Fremont Joins Nonprofit Tech Partnership With San Jose and Santa Clara

The City of Fremont is taking another step to claim its stake in Silicon Valley. 

According to the Fremont Argus, the city is joining San Jose and Santa Clara in the Silicon Valley Talent Partnership, a public-private collaborative that aims to partner with tech companies to help cities deliver public services.

“This means that our efforts to expand Fremont’s role within Silicon Valley are paying off,” Mayor Bill Harrison told the newspaper.

San Jose city staff invited the City to join the new, innovative partnership.

Harrison told the Argus that the group hopes to forge alliances with tech giants such as Google and Adobe.

Though few details about the partnership have been revealed, Jeremy Goldberg, lead designer of the SVTP, wrote in a Huffington Post blog last month that an advisory council of executives from Adobe, Cisco, IBM eBay and other companies have helped develop the group’s strategic plan.

“By leveraging technologies such as open-data platforms, cross-departmental collaboration tools, and crowd-sourced and cloud-based applications, the opportunity for knowledge sharing and cross-jurisdiction collaboration is huge,” Goldberg wrote.

Read Goldberg’s blog here.