Alex, One of our Gangplank locations has City Staff (Economic Development) that works out of the space once per week.
-- Derek On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]>wrote: > There have been threads about coworking spaces working with local > governments, and (I think) examples of city officials joining coworking > spaces…but I'm pretty excited about the fact that one of our members has > just been recruited as Philadelphia's first Chief Data Officer as part of > the city's push towards open data for citizens. > > > http://technicallyphilly.com/2012/08/13/mark-headd-first-ever-city-of-philadelphia-chief-digital-officer > > We've played an active role in that initiative, and a very vocal supporter > of some leaders in City Hall who have attempted to interact with the > community in a way that's a bit more coworking-like. Mark's made it a point > to say that he feels that in order for him to do this job effectively he > wants to maintain strong ties to the community that supported him up > through his appointment. > > Related, but separately, we're working on a program to invite city > officials/workers to work from Indy Hall once a month as an opportunity to > embed themselves in our community better as well > > This post is partially to share my personal excitement for this milestone > in OUR community, and wondering if anyone else has similar success stories. > > I know that Gangplank has a very tight relationship with their local gov't > and a number of other spaces have casual/functional relationships (a lot > like we've had up until this point), but I'm wondering mostly about > examples about embedding city officials in coworking spaces and vice/versa. > > -Alex > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
