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In August 2011, a group of leading social entrepreneurs traveled to Uganda. Our aim was to meet with NGOs, businesses and inspiring individuals committed to making a difference. In a number of brainstorms, co-creation sessions and open spaces we saught to share and learn, to inspire and be inspired. Welcome to Creative Minds Uganda.
Birth
Creative Minds was born in the minds of Sanne Roemen and Michel Groenenstijn. The former is a leading Dutch expert on civil society and social media who visited Uganda in early 2010. The latter is the founder of Be More, an organization that supports African NGOs with volunteers and fair tourism, including several in Uganda.
Sanne and Michel work with many inspiring creative people in the Netherlands and are awed by Uganda’s enormous power and potential. They imagined combining the two and take the most creative entrepreneurs they know on a trip to visit Uganda’s change makers. That’s the seed of the project: Creative Minds Uganda.
The idea
Creative Minds is an ongoing experiment to find out what happens if you bring together creative minds from different cultures, backgrounds and experience. We aim to support inspiring initiatives with our knowledge and skills, and we hope to learn and to bring lessons back from Uganda to share with others.
We focus on entrepreneurship, social businesses, NGOs making a difference, new technology and creativity. We work together in open spaces where the agenda is set by the participants, focusing on whatever issues arise, in brainstorms, dialogue, workshops and in training.
Who are we?
Our creative minds are:
Anneke de Bundel
Anneke de Bundel – travel writer, creates portraits of people heading upstream, looking for happiness; interested in why people do what they do. Will create a diary of our trip.
Fanny Koerts
Fanny Koerts – works on social dynamics and talent development of groups. Interested in shining a new and creative light on complex processes.
Jaap van 't Kruis
Jaap van ’t Kruis – digital storyteller. Creates visual stories of interesting people, places and issues. Will keep a visual diary of our trip.
Jasper de Vries
Jasper de Vries – works on human interaction, with a special focus on effectiveness, as opposed to efficiency. Inspires people to become more effective, and forget efficiency.
Michel Groenenstijn
Michel Groenenstijn – co-founder of Be More, an international volunteer- and fair tourism-organization. Works in several African countries, inclusing Uganda. Co-initiator of Creative Minds.
Niels Jansen
Niels Jansen – marketing manager at 1%CLUB, a digital platform for international development projects, linking them to people, money and knowledge.
Nils Roemen - Foto: Punkmedia
Nils Roemen – founder of daretoask, a new way of achieving your dreams. Focuses on social surplus, by connecting the right people, ideas and resources to move mountains.
Olga Plokhooij
Olga Plokhooij – founder of Netherlands in Dialogue, focuses on how people collaboration and decision making through different forms of dialogue. Works with businesses and individuals on the subject of leadership and effective collaboration.
Sanne Roemen - Foto: Anjoescha Odufré, Studio 20
Sanne Roemen – civil cociety and social media expert, speaker, trainer and networker. Helps civil initiatives become more successful by using free modern online technology as leverage. Focuses on digital technology and lifehacking.
Who are you?
For Creative Minds we are looking to meet inspiring people. Ideas that are changing the world, people that are making a difference, initiatives that matter – we would like to meet you!
What we can offer you is a couple of hours of creative power, of exchanging ideas, of practical support and access to our networks. We would like you to tap in to our knowledge, skills and experience insofar as they are useful to your projects and ideas. In return we’d like to learn from and be inspired by you: your vision, challenges and successes that help change the world. We would like to bring back inspiring stories and lessons to share with our networks “back home”.
When
We will be in Uganda from August 6 – 21.
From August 7 to 10 we will be in the Kampala area, the rest of our trip will be spent in the Masaka area.
From 19 – 21 August we will be in the Kabale area.
Contact
If you are interested, please reply to whomever you received this document from, or contact us directly at sanne@oomph.nl or michel@be-more.org.
