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De #coronacrisis drukt ons met onze neus op de feiten. Met de meeste internetaansluitingen per persoon en de hoogste internetsnelheid van Europa kunnen we niet veilig, snel en op schaal gezondheidsdata delen voor een betere patiëntenzorg. Hoe creëren we een internet waarmee we data veilig, op schaal en uitsluitend voor een bepaald doel delen?

“AMdEX stimuleert innovatie en de data economie, en voorkomt misbruik en monopolies.”

Lees verder in de blog van Willem Koeman - Challenge Lead Digitale Connectiviteit:
https://amsterdameconomicboard.com/nieuws/we-hebben-het-beste-internet-van-de-wereld-straks-ook-het-veiligste

Last weekend I participated in the Dutch edition of #HacktheCrisis as mentor on behalf of Amsterdam Smart City. The event was initiated by TNW, Innofest, StartupAmsterdam and Brain Fuel, with support from over 130 organizations.

#Hackthecrisis is a global hackaton movement which started in Estonia three weeks ago and spread to nearly 70 countries. The goal is to come up with solutions to the COVID-19 crisis.

The 48-hour hackathon attracted approximately 600 participants and 200 mentors working on four challenges: health & wellbeing, logistics, remote education and SME’s business continuity.

For many, including mentors, judges and organizers, this was their first virtual hackaton, powered by Slack and other digital tools.

The output: 55 solutions submitted via the F6S platform, accompanied by a 3 minute pre-recorded video-pitch. Pitches were assigned to mentors for review and evaluation based on the following criteria: 1.Problem & Impact, 2. Design & Technical Aspects, 3. Originality, 4. Feasibility, 5. Business Model and 6. Money Usage. A panel of judges deliberated over the top three finalists per theme before announcing the winners via live stream.

And the winners are…

Challenge 1: Logistics & Supply Chain
Winner: PPlCert -- Peer-to-peer platform for medical equipment
In this category, many groups tried to tackle the shortage of protective equipment in hospitals. Because supplies have to be sourced quickly, following a traditional procurement process is not feasible. At the same time, healthcare professionals and institutions have to ensure that products flooding the market meet necessary standards and are actually safe. The winning team developed "PPlcert" - a peer-to-peer platform where healthcare professionals can review and validate products, increasing transparency and reliability. Similar to Airbnb or Uber, anyone purchasing equipment can rate the product, enabling healthcare organizations to learn and benefit from each other’s experience.

Challenge 2: Remote Education
Winner: Ediya – Using gamification to keep students motivated

In this category, the winning team identified a key challenge with remote learning: keeping students motivated and engaged. This led to the development of the platform “Ediya” where teachers keep their students motivated through fun challenges. The platform is easy to use and enables teachers to learn from and adopt each other’s challenges, improving the performance of students and teachers alike.

Challenge 3: SME Business Continuity
Winner: Roodkappje – Local volunteers supporting small food suppliers
In this track teams tried the address the challenge of many small business being closed and facing bankruptcy. To tackle this problem, the winning team came up with "Roodkappje" – an app which matches small food suppliers with local volunteers who deliver meals to people who are not able or don’t dare to leave their homes. The app creates “missions” -- orders that must be delivered to customers. Local volunteers deliver orders to stay fit and help their local bakery or restaurant survive the crisis.

Challenge 4: Healthcare & Wellbeing
Winner: AnalysisMode – Cracking a vaccine through gamification

This challenge saw the most number of participants and submissions which is logical as COVID-19 is first and foremost a medical emergency.

The winner in this category was "AnalysisMode" - a collaborative platform accelerating the development of a vaccine with the help of willing citizens. Anyone can help by playing a game that identifies patterns which will later be used to teach an artificial intelligence (AI) to predict vaccine formulas. To date, the game has been played more 7,000 times by people from 93 countries. The team is already working with University of Oxford and others to develop the solution further.

Honorable Mention: Smart Quarantine

Although not a winner, "Smart Quaratine" deserves a mention for tackling a very urgent problem. The solution builds on contact-tracing solutions implemented in Singapore and the Czech Republic. The team proposes the development of a GDPR compliant and privacy-preserving solution for the government and citizens. This solution enables a data-driven, or “smart” lockdown in order to restart the economy while preventing a second wave of the epidemic.

The app tracks the people you have been in contact with and asks for your permission to share this data with relevant agencies and anyone you might have been in contact with if you test positive. The app also shows concentrated areas of activity and impacts on various professions and regions, providing insights into whether it’s safe to visit certain locations. This type of solution is key to finding a balance between protecting lives and livelihoods by ending the general lockdown and restarting the economy while also preventing a second wave of infection.

Next Steps

As hackers will often tell you, success is 10% idea and 90% implementation. In order to make an impact in the short-term, several organizations, including Yes!Delft, Smart Health Amsterdam and Sanquin will work with the winning teams to implement their solutions.

To support the further development of all initiatives, Corona Community Care was launched - an open platform where anyone can share their idea. The platform also matches startups to mentors from the likes of EY, Uniliver, Accenture and Booking.com.

Hack the Crisis wrapped up with a special announcement from the president of Estonia, calling on hackers to participate in the Global Hack, April 9-12. Having emerged as a global digital leader, Estonia’s initiative is a great example of how we can leverage the power of digital, collaborative innovation during these unprecedented times.

I came away from the weekend feeling inspired by what can be achieved in 48 hours and energized by the idea that the COVID-19 crisis might pave the way for radical collaboration models.

More information:

• Finale live stream
• TNW Press-release (in Dutch)

Do you like to work on complex urban issues involving multiple stakeholders and with direct effect for the Amsterdammer? From AI and data science, to smart mobility and circular economy, there are a number of opportunities to join the CTO innovation team.

Check out these current opportunities:

AI developer
Back end developer
Business developer (AI Team)
Data engineer
Data scientist (Smart Mobility Program)
Front end developer
Full stack developer
Project manager (MaaS & shared mobility)
Technical information analyst (Smart Mobility Program)
Tech lead circular economy

For complete information and application procedure, refer to the City of Amsterdam’s website: https://www.amsterdam.nl/bestuur-organisatie/werkenbij/externe/

Or mail us for any questions: innovatie@amsterdam.nl

COVID-19 has turned our world upside down. Humanity is facing significant health and economic challenges, and we need to find ways to tackle them. That’s why – inspired by the #hackthecrisis global movement – TNW and Innofest Nederland initiated a volunteer-led online innovation marathon in the Netherlands co-organised with us StartupAmsterdam, Startupbootcamp, Brain Fuel, Women in AI, GoodUp, Hoax, Smart Camels event design, and EY.

This hackathon will focus on finding solutions in the fields of patient care, protection for medical and sanitary staff at the hospitals, virus containment, and digital solutions for people and businesses during social distancing, among others.

The application form is still open for participants, mentors and partners. So bring in your skillset, open up your network, and let's #HacktheCrisis together!

👉 Sign up now:
https://www.hackthecrisis.nl/en/

Urban innovation rhetoric often differentiates between government-imposed “top-down” measures and community-led “bottom-up” approaches. In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, we are seeing rapid proliferation of both top-down and bottom-up innovations.

Top-down

Many governments have implemented surveillance technologies to track the location of infected people and monitor quarantines. These innovations are usually re-purposing existing technology but they are also controversial:

• China installed CCTV cameras outside apartment doors of coronavirus carriers to enforce quarantines and uses mobile apps and QR codes to track the health of individuals.
• Hong Kong requires coronavirus carriers to wear a wristband linked to a smartphone app, alerting authorities if the person leaves quarantine.
• Taiwan tracks quarantined people’s phones using data from cell-phone towers. The system which is described as a “digital fence” alerts authorities when someone leaves the area.
• Singapore has deployed an app called TraceTogeher using bluetooth signals between cellphones to monitor whether potential carriers of the virus have been in close contact with other people.
• South Korea uses a “smart city” dashboard that combines smartphone location data, CCTV video data and credit card transaction data to reduce contact-tracing time and inform people who might have come in contact with a coronavirus carrier.
• Moscow uses facial recognition and a 170,000-camera system to enforce quarantine.
• Israel's security agency is using citizens’ cell phone location data collected over the past few years for counterterrorism purposes to track and enforce quarantine controls.

There is some evidence linking surveillance technologies to slowing the spread of the virus, but privacy advocates warn the coronavirus could acclimatize the public into accepting a new normal of intrusive technologies. Fans of surveillance note that citizens who accept surveillance by companies selling advertising should not be upset if the technology is used to save lives and protect society.

The Netherlands is considering the use of cellphone location data to slow the spread of the virus (as is already done in Germany, Italy and Austria), but such data must be aggregated and anonymized. Anonymized data can help authorities understand where people are congregating and reduce the rate of infection, without compromising privacy.
Bottom-up

So what are alternatives to top-down governmental responses to the pandemic?

On March 27, Amsterdam launched WijAmsterdam (WeAmsterdam), a platform to crowd-source social initiatives combating the crisis. WijAmsterdam was built using open-source code developed in previous innovation projects. The platform lists more than 180 initiatives (as of April 1) varying from people delivering meals to neighbors to digital programming by the Rijksmuseum.

Here are a few more inspiring examples of bottom-up innovation:
• Coronavirus Army is a grassroots volunteer initiative developing open-source and privacy-friendly digital solutions to help tackle the pandemic. Examples of tools currently under development include the Outbreak Tracker app which tracks your location but keeps your private data on your phone. If you test positive for COVID-19, you can then “share” the last 10-15 days of your location history to the server and have it matched against other app users to inform those who might be at risk after being in the same location as you.
• Hack the crisis a global movement of hackathons developing tech-based solutions for crisis response and post-crisis era. WirVsVirus (We against the virus) hosted by the German government in March had more than 40,000 participants working on more than 800 ideas. The hackaton is coming to the Netherlands April 3- 5!
• OpenCovid19 is a program that aims to develop low-cost, open-source COVID-19 creating prevention, testing, and treatment kits to fight the pandemic.
• Open Source Ventilator (OSV) is a group of engineers, designers, medical professionals and volunteers working together to generate open source designs for ventilators that can be produced at scale.

The bigger picture

The coronavirus pandemic is fast-tracking many technological and social innovations. Experts are warning the crisis will undermine people’s privacy as governments implement top-down policies that weaken individual liberties.

In recent years, Amsterdam has positioned itself as a leader in responsible digitalization. Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York co-initiated the Cities for Digital Rights coalition to safeguard privacy, freedom of expression, and democracy. And Amsterdam’s government is working on the implementation of the Digital City Agenda and TaDa principles, guided by a conviction that inclusive and fair digitalization contributes to individual freedom.

As authoritarian regimes use this crisis to grab power at the cost of civil liberties, my hope is that Amsterdam and the Netherlands will respond by safeguarding personal freedom from the top and encouraging collaborative innovation from the bottom.

What do you think? How should government and civil society cooperate during the outbreak? Do you have examples of top-down or bottom-up innovations that help without compromising civil liberties? Please comment below.

Dexes en Madaster zijn de winnaars van de prijsvraag voor een open, eerlijke en betrouwbare datamarkt in de Metropool Amsterdam. Met een investering van 750.000 euro mogen zij hun grootse ambities realiseren.

“Er is heel veel waardevolle data, maar er zijn nog te veel technische en juridische drempels om deze slim te delen.” En dat moet snel worden opgelost, zoals ook de huidige coronacrisis ons laat zien.

Benieuwd naar hun plannen? Lees verder in onderstaande link.

While most of us are working from home now, the Amsterdam Smart City team will support you with some inspiration and learnings about the city. We handpicked videos worth watching!

**Also in these surreal times, you don’t have to be bored. Because on the bright side, there is more time to zoom out from your usual day-to-day activities and time to read the book you wanted for so long, time to listen to that really popular podcast or time to check out videos about the development of the city.

We selected these ones about the Digital City: recorded in 2019 and 2020 in Pakhuis De Zwijger, thé dialogue center in Amsterdam.**

Find the programs (all in Dutch this time) below and stay tuned for the next videos about a different theme!

5 maart 2020: Eerlijke Algoritmen

Algoritmen zijn overal en bepalen steeds meer in ons dagelijks leven. We gebruiken het voor de beste smartphone foto's, maar ook bij misdaadpreventie en het opsporen van fraude bij de sociale dienst. Maar hoe neutraal is deze onzichtbare spelverdeler? Hoeveel van onze voorliefdes of vooroordelen nemen deze systemen over? En hoe krijgen we hier grip op? In deze talkshow - Next Level - wordt in Pakhuis de Zwijger gesproken over de impact van technologie op onze samenleving.

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Next Level #1: Eerlijke algoritmen

Algoritmen zijn overal en bepalen steeds meer in ons dagelijks leven. We gebruiken het voor de beste smartphone foto's, maar ook bij misdaadpreventie en het opsporen van fraude bij de sociale dienst. Maar hoe neutraal is deze onzichtbare spelverdeler? Hoeveel van onze voorliefdes of vooroordelen nem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn1RE6XUKqA)

15 maart 2019: Amsterdam Smart City: De Digitale Stad

Technologie speelt een steeds grotere rol in ons dagelijks leven. Maar ook in steden wordt digitalisering steeds belangrijker. Hoe houden we met een Smart City aanpak de Metropoolregio Amsterdam leefbaar? Hoe zorgen we dat digitalisering menselijk en voor iedereen toegankelijk blijft? Tijdens deze sessie van Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) kijken we naar verschillende projecten rondom digitaal ondernemerschap. Je krijgt de kans om mee te denken over een aantal projecten van ASC en haar partners. Op welke manier gaat de gemeente de Digitale Stad inrichten? Hoe geven projecten vorm aan deze digitale stad in de praktijk? En wat kan jij als bewoner van de stad doen?

Met Amsterdam Smart City partners Tada, Nemo, Gemeente Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam Smart City #3: De Digitale Stad

Technologie speelt een steeds grotere rol in ons dagelijks leven. Maar ook in steden wordt digitalisering steeds belangrijker. Hoe houden we met een Smart City aanpak de Metropoolregio Amsterdam leefbaar? Hoe zorgen we dat digitalisering menselijk en voor iedereen toegankelijk blijft? Tijdens deze s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSsFOOQmqQ8)

14 februari 2019: New Economy Techgiganten

Wordt onze economie beheerst door een handvol techgiganten en welke invloed hebben deze bedrijven op de stad?

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New Economy #15: Techgiganten

Wordt onze economie beheerst door een handvol techgiganten en welke invloed hebben deze bedrijven op de stad? Al gehoord van ‘The Big Five’? En nee, dan hebben we het niet over een Afrikaanse safari, maar over de vijf grote techbedrijven Alphabet (Google), Facebook, Amazon, Apple en Microsoft. Deze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il8qCuffC24)

We will add more videos in the next days and collect all of them here. Check out videos about Energy, Circular City, Mobility and Citizens&Living.

For urban innovation and digitalisation efforts to succeed, a municipality needs to think through its internal organisation and governance structures. Few ingredients more sharply define the difference between success and failure than having the right governance structures in place.

We asked member city leaders from the Cities Today Institute to share their organisational structure and governance choices. What does their mandate look like? How do they operate across silos? And what to do with the traditional IT manager?

Lidar is what robots use to read and navigate our built environment. Also known as point cloud or 3D scanning, Lidar becomes a wonderful 'black canvas' to paint a new portrait of our digital surroundings. We created a point cloud scan animation of the Marineterrein in the heart of Amsterdam that revealed the many data sets being collecting in our living lab. Like Bob Ross, we used the data and points to paint to a new landscape explaining our 21st century city.

Check out how we created this animation here: http://tapp.nl/point-cloud-scan-animation

I'll be giving alking about the point cloud animation and process at the upcoming Sensemakers AMS talk “DigitalTwins - cities, neighborhoods and infra” 19 February 2020. Signup here: http://meetu.ps/e/Hwyjq/8dXgR/a

Im the newest episode in my series 'Looking for humane cities' I focus on digital justice. I believe that that Amsterdam is an inspiring example that has started to bring digital justice into practice.

Wie dat prettiger vindt kan ook de Nederlandse versie lezen van dit artikel: https://wp.me/p32hqY-1Q4

Technology like big data and smart sensors can help solve urban challenges. But when collecting data in the city, what public values are involved? Exploring new applications, like scan cars, helps to grasp the complexity of Responsible Urban Digitization.

The scan car as a use case
One example of sensing technologies used in cities are “scan cars”. These vehicles are equipped with sensors to collect data on the urban environment. Scan cars are becoming increasingly smart to improve efficiency and help the municipality to carry out tasks – from parking policy enforcement to waste registration.

But apart from making the city more efficient and clean, we question and explore what public and democratic values should be embedded in the implementation of these scan cars. For example, with regard to their purpose of urban data collection, could scan cars be designed in a way that make them (more) transparent, understandable or even contestable by citizens? In other words, what features could make these vehicles more “human”?

This November, together with UNSense, we invited representatives from the City of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, TADA and researchers from TU Delft to join us for a 3-day sprint to design “the scan car of the future”, that also looks at the human and fair values of the advances in technology. Continue reading this article here:

On Dec 2, Amsterdam Smart City and DataLab Amsterdam co-hosted the third “Data Dilemmas” event of the year — bringing together professionals to share experiences and dilemmas related to responsible use of data. Perspectives were featured from the cities of Hilversum, Boston, Amsterdam, and Reykjavik. A panel discussion followed which was moderated by Amsterdam Smart City’s program director, Leonie van den Beuken.

On Dec 2, Amsterdam Smart City and DataLab Amsterdam co-hosted the third “Data Dilemmas” event of the year — bringing together professionals to share experiences and dilemmas related to responsible use of data. Perspectives were featured from the cities of Hilversum, Boston, Amsterdam, and Reykjavik. A panel discussion followed which was moderated by Amsterdam Smart City’s program director, Leonie van den Beuken.

Herbert Steeman of Atos, the lead partner of a consortium which recently won a tender to develop a smart city data platform for the City of Hilversum, presented their vision for an open standard data platform. Working with Sustainder, Dynniq, Vodaphone-Ziggo and Esri, the platform will structure and combine data across various domains of the municipality. Herbert emphasized that the data platform does not in it of itself produce any results for the city; as such Atos will bring in a number of use cases already tested in other cities, for instance related to noise pollution and parking management.

Next, Jaclyn Youngblood, from the New Urban Mechanism department at the City of Boston, presented a number of data and civic innovation projects. Among them, “Where’s My Bus” is an open source application that makes it possible for parents to track their children’s school bus, helping reduce worry and frustration, especially during winter months when buses are more likely to be delayed. In a later phase of the project, children could tap-on and off the bus, automatically generating notification SMS’s for the parents. This led to ethical debates regarding tracking of buses vs children and how to do this in a safe and privacy-friendly way. Jaclyn reflected on the sensitivity of these discussions, especially given the history of surveillance technologies, which in Boston and other American cities have had a predominantly negative impact on communities of color. Jaclyn also presented “Beta Blocks,” a project that aims to engage people in a discussion about the deployment of technology in public realm through the use of a mobile exhibit.

Next-up Sander van der Waal from Waag presented their recent work on designing a framework for a Bicycle Data Commons, part of the European project Muvv. Together, Waag, the City of Amsterdam Chief Technology Office (CTO), and Vervoeregio (Transport Region Amsterdam) have the goal of designing a data commons where the community jointly sets the rules for access and use of data. Over a series of co-creation sessions, cycling and data experts worked to sketch a framework for a Bicycle Data Commons that aimed to secure data and privacy while making it possible to innovate by using data in new use cases. One of the key outcomes of the co-creation sessions was for stakeholders to articulate key values which would guide further developments, namely: 1. public interest 2. level playing field 3. transparency, 4. accessibility, and 5. sovereignty. The framework developed also aims to provide an alternative to the two dominant options when it comes to data collection: either you are being tracked or you can opt-out form the service. Waag advocates for a third option which gives citizens back control over what data they share.

The last presentation was by Óli Páll Geirsson, the City of Reykjavik’s Chief Data Officer (CDO). Óli’s task is to integrate various municipal data sets into a data-warehouse, as a way of supporting and improving the city’s capacity for evidence-driven decision making. A major barrier to achieve this data-driven organization is the archaic data architecture whereby data is locked up in silos. As the City of Reykjavik takes on this challenge, Óli and three of his colleagues visited Amsterdam to learn from Data Punt’s experience with similar developments.

During the panel discussion, several dilemmas were explored, for instance related to data minimization. In the time of “more” and “bigger” data, can governments train themselves to collect only the data that is necessary? The Cities of Amsterdam and Boston are working on this “data-minimization” concept.

Did you attend the Data Dilemmas event and do you have any additional thoughts or feedback from the discussion? Or do you have an example of a data dilemma which you would like to share with the community during a Data Dilemma event in 2020? Post your question or comment below or email <a>nancy@amsterdamsmartcity.com</a>.

This year, the Future City Foundation and 26 public and private partners are investigating how we should design the smart city. The network assumes that urban design and the products that result from it are radically changing. Just like it happened with other industries. They want to understand how it happens, what are the opportunities and what are the risks. They present the results of the research in the book: “A smart city, this is how you do it – Connected, flexible and meaningful: make the real future city”. The book is available in Dutch and a summary in English.

The original version of the book is in Dutch (212 pages) with theory about digitalization and technologization in vision and plans, 27 tutorials including the Model Bylaw Smart City Applications in the Public Space and 15 examples of smart city applications in the Netherlands. Download the Dutch version on https://future-city.nl/smartstedenbouw/

The English version (52 pages) focuses on the design principles for smart urban design:
>> We want a sustainable and democratic city;
>> In it we design everything as a democratic smart network;
>> We design flexibility;
>> We design meaningfully.
These are explained in detail. In addition, the Model Bylaw Smart City Applications in the Public Space is included in the book.

You can download the book for free on: https://future-city.nl/smarturbanplanning/

For more background information about the book, please see https://future-city.nl/smarturbanplanning/ And feel free to contact us if you like to know more about it and the follow-up projects.

Slimmere plannen voor de stad beginnen met beter begrijpen hoe de stad beweegt.

De toenemende digitalisering en technologisering hebben grote impact op de stad. Net als de klimaatadaptatie, de woningmarkt en de energietransitie. Maar de data die in de netwerksamenleving wordt gedeeld stelt ons in staat de opgaven aan te pakken en samen te werken aan een betere stad. De mechanismen daarvoor vinden we in Digital Twins, in de vorm van een 3D stadsmodel, datavisualisaties en geografische analyses.

Met het veranderen van de steden, verandert ook de stedenbouw. Flexibiliteit, transparantie, verbondenheid en betekenis staan voorop en data maakt dat mogelijk. Geografische data-analyse maakt patronen en verbanden zichtbaar, geeft inzicht hoe de stad beweegt. Daarmee kunnen ontwikkelingen in de gewenste richting worden (bij)gestuurd.

Dit kaartverhaal laat zien hoe dat werkt.

🤔 Is data really the new oil? Do you need big data to tackle an urban challenge? Are you sure?
Cities increasingly realise that defining a data strategy is a journey full of pitfalls and challenges.

In partnership with Green IT Amsterdam (NL), Sustainability For London (UK), Green IT Belgium (BE), Green IT SIG (CH) and FISMA (FI), Alliance Green IT (FR) launched the survey for the 3rd edition of the Green IT Barometer.

This survey aims to assess the number of computers and office equipment present in companies and more generally the maturity of companies in the use of eco-responsible digital services.

This is the third edition of this survey called Green IT Barometer.

The first two editions, 2015 and 2017, have been the subject of two publications: http://alliancegreenit.org/publications (in French only)

Answering this survey will allow you to
- Know the best practices, thanks to the game of questions
- Measure your level of maturity
- Compare your results

From October 1st, 2019 to January 31st, 2020, all companies can answer in an entirely anonymous way the online questionnaire on:

>> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/greenitbarometer2019 > In April 2020, the results will be published, in a strictly anonymous way.

Dit jaar onderzoekt de Future City Foundation met 26 partners hoe we de smart city moeten ontwerpen. We denken dat de stedenbouw en de producten die daaruit voortkomen radicaal veranderen. Net zoals dat gebeurde met andere bedrijfstakken. We willen begrijpen hoe dat gebeurt, welke kansen dat oplevert en welke risico’s er aan kleven.

De resultaten van het project presenteren we in een boek – genaamd ‘Een slimme stad, zo doe je dat – Verbonden, flexibel en betekenisvol; maak de echte future city’. U kunt het boek (met ruim 200 pagina’s) aanvragen via het aanvraagformulier. Digitaal lezen is gratis, voor een gedrukte versie vragen we €29,-.

Bestel het boek via https://future-city.nl/bestel-het-boek-een-slimme-stad-zo-doe-je-dat/

Have you ever thought about your city as a computer, and about institutions and administration as an OS operating system for it? This metaphor is becoming more and more relevant to reality. Telephones are turning into smartphones and cities into smart cities.

The new system for cities is being downloaded ...
Read full article: http://smartcitiespolska.org/en/new-operating-system-for-smart-cities/

According to statistics, you use a smartphone to read this page. Do you know what is the most important and most valuable component of it besides the camera? Of course its operating system. This single element can increase the power and safety of the device.

If it works inefficiently, you risk losing data, slowing down performance, and quickly draining of the battery. Current city's operating systems have many disadvantages. We know this feeling of system malfunction well.

If operating system performs its function in the background, we can experience games and multimedia on the screen and use our software necessary for a business. The same rule applies to cities and it's "operating systems".

Read more:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/operating-system-city-mateusz-jarosiewicz/

Seven Dutch cities are fighting against a central government proposal that would give free rein to telco providers over the installation of 5G antennas.

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Groningen, and Almere, backed by the Dutch Association of Cities, say that the proposed bill would force them to provide telcos with full access to public assets.

We’re thrilled to have Royal Haskoning RHDV as a signatory of the Tada (https://tada.city/) movement in #Amsterdam.

"We know that the promise of using data can be huge – and this ties in closely in our collaboration with City of Amsterdam to optimise peopleflows in the city centre," says Frank Legter (Director Business Unit Transport & Planning Europe) "But we must ensure that we collect data correctly and enable people to stay in control of their data so that we create responsible digital cities."