assisting with solving organizational and system problems. Check out his website: www.aurosoorya.com, which covers much of what he’s described in his book Connecting Inner Power with Global Change.

Kolam Computer Training Center c'est le nouveau centre d'apprentissage en informatique que Uriel vient de lancer il y a quelques semaines. La-bas il donne des cours d'informatiques à plusieurs écoles d'Auroville et aux enfants des villages tamouls environnant. Il propose aussi des classes pour sénior et un enseignement professionnalisant sur la création 3D, l'animation et le montage vidéo/audio. Il nous a reçu aujourd'hui avec Pierre dans sa classe. Read more

This is a brief summary of the open presentation and discussion arranged by L’avenir on 29th January 2010 at the Town Hall. The goals of ICITI is to build a scalable ICT platform by 2012 in Auroville for+ Better connectivity at lower cost, enabling closer  collaboration and more effective governance+ Reduce carbon foot print   - Eliminate or reduce energy used for ‘need-less’ travel   - Eliminate or reduce use of paper   - Use low power/ power efficient technologies+ Reduce Electromagnetic pollution+ Usher in ‘Knowledge Society”+ Extend it to the bio-regionThe consensus at the end of the meeting was that ICITI is technically feasible and financially viable and its realization would be beneficial. For its realization, ICITI needs Government approvals, funds and Community support in the aspiration, goodwill and a helping hand, wherever possible..In READ MORE part 2 & 3.Read more

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Sono gia' passati due mesi e mezzo da quando ho cominciato lo stage qui ad AurovilleRadio e sfortunatamente e' arrivato il giorno di rispolverare lo zaino e di cominciare a riempirlo per ritornare nella cara vecchia Italia. I vestiti coloratissimi ed una statua di Ganesh si stipano assieme alle scarpe ed ai vestiti pesanti che presto indossero' nel viaggio di ritorno. Mentre un'incenso brucia lentamente lasciando il suo delicato aroma nell'aria con una certa tristezza salgono i ricordi di questi felicissimi e costruttivi mesi. Sono davvero fiero di aver contribuito nel mio piccolo alla crescita di questa radio e volevo utilizzare questo programma per ringraziare tutto il team per la carica di energia positiva che mi hanno lasciato. A presto amici!

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On 5ht of December 2004 AurovilleRadio was “born”. In interesting interview with Andrea we overview last five years from its early beginnings to today, and what actually AurovilleRadio is to the  community, and what it is to the other world. Nevertheless the progress of community in whole is  very much related to the level of flux of information, and in Auroville especially that is of the vital point, because the people who live here are form all over the world, are indeed so different, and to live in unity in diversity information need to be shared. Happy birthday!

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As 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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Although community activity is as old as humans, these sorts of tools – now called "social software" -- have only appeared in the last decade. They represent a fundamentally new way for humans to interact, and will transform the world as much as the printing press and the telephone. In Auroville, Social Software tools have the potential to allow faster consensus decision-making with broader participation, make knowledge available without centralized editor / librarian and enable efficient bartering and sharing of goods, services, resources etc Jonathan Stray has given a talk today on this topic. He has an MSc in Computer Science, manages an arts collective in San Francisco, and researches and writes about technology and society. Click here to downlaod the PDF presentation

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Here a "paper" version of this talk.

 

Ama la musica e per professione ha sempre lavorato in questo settore finchè ha vissuto in Europa. Il suo nome, Manohar, significa "la bellezza di Krisna mentre suona il flauto". Nel 2004 viene ad Auroville per vivere il suo sogno e per condividere il sogno collettivo che spinge sull'accelleratore dell'evoluzione della città. Da due anni si occupa del sito www.auroville.org.

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An interview with Manohar, the man who's in charge of an international website dedicated to Auroville, its people and its events. Manohar, born in Italy as Luigi,  began the website four  years ago just after the tsunami. The website is called www.auroville.org, and it is as Manohar says: 'window in a glass house' because Auroville belongs to humanity, to the entire world...and for many Auroville's website is the first touch with Auroville... Read more

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During October Jean-Francois Noubel visited Auroville in order to stimulate interest in an interactive session on collective intelligence, wisdom and consciousness. In this, a new way of collaboration was offered which can put an unlimited number of people in touch  who care to work together via Internet, similar to Wikipedia. As the quality and result of human effort depends on a structure of organization whether it be as a team, as pyramidal or collaborative, the structure is of vital importance. Noubel's presentation proposed a unique way of structuring an organization.

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but when you wish to visit our radio's website www.aurovilleradio.org, you are automatically redirected to www.aurovilletv.org. In fact the founder of AurovilleRadio, Andrea Tazzari, had not only the idea for radio but wanted additionally to develop a more visual project. Last week, the first step of AurovilleTV began. From now on, we will regularly present short video clips for you to broadcast. They will be related to Auroville or created by Aurovilians. The first of this series of clips will be on Indian Devotion, extracted from a DVD created by Basile and his wife.

For the beginning of this project we interviewed Andrea.

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A group of media practitioners, advocates and journalists met in Auroville to form the South India Community Media Network. This will ensure that the voice of every person can be heard and be accessible through community radio. To make it possible, the group urges the government of India to make the license application process a simple one. Also to be emphasized is the use of low-cost technology and, importantly, the freedom to broadcast news.

Here an interview with the Ashis Sen (VOICES), member of AMARC and also part of the Community Radio Foum (India). Other partecipats on the workshop are giving their opinion too.

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Peut-être ne l'aviez vous pas remarqué mais lorsque que vous souhaitez visiter le site de notre radio www.aurovilleradio.org, vous êtes automatiquement redirigé sur www.aurovilletv.org. En effet le fondateur de AurovilleRadio, Andrea Tazzari, n'a pas eu simplement l'idée d'une radio en ligne mais aussi de développer un projet plus visuel. Cette semaine la première étape d'AurovilleTV est en marche. Nous allons dorénavant vous proposer régulièrement de courts clips vidéo réalisés par des Auroviliens ou en rapport avec notre cité. Nous commenceront avec les « » ou « » filmées par .

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This event has been recorded. Nirmala Nair from ZERI in Cape Town and her friend Joy Tang from One Village Foundation will give a public presentation of the work of their respective organizations. Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives (ZERI) is a global network of creative minds seeking solutions to world challenges. The common vision shared by the members of the ZERI family is to view waste as resource and seek solutions using nature's design principles as inspiration. One Village Foundation (OVF) sees the challenge and opportunity of using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to address World Urgent Issues, by providing a platform for an integrated approach to sustainable development. The presentation will be held this evening at 8PM in the Conference Room – Town Hall.

In this week’s English News we have an interview with Manoj (pictured) and Annemarie in charge of AVNet, the Auroville's intranet network. Nikolai talks on the progress of the public transport service project.

In this week’s English News we have: -  The programme for the AVI (Auroville International) meeting in Formia, Italy. -  An invitation for nominations for a new Entry Service - The Universal Peace Meditation event -  Matrimandir needs volunteers - The Cathars, a talk by Djef Janardhana organised by the French Pavilion

Dans les nouvelles en français: - En préface, Gangalakshmi  lit l ’Agenda de Mère   - Un entretien avec Djef Janardhana sur  sa présentation des Cathars

News from Auroville is broadcast every hour via the World and City channels, here are the schedules. You can download the News from Auroville in English, French and Tamil.

For a long time, Aurovilian Charlie was known as Milk Charlie, ever since ihe joined Auroville in the very early days. Nowadays he is getting to be known as Apple Charlie as he's also the doctor of all ailing computers and laptops bearing the Apple brand. Even so, twice a day, day in day out, Charlie attends to his appointment with Athena, his preferred cow, and with all the other members of the bovine species: in Aurogreen, he is the only one to do this job...

Insight is broadcast each day at 4:15 AM and 4:15 PM (Indian Local Time). 

The Editors of the Russian the Web Site www.auroville.ru is inviting for gathering at Djaima, Auroville, on the 31st of May at 5 PM. The Editorial Board of the site will be selected at this meeting.

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free you can have a look how OpenOffice feels and looks like. The Cynergy  Team will answer your questions and give advise.

 

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 This event has been broadcasted live and recorded. The "Mind of the Cells" and Auroville Tuesday 7th of February - Conference Room Town Hall The quantum realm is the space of magic in modern physics. At the infinitesimal Planck scale, virtual particles flash in and out of existence with no apparent cause, yet are apparently the first cause of the subatomic particles and energy fields which eventually concatenate up to all of so-called material reality.

In this talk, we'll cover this and more, accompanied with actual electron microscope images of the microtubular structures within human brain cells. And we'll present evidence indicating that this evidence of individual quantum consciousness might be being expanded by non-local quantum effects to a collective Unity field coordinating a flood of breakthroughs around the world, that the process of supramentalization initiated by work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is in fact demonstrably well begun. - RON ANASTASIA

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A presentation by Dr. Roger Nelson Thursday December 29, 5.30 pm at Savitri Bhavan New Hall. Dr. Roger Nelson is Director of the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University, one of the most prestigious universities in the USA. He is in India just now and will be visiting the Ashram and Auroville on 29th and 30th December. At the suggestion of our friend Sraddhalu, Dr. Nelson has agreed to give a presentation on the Global Consciousness Project. Dr. Roger Nelson is Director of the Global Consciousness Project which is an international effort based in Princeton University. The project uses about 65 sensors distributed all over the world to detect what appears to be a global consciousness field that seems to embrace both the human mind and all material objects. Whenever a large number of human beings are aligned in thought or united in consciousness at some deeper level, these instruments measure a physical change in the random vibrations of atoms. This is the first time that science has been able to detect variations in the collective human consciousness using entirely material instruments. The kinds of events that have caused measurable changes include terrorist attacks, football matches, natural disasters, and mass meditations. Dr. Nelson will speak of the work done so far and its profound implications. For further information, see http://noosphere.princeton.edu

AurovilleRadio is continuing the experimental broadcasting on the City Channel. Saturday 26 November at 10.30 will be beamed live from the Town Hall the meetings of the Auroville Vision 2012.

Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation Programme staff needs coaching in advanced applications of Microsoft Excel. They need to take a look at the data records and rearrange such data in ways that make it easier to analyze and manage. The office phone numbers are 2622184 or 2622979 or contact Hans hansn@auroville.org or Brooks brooks@auroville.org

The Pata & the Patu performance and exibition The Pata & the Patua tradition of West Bengal paintings used by the story tellers of Bengal. The story teller of the Pata & the Patua tradition will held a performance at Kalakendra on 19th november at 4:00 pm and on 20th november at 3:00 pm.

AurovilleRadio is starting a new experimental broadcasting on the Internal Channel. The meetings of the Auroville Vision 2012 will be beamed live from the Town Hall, beginning Saturday 12 November at 10.30

The experimental AurovilleRadio City Channel has started on 22nd September 2005, thanks to the support of SkyNet which is providing a server and connectivity in Auroville. Differently to the "public channel" broadcast on Internet and accessible through the links provided on the mains pages of our site www.aurovilleradio.org, the AurovilleRadio Internal Channel is available only to the SkyNet subscribers and can be listened only in Auroville and is impossible to be accessed from the Internet. Presently, SkyNet is available in more than 80 places in Auroville: offices, public buildings, schools and private houses. So far the scheduling of the two channels of AurovilleRadio has been the same, but can be changed in the future. AurovilleRadio is starting a new experimental broadcasting on the Internal Channel, public events like open meetings held in the Town Hall's Conference Room. The meetings of the Auroville Vision 2012 will be beamed live from the Town Hall, beginning Saturday 12 November at 10.30. This service is dedicated to all those who are interested to participate in these meetings and discussions but can't be physically present.