Hi everyone, This is a great thread and I am wondering if there have been any more stories (since 2012!) in this topic of local government folks working in coworking spaces to share? I have a very innovative City Council manager who is looking to work from our space, as their new goal in the city is to reduce the ratio of # of desks:employees from 7:10 down to 4:10. She has small children at home (dad is the caregiver) and so she can't work from home. Plus she's awesome and we'd love to have her in our space :). As usual, she is getting a bit of pushback, so she was hoping I might have some examples she could share to bolster her case. If you happen to be in the UK and have examples, that will be super, but all examples and stories are much appreciated! Thanks in advance! -Sabrina THINQTANQ <http://thinqtanq.spaces.nexudus.com/en> Plymouth, UK
On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 5:12:22 PM UTC+1, Alex Hillman 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 > > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
