Charities and foundations in Amsterdam can use vacant office space as free meeting rooms in a pilot scheme , which enhances the Dutch city 's reputation as Amsterdam ’s first " sharing city " . mark Schippers , programme director of the sharing economy drive , said the project had been difficult to put into practice , but said that if it worked , then it may be expanded and " we will probably find a nice sharing website " . Amsterdam launched an initiative for businesses to share resources , products and services after research suggested 84 % of Amsterdam residents were willing . The sharing community has said the initiative would not provide unfair competition to commercial office space providers .
Charities and foundations in Amsterdam can use vacant office space as free meeting rooms in a pilot scheme, which enhances the Dutch city's reputation as Europe’s first "sharing city". Nanette Schippers, programme manager of the sharing economy drive, said the project had been difficult to put into practice, but said that if it worked, then it may be expanded and "we will probably find a nice sharing website". Amsterdam launched an initiative for businesses to share resources, knowledge and services after research suggested 84% of Amsterdam residents were willing. The sharing community has said the initiative would not provide unfair competition to commercial office space providers.