Smart City Academy

Nanda Piersma is Professor Urban Analytics at the faculty Technology and the faculty Digital Media and Creative Industries of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences together with her appointment at CWI.

Data has been collected since mankind, but in the recent years the technical innovations enable us to collect exponentially growing amounts of data through the use of sensors, smart devices and other sources. In her lecture Nanda will explore the role of Big Data in urban environments. She will give an introduction to the world of Big Data and Smart Cities, and an assessment of the role that data analytics plays in the current state of the digital transformation in our cities. Examples are given in the field of energy and mobility.

Finally, she will address how Urban Analytics research contributes to the international network of researchers and stakeholders of data science.

Tuesday 17 april 2018 at 16.00 hrs dr Nanda Piersma, Professor Urban Analytics at CWI and the AUAS, will give her inaugural lecture in the Kohnstammzaal at the Kohnstammbuilding, Wibautstraat 2-4 in Amsterdam. You are welcome from 15.30 hrs.

The Executive Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences cordially invites you to attend this inaugural lecture.

Organizers:
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences – Play & Civic Media: Martijn de Waal & Nina Fistal (intern AUAS); Christian Frankel (Copenhagen Business School); Martijn Arets (Utrecht University/ http://www.deeleconomieinnederland.nl/) in the context of the EU COST Action CA 16121 From Sharing to Caring: Examing Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy http://sharingandcaring.eu/ Mediapartner: The Mobile City

Theme:
One of the promises of the emerging sharing or platform economy is that it could make neighborhoods more resilient: Platforms can provide new economic opportunities for citizens; contribute to social capital formation; empower citizens in democratic processes; and they could play a role in a more efficient management of resources and overall sustainability. At the same time critics have pointed out that platforms could also undermine some of these aspects: they could induce a precarization of labour, lead to social exclusion based on cultural capital, cause social fragmentation, or increase rather than decrease the use of resources.

In this workshop we want to further discuss / explore the relations between the rise of a platform economy in relation to the organization of resilient (social inclusive, sustainable) neighborhoods. What contexts, policies, design principles and governance models of digital platforms could contribute to more resilient neighborhoods? In particular, we would want to shift the debate from a focus on the major international platforms such as Airbnb and Uber, and explore the opportunities for locally organized platforms in relation to resilient neighborhoods.

Goal /Expected Outcomes:
The aim of this workshop is to understand better how local sharing economy initiatives can succeed. To do so three such initiatives will present their aims and their experiences. In learning from and with these three initiatives, their differences as well as similarities, we wish to discuss three questions:

* what are the aims of local initiatives for local communities and what are the aims of local communities with local initiatives?
* what are the specific problems of developing local initiatives — such as privacy and securing interests of users — and how are these problems handled?
* what tools are available for local initiatives — in terms of organizational structures, ownership forms, platform designs — and how are such tools used in practice?
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Programme:
13:00-13:30 Introduction of participants & themes
13:30-14:30 Introductionary remarks & context
Break
15:00-15:30 Introduction of Cases
15:30-16:30 Groups discussions
16:30-17:00 Plenary reports & Conclusions
17:00 Drinks & Dinner (optional)

Want to participate?
We welcome applications for participants. This will be a small scale in depth workshop with limited capacity. If you are interested please send an e-mail with a brief bio (1-2 paragraphs) and motivation (1-2) paragraphs to ninafistal@gmail.com no later than April 8. We will let you know whether we are able to accomodate you before April 10.

Contact:
For questions about practicalities, please contact ninafistal@gmail.com; for other questions b.g.m.de.waal@hva.nl

Students and teachers/ lecturers: The submission deadline for the student competition for the Transition Zero Award 2018 has been extended. Send in your contribution until March 11th 2018!

Hanze Hogeschool is looking for students to send in ideas that contribute in any way to the energy transition. Contributions may be from various perspectives: from saving energy to energy storage and from circular economy to mobility solutions.

To be able to compare them, students need to provide some additional information using to the two formats in the attached call for projects.

What’s in it for a student?
• A stage to share their ideas at the international conference Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism (RRAU18.nl).
• A strong network of people at the conference that might help to bring ideas further.
• First price: €3000; Second price €1500; Third price €500.
• A commemorative award.

Smarter, cleaner and faster. That's the idea behind bundling the supply chain by the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, the University of Amsterdam, PostNL and other partners. 8 months after launching this supply hub, project leader Susanne Balm draws up the balance, and shares 12 important lessons learned of this Smart City Logistics project!

Link in Dutch.

This week, meet Willem van Winden and Daniel van der Buusse, working on innovation ecosystems and the role of different organizations within smart city projects.
Are you interested in their expertise, do you want to know more or want to connect? Feel free to get in contact.

They recently published a paper about upscaling of smart city projects:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319496333_Smart_City_Pilot_Projects_
Exploring_the_Dimensions_and_Conditions_of_Scaling_Up

On the 16th of January 40 smart city professionals met our smart city researchers at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science. Our researchers presented their fields of knowledge, projects and tools. After which the Smart city professionals took the stage and pitched their smart city issues in order to win one of our research vouchers (equals one fulltime week of research). Each organization was matched with one of our researchers in order to start a research or student project.

The ambition of the smart city academy is to make our knowledge and tools more visible and applicable to smart city professionals. That’s why we for example presented our projects on upscaling, business models, entrepreneurship and learning, user design, stakeholder engagement and data. We showed a couple of our tools, like ‘the multi stakeholder multi criteria analysis’ (MAMCA), which can be uses to discuss and weight the interests of stakeholders in smart city initiatives. And our multi stakeholder business canvas, that is still in development, which helps finding a viable business model that suits the needs for all involved stakeholder your smart city project.

The researchers and organizations that brought up their smart city issue will continue with drawing up a research question which will be evaluated by the smart city academy professors; at the end of January. We will grant four research vouchers to the most promising combinations.

Big thanks to Mark Deakin for giving a key note on his research on sustainable smart city developments and offering a theoretical framework. And to those brave enough to climb up the soap box and present their smart city issue. We showed once again that a smart city is indeed a learning city!

Are you curious about our researchers and their ambitions? Starting a project together of doing a masterclass on one of the subjects mentioned above? Contact the academy at smartcityacademy@hva.nl and find us on the website.