Re: [Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-30 Thread Jon Stever, The Office RW
Thanks very much Chad, The international news on Africa is well-known for its bias. This country deserves more positive publicity. Rwanda is developing so fast - think East Asian growth miracle speed (poverty fell by 12 percentage points in the last 5 years and real GDP growth has averaged

Re: [Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-30 Thread Alex Hillman
Jon, I love the perspective you're bringing from your continent. Thank you! Have you connected with the folks at iHub in Nairobi yet? If not I'd love to connect you. We've written about African Coworking a number of times in CoworkingWeekly.com, I hope you'd be willing to share any great

Re: [Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-30 Thread TCS
Sounds like you are doing a great job! As for the Austin conference...it would be great time, but I'm wondering if the Coworking Europe event would be closer? http://coworkingeu.wordpress.com/ coming up in a couple weeks in Paris. They are not the same conference and attending both would be

Re: [Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-30 Thread Jonathan Stever
Thanks Alex, An introduction to the folks at iHub would be great! They are the granddaddy of innovation hubs in the region...they even got a shout out from the head of UNDP today at the African Economic Conference that is being held in Kigali this week. Thanks for the heads up on the coworking

[Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-29 Thread Jon Stever, The Office RW
Hey everyone, The Office RW is a new coworking space in Kigali, Rwanda. We opened two weeks ago for 12 crash-testers, and will open officially in December (www.TheOfficeRW.com). I've seen various groups (league of extraordinary co-working spaces, loose cubes, deskwanted, goodcoworking, etc),

Re: [Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-29 Thread TCS
Hey Ron, I'm sure there is good stuff happening over there all the time! The media tends to feature one side. Bad news is good news for news. SO nice to see some real good news coming out of Rwanda! Congrats! No harm in joining the list and networks, but your main market is your local

Re: [Coworking] Joining the international coworking movement

2012-10-29 Thread TCS
Sorry - Jon - not Ron! Chad Ballantyne 705.812.0689 c...@thecreativespace.ca On 2012-10-29, at 11:15 AM, TCS wrote: Hey Ron, I'm sure there is good stuff happening over there all the time! The media tends to feature one side. Bad news is good news for news. SO nice to see some real