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title: Digital Glarus
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subtitle: Using digitalisation for the good
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content:
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## Introduction
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[Digital Glarus](https://digitalglarus.ch) is an umbrella project to
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support the local community to profit from the digitalisation and to
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support the digital community to profit from the amazing opportunities
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in the [Canton of Glarus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glarus).
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## What we are doing
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In 2015 we opened the first coworking space of Glarus in
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Schwanden, the **Digital Chalet**. It was not only the first coworking
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space, it is also the first building that was equipped with a direct
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fiber line, initially giving access to a 1 Gbit/s line.
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Two days after opening, the first offsite happened. Our goal in 2015
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was already to give people the opportunity to stay in a pretty place
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and still be connected to a big city like Zurich.
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Since we opened in 2015, we welcomed many students (usually from
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the [university of Zurich](https://www.uzh.ch/)
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or [ETH Zurich](https://ethz.ch)) from a lot of different countries
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(Canada, Scotland, Greece, Germany, Slovakia, ...) in the Digital
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Chalet.
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We also organise [various
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meetups](https://www.meetup.com/Digital-Glarus-Business-Technology/)
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with technical and business topics.
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Due to the Digital Chalet getting crowded, we opened a new location
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in 2019: the [Hacking Hotel](/u/projects/hacking-hotel). We plan to
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turn the Hacking Hotel into a school and will offer first courses in
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2020.
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## How you can participate
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If you are interested in joining us, you can contact us by mail (info
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at digitalglarus.ch), [chat](https://chat.ungleich.ch) or even by
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phone (+41 55 505 62 66).
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It is possible to visit us for a day or two, or like many have, to
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stay longer and even stay with us permanently.
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