Who, what and why.
My name is Jeremy Iggers, and I am the creator of Global Twin Cities. Exploring other countries and cultures has been a lifelong passion of mine, and so has bringing people together. I embarked on my first trip around the world at the age of 19, and connecting with people from different countries and cultures has been an important part of my life ever since.
I created Global Twin Cities to connect globally-minded Minnesotans to each other, and to the rest of the world. I am inviting friends of mine from around the world — including Australia, Brazil, Cuba, France, Iran and Turkey — to be part of this project, and I hope you will do the same.
Here are a few examples of how you can use this website:
- attract new members and audiences to your globally focused organizations and events.
- build your own private social network to connect your friends from Minnesota and around the world. Sort of like Facebook used to be, but without the advertising, algorithms and data mining.
- Ask Jose from Cuba or Pegah from Iran about life in their country, or about how they see our country. (More countries coming soon! )
- Start an interest group around a topic or country that interests you – anything from a German language conversation group to an ethnic dining club. Anything is fair game, as long as it is somehow related to connecting global and local, and conforms to our community guidelines.
- Check our calendar for local events that bring together Minnesota and the world – music, festivals, movies, food events and more. And add your own.
- Ask for international travel advice, or post your favorite travel stories.
- Start a conversation on our Forum page about anything from “What should be America’s Role in the World?” to “What’s on your international travel bucket list?”
Global Twin Cities also has a larger purpose. I believe that we can never have a healthy democracy as long as our social media (and economy and politics) are controlled by a handful of oligarchs. Global Twin Cities is intended as an experiment in creating a different kinds of social networks and different ways for people to connect. — ways that users can build for themselves, without algorithms, advertisers or spam. I will never sell or share your information, and the site is hosted in France, under European privacy laws. Global Twin Cities is free, non-commercial, and paid for by me.
This project will only succeed if it helps people like you to do the things you want to do. Please let me know how we can make it more useful.