What is “InterNations”?

Mission
InterNations is the first international online community for people who live and work abroad. As a network based on trust, we enable our members to interact with other global minds in a similar situation, with comparable interests and needs. InterNation users can keep in touch with friends and business contacts; they can exchange reliable information on expat-specific topics, both on a global and a local level.
Members
InterNations reaches out to the international community: diplomats, members of IGOs and NGOs, foreign correspondents, expatriates employed by multinational companies and their family members. We also cater to the interests of local residents with strong ties to this community (e.g. journalists).
Our network is represented by more than 390 local communities all over the world – the perfect platform to exchange opinions and information on local particularities.
Gilbert is a member since June 2008 of the Beijing Community. See here the presence in Greater China:

  • Beijing – 13,216 members (a large number are actually local Chinese!)
  • Tianjin – 275 members
  • Shanghai – 15,994 members
  • Chongqing – 164 members
  • Hong Kong – 16,141 members
  • Taipei – 3,352 members


Membership is strictly invitation-based: You may join the community only after receiving an invitation from a current member. In this way, InterNations will remain a network of personal trust, where data security and privacy protection are top priorities.
With InterNations you can:

  • Meet other global minds
  • Stay in touch with international friends
  • Receive advice from expats
  • Share your thoughts in the World Forum or the Town Talk
  • Help young people from a less privileged background

Founders
InterNations is the idea of Christian Leifeld, Philipp von Plato and Malte Zeeck. All of them have studied and worked in various foreign countries. During their stays they discovered, like many other expatriates, it was often difficult to find other like-minded people, to get around and to find the right locations in a foreign country. Building upon work experience in international management consultancies and media companies, Christian, Malte and Philipp decided to set up InterNations to make living abroad easier. Today InterNations is run by Malte and a team of dedicated global minds.
See the website for further details:
http://www.internations.org/about/internations?ref=fo_ab
More posts about InterNations, see my other blog http://www.beijing1980.com