On Thursday we hosted another meeting of the ICT businesses within Brnopolis – an open Brno community of people in creative professions, and interested in international city development. The non-profit apolitical initiative invites and exchange opinions and experience through a moderated weblog, as well as face-to-face informal meetings held through the OpenCoffee Club, which meets in over 80 cities around the world.
You can take Brnopolis as an informal communication platform or a think tank network that brings like-minded people together to share ideas, contacts & experience. It also brings these voices to local government and policy makers in the region.
The city of Brno is a traditional hi-tech center with the unique position in education, research and development. However, it lacks openness to new ideas, contacts and opportunities, more diverse and cosmopolitan character.
Whom is Brnopolis for? Sociology calls them creative class (the book Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida actually inspired us) – entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, managers, cultural events organisers, university lecturers and students, architects, lawyers, doctors, computer programmers, representatives of media, financial services or design & advertisements, etc.
The special target group are expatriates living, working or studying in Brno. In addition to expats, we are looking for people with strong relation to Brno living abroad and partners for networking with Vienna and Bratislava creative hubs.
What do we discuss? Cafes and other places of authentic street culture: what places do we attend, International projects funded by EU programmes: how to apply and what to use funds for, City of universities and knowledge: where are talents and creative hi-tech jobs, Writers and bloggers: citizen journalism in the era of web 2.0 social networks.
A part of the blog content is in English and you are welcome to leave a comment if you have own experience from Brno or are going there.
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