Sustainability

On April 8th Ulrike was invited to give a talk at the HS Pforzheim. The topic was: How to drive longlasting (social) change (=sustainalbility). 80 students were watching online the Q&A – Benjamin Fritz, who has been to Janwaar for six weeks in 2019/2020, was asking the questions – it was fun! At the end […]

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OMG! Yeh Mera India

Next week OMG! Yeh Mera India will shoot in Janwaar. They did an interview with me ahead of the shoot, it was recorded in Luz de Tavira, Portugal, where I am currently. Thank you Michael Sauer, Leading Interactive, for helping out and recording the interview. Here is a slightly polished transcript. OMG! Yeh Mera India […]

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7 Rules to Disrupt Successfully

Last week I was part of a Musterbrecher-workshop (online) “Unternehmertum” (Entrepreneurship), which they condicted for their client freenet, Hamburg, Germany. My role was to share my experiences with my social experiment in Janwaar and to draw parallels between my work in the village and my work as a consultant for companies. This might seem odd […]

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Re-thinking education

From Jan. 20-55, 2020 I was in Bombay, India at the MIT India Initiative. I was invited to talk about Re-thinking Education. Here is my talk – I hope there is something in it for you! That’s an audio file of my talk. When I went to school I always felt like an outsider.I never […]

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TEDxBillabong Bhopal

In April 2018 I gave another TEDxTalk in Bhopal. This time I was focussing on what we, as an NGO, do differently. And I made three essential points: First, everything we do we do WITH the community, not FOR them. We don’t pre-define programs. We don’t define any kind of outcome – which doesn’t mean […]

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Ulrike @TEDx : “Finding my own way!”

Early in November 2017 Ulrike, the founder of Janwar Castle and The Rural Changemakers gave a TEDx talk at TEDxWomenFlanders. Her talk is abut how the Internet and the open processes at its core have helped her to live her life and achieve things which she never thought of being capable to achieve. Looking back […]

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