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Data Science for Smart Cities

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Responsible Data Science for Smart Cities; Can cities collect massive amounts of data on its residents and their daily practices, and yet remain safe, transparent and democratic? Today, cities are collecting more and more data, and the city of Amsterdam is at the forefront of publishing such "city data” and launching data driven services to improve its liveability. For example, data on the increasing use of electric charging points, smart waste collection systems, and good traffic flow can all be used to reduce costs and minimise waste. In this master class we provide an overview to the way Big Data is being used to make challenges in the city of Amsterdam more transparent and to develop new solutions. The master class is based on the work of Nanda Piersma, special lecturer in Big Data in the city at the HvA (the Faculty of Technology and the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industry).

Responsible Data Science for Smart Cities

Can cities collect massive amounts of data on its residents and their daily practices, and yet remain safe, transparent and democratic? Today, cities are collecting more and more data, and the city of Amsterdam is at the forefront of publishing such "city data” and launching data driven services to improve its liveability. For example, data on the increasing use of electric charging points, smart waste collection systems, and good traffic flow can all be used to reduce costs and minimise waste.

In this masterclass we provide an overview to the way Big Data is being used to make challenges in the city of Amsterdam more transparent and to develop new solutions. The masterclass is based on the work of Nanda Piersma, special lecturer in Big Data in the city at the HvA (the Faculty of Technology and the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industry).

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Ngrane Academy, posted

Designing a digital platform in 7 days

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Ngrane shows you how to design a business model for a digital platform and a clickable prototype in 7 days

What you'll learn:

1. the value proposition and strategic purpose of the digital platform;
2. the business model and pricing strategy for realizing ecosystem growth;
3. design of the user interface and user experience in line with the platform business model.

Join our creative director David van Delden and our digital strategists Nicolai van Gorp and dr. Paul de Bijl, who will tell you all about Ngrane’s pragmatic approach, rooted in our executive MBA teaching on digital business models. Our approach allows you to make a solid investment decision and then move on to the IT-implementation.

Program

17.30: Walk in & Bites
18.00: Introduction
18.10: How to design a business model for a digital platform and a clickable prototype in 7 days (Nicolai van Gorp & Paul de Bijl)
18:55: Design sprint (David van Delden)
19:25: Q&A
19:45: Drinks
20:00: End

Registration is required, with a maximum of 30 participants for this interactive event.

Safe your seat here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-a-digital-platform-in-7-days-tickets-84993498843

This is a free event!

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Jongky Tetehuka, posted

How digital platforms transform markets and value chains.

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Need insight into the operation of business models of digital platforms, and what they can mean for your company? Come to our upcoming breakfast session!

Digital strategists Nicolai van Gorp and Dr. Paul de Bijl from Ngrane will update you and answer questions during this interactive, small-scale breakfast sessions. How do digital platforms transform markets and value chains? How can existing players deploy a platform themselves and strengthen their position? We will discuss questions like these within your business context, and you will have the opportunity to ask questions directly as well.

Registration is required, a maximum of 10 participants for this breakfast session. (including free breakfast!)

This is a free event!

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Arvin Vishnudatt, Bedrijfskunde student at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, posted

GEZOCHT: afstudeerstage vanaf februari 2020

Beste community,

Mijn naam is Arvin Vishnudatt. Momenteel ben ik op zoek naar een afstudeerstage.

Ik studeer Bedrijfskunde MER aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Om mijn laatste jaar van de opleiding af te ronden, zal ik vanaf februari 2020 afstuderen. Ik zal twintig weken lang (3 februari tot en met 19 juni 2020) een onderzoek uitvoeren voor de organisatie. Dit in de richting van procesoptimalisatie of organisatiekunde, aangezien hier mijn interesse ligt en mijn ervaring zit.

Huidig ben ik namelijk bezig met een project voor de HvA/UvA om het proces van koffiebekers circulair te maken. Hiermee ben ik erg ingesteld op duurzaamheid en circulariteit. Dit valt binnen de sector Smart City's. Verder heb ik ervaring met het samenwerken met en samenbrengen van stakeholders om aan het gezamenlijke doel te werken.

Tijdens het afstuderen zal ik een rapport opstellen dat bestaat uit opgebouwd onderzoek. Het doel van dit rapport is om een advies te schrijven dat het probleem of kwestie aan kan pakken binnen de organisatie/afdeling.

Vanuit de Hogeschool van Amsterdam heb ik een aantal eisen, waaraan het bedrijf dient te voldoen:
- De organisatie bestaat minimaal 2 jaar en heeft minimaal 20 werknemers in dienst.
- De begeleider vanuit de organisatie heeft minimaal HBO-niveau. En is zelf minimaal twee jaar werkzaam binnen de organisatie.
- Je kunt vier dagen per week aan je onderzoek besteden en bent vrijgesteld van meewerken (meewerken is mogelijk in overleg met de studiebegeleider).
- Je hebt dagelijks contact met je collega's, neemt deel aan overleggen en eventueel aan informele activiteiten op het werk.
- Je hebt een werkplek met computer.

Verder is mijn CV te vinden in de bijlage.

Mocht u een interessante afstudeeropdracht hebben voor mij, dan hoor ik graag van u.

Ik ben te bereiken op: Arvin.Vishnudatt@hva.nl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvin-vishnudatt-358805140

Met vriendelijke groet,

Arvin Vishnudatt

Hogeschool van Amsterdam

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Anonymous posted

Gezocht: Internship digital security bij Free Press Unlimited

Free Press Unlimited is offering a five to six month internship (32 hours a week) starting in January 2020. We're looking for a tech-savvy student or recent graduate with a relevant educational background and affinity with media development.

You will support several media projects implemented together with international partners. You will join the Gender, Safety & Accountability team in realising projects with global coverage in the field of digital safety and investigative journalism.

Are you drawn to whistleblowing platforms for media, online digital security courses for journalists? Do you feel confident about your knowledge of encryption, privacy, open source software and safe communication options? Then this internship is for you!

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Mateusz Jarosiewicz, Founder at Smart Cities Polska, posted

New issue of the CITY:ONE is OUT!

Learn how to build a #smartregion or a #smartvillage! Check what David Bárta chose from the best examples and concepts of smart cities in Europe

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Varsha Sethuraman, Student , posted

Internship opportunities

I am a second year climate study master student actively looking for internship opportunities in the field of climate adaptation and governance in creating resilient cities. I specialise in climate, society and economics. I have a background in climate governance and international environmental policy & politics.
If someone could help with some leads, would be nice

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Phoebe Kamea, posted

Architects working on Smart City projects.

Hello. I'm Phoebe and I'm an architecture student from Greece. I'm doing my thesis on "The contribution of architects in smart cities" and I want to contact with architects working on Smart City projects.

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Mirjam Endendijk, Marketing & Communicatie Manager at Luminext, posted

How city data is transforming the way we live

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How city data is transforming the way we live

8 cities show how smart data is changing the way we live. From Las Vegas to Copenhagen, smart technology is used everywhere for an efficient, safe and pleasant living environment. How exactly does smart data management work and what advantages do new technologies have for companies and the residents of the city?

1. Las Vegas: live data

Bold, brash and operating 24-hours a day, Las Vegas is a city like no other, attracting millions of visitors a year to its bustling casinos. But as well as hosting 43 million tourists each year, the city is home to almost 650,000 residents who need services including public safety, transportation and utilities. City officials recently turned to smart city data management to ease the pressure.

They used Hitachi’s Smart Spaces and Video Intelligence solution, which is a combination of hardware and software that leverages intelligent video and other internet of things (IoT) data to provide a single view of activity, operations, and safety issues with intelligence for real-time data and analysis, deploying resources more efficiently.

For example, the city can produce heat maps of streets that can indicate if a pothole is likely to develop in a given location and take steps to fix the issue before it starts to damage vehicles. Elsewhere, rubbish collection routes have been reduced from ten hours to four, redeploying employees to help with other services.

2. Seoul: smart waste solutions

With almost ten million people living in Seoul, South Korea’s capital city, waste management has become an area of focus and, as one of the most high-tech cities in the world, it’s no surprise that big data and IoT has become part of the solution.

“Ecube Labs was founded in Seoul when the first smart city projects started to emerge in Korea,” explains Guillaume Weill, project director at Intralink. “The company’s focus is on four main products, which have now been installed in more than 150 locations in Seoul, from parks to department stores, leisure venues and tourist districts.”

These include solar-powered waste bins which compact rubbish, fill-level sensors monitoring the quantity of waste in each bin, a big data platform gathering the information from the bins and a platform that automatically refines manual collection routes based on machine-learning algorithms, bringing huge cost-savings and a cleaner city.

3. Amsterdam: 3D-printed smart bridge

With its network of canals, Amsterdam has more bridges than almost any other city in the world, around 1,800 in total. But what if smart city data management meant those bridges could talk to other infrastructure to optimise travel around the city? The MX3D bridge is the world’s first 3D-printed steel bridge designed by Joris Laarman Lab in collaboration with Arup and supported by Autodesk and other partners.

Dutch firm MX3D is using industrial six-axis robots, proprietary software and welding machines that deposit stainless steel from thin, molten wire to build the 40-foot-long smart pedestrian bridge spanning the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, one of the oldest canals in Amsterdam.

Equipped with sensors, the bridge streams data to the cloud where it is then processed and interpreted to visualise intelligence about bridge traffic, structural integrity, and the surrounding neighbourhood and environment. The bridge can send alerts when it needs maintenance and can even talk to roadways to time the lights better to reduce congestion at busy times.

"Innovative solutions ensure enormous cost savings plus a cleaner city"

4. San Francisco: smart cycles

One of the strategic goals of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is to prioritise transport that doesn’t involve a car. Part of its vision for a sustainable transportation system includes a safe network of bicycle-friendly streets so people of all ages and ability can feel confident travelling on two wheels.

The SFMTA uses automated counters to monitor key bicycle data, which it analyses annually to get an idea of cycle use in the city. Using the information provided by these smart monitors, the SFMTA added ten miles to the bikeway network and created thirty new intersections. Of those new miles, 5.5 received physical protection from passing traffic.

More than eight million bikes were counted at forty locations in 2018, but the data showed 63 per cent of the weekly ridership was occurring in just seventeen of the fifty-one reporting counters. This information enables the city to focus its improvement efforts where they are needed most.

5. Stratford, Ontario: perfect parking

Parking in cities is often frustrating and time consuming. But with the help of smart city data management, it can become a much simpler affair. Seeing the opportunity, the City of Stratford in Ontario, Canada, has invested in smart technology so visitors can spend less time trawling for a space and more time spending money in local businesses.

The city has installed 78 IoT sensors thatmerge information with global positioning system, or GPS, data and relay whether a parking spot is free or empty, with updates provided every half an hour to an Amazon Web Services MQTT Broker, which relays the update to the Information Builders WebFOCUS data analytics platform. WebFOCUS then creates easily read visualisations, which convey which spaces are free where, when the busiest parking periods are, and which are the preferred car parks, levels and spaces used by residents and visitors.

6. Edam-Volendam: smart lighting

With its authentic streets and charming fishing port, Edam-Volendam is a real tourist attraction. The municipality wanted to reduce the energy bill for public lighting and at the same time ensure a safe environment for visitors and residents. The smart lighting systems from Luminext in combination with LED luminaires from Lightronics and Lightwell provide the solution.

By illuminating only where it is needed and by dimming as soon as there is no traffic on the street, Edam-Volendam saves energy while ensuring a safe environment. With the smart lighting technology in the luminaires and the telemanagement system from Luminext, the public lighting network is controlled and managed remotely.

The smart lighting ensures that the amount of light is automatically adjusted to the need for light on the street. More light in dark alleys enhances the feeling of safety and dimming the street lighting in a residential area causes less light nuisance in the bedroom, which is good for a good night’s sleep. The smart lighting system automatically detects defective lamps, allowing repairs to be started quickly and to make the lighting function well as soon as possible. That also benefits street safety. The lighting installation and energy consumption are continuously monitored to be able to dim the lighting as efficiently as possible. As a result, the energy savings are optimal.

7. Copenhagen: energy saving

With dwindling global energy supplies and the environmental impact of certain types of energy, cities must look carefully at their use. It’s unsurprising then that energy use is a huge consideration when it comes to smart cities using big data.

Frederiksberg Forsyning, a publicly owned utility company in Copenhagen, aimed to create a smart energy supply solution that would optimise their supply network and create efficiency savings. One of the issues with doing this is the reliability of data, with utility companies often reliant on customers for monthly or yearly meter readings.

To tackle this, the company created a connectivity network across the municipality and then installed sensors in their pipelines to measure usage from the point of production to the substation and on to the end-customer. They went from getting infrequent customer readings to 700 data points a second, seeing savings on water loss and energy use.

8. Brussels: Smart transport tech

The Belgian capital city of Brussels relies on four metro train lines, seventeen tram lines and fifty bus lines to get its residents where they need to go. STIB–MIVB, the company that runs these services tracks 401 million journeys a year and 1,200 vehicles. To handle the stream of big data, it partnered with SAP and Cubis to access the analytics needed to improve customer service and run the system more efficiently.

As well as improving the experience of commuters and visitors, the partnership has enabled more proactive vehicle maintenance, greater transparency when it comes to use of public funds, the ability to cater for passengers with disabilities and reduced environmental impact.

“Cities are full of data that can help us better understand travel times, routes and crunch points on a network,” says Brian Duffy, SAP’s Europe, Middle East and Africa north regional president. “If used in the right way, data insights can help people get to where they are going faster, more efficiently and more reliably.”

Sources: Luminext & ‘Future Cities’; Special editen by publisher Raconteur, international distributed with The Times in june 2019.

More information at Luminext.eu or info@luminext.eu

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Contemporary Amsterdam and its challenges

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Introduction to the Amsterdam urban region and its major policy challenges. How has the city developed in the last decades and what are the major policy issues at the moment regarding economic, social and spatial development? How does the city government attempt to involve citizen knowledge in its development?

Introduction to the Amsterdam urban region and its major policy challenges. How has the city developed in the last decades and what are the major policy issues at the moment regarding economic, social and spatial development? How does the city government attempt to involve citizen knowledge in its development?

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Evaluating smart city projects: Lessons from Amsterdam

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This lecture is based on University of Applied Sciences research evaluating smart city projects with a focus on non-technological aspects, including forms of cooperation and partnerships, business models and scaling potential. The focus is on key lessons learned and factors for success for setting up and scaling multi-stakeholder smart city projects. Benchmark Amsterdam-based projects and learn the factors for success for developing, launching, and scaling up multi-stakeholder smart city projects.

This lecture is based on University of Applied Sciences research evaluating smart city projects with a focus on non-technological aspects, including forms of cooperation and partnerships, business models and scaling potential. The focus is on key lessons learned and factors for success for setting up and scaling multi-stakeholder smart city projects. Benchmark Amsterdam-based projects and learn the factors for success for developing, launching, and scaling up multi-stakeholder smart city projects.

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Amsterdam Urban Living Labs

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Policy innovation through collaboration between private, public and civic partners together with knowledge institutions is increasingly seen as the best way to address complex urban challenges. One way to this is through so called “Urban Living Labs” where residents, companies, governments, students and researchers collectively tackle metropolitan problems by immersing themselves in the solution as it is being developed. What are the benefits and pitfalls of these types of living labs? In this session we share the experience and lessons accumulated by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences with innovating through Urban Living Labs and provide specific examples and lessons learned from several projects in Amsterdam.

Policy innovation through collaboration between private, public and civic partners together with knowledge institutions is increasingly seen as the best way to address complex urban challenges. One way to this is through so called “Urban Living Labs” where residents, companies, governments, students and researchers collectively tackle metropolitan problems by immersing themselves in the solution as it is being developed. What are the benefits and pitfalls of these types of living labs? In this session we share the experience and lessons accumulated by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences with innovating through Urban Living Labs and provide specific examples and lessons learned from several projects in Amsterdam.

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Joris Kruse, Director , posted

Bouwen aan morgen

Er zijn maar weinig organisaties die de complexiteit van een overheidsorganisatie benaderen. Succesvol innoveren binnen een overheidsorganisatie is dan ook een utopie volgens sommigen. Het boek 'Bouwen aan morgen' van Dany Robberecht en Stijn Smet doet een dappere poging om te komen tot een raamwerk voor innoveren binnen overheidsorganisaties. Het boek dat is gebaseerd op het RICE-model van Verhaert, gaat over diensteninnovaties, nieuwe bedrijfsmodellen, productinnovaties en de daar bijhorende procesinnovaties. 'Bouwen aan morgen' is tot stand gekomen in een samenwerking tussen het A&O fonds Gemeenten, gemeente Utrecht en Verhaert – Masters in Innovation en is gratis te downloaden via www.bouwenaanmorgen.org

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Smart City Academy, posted

Join our Smart City team at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

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Interesting vacancy in the field of Circularity and Smart City development.

Vacature: Onderzoeker Circulair Verpakken (0,4 FTE)

Als onderzoeker geef je een impuls aan het praktijkgericht onderzoek rondom circulair verpakken bij de HvA.

Wij bieden een interessante baan in een bruisende onderzoekomgeving. De HvA doet baanbrekend en innovatief onderzoek in samenwerking met vooraanstaande partners binnen dit werkveld en werkt aan de ontwikkeling van innovatieve, duurzaamheid bevorderende modellen, tools en kennis. Heb je een master in industrieel ontwerpen, of een andere discipline die aansluit bij het thema "Circulair Verpakken" en beschik je over meer dan 4 jaar ervaring als verpakkingsontwerper of verpakkingsdeskundige in het bedrijfsleven of als verpakkingsonderzoeker bij een kennisinstelling? Dan zijn wij op zoek naar jou!

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Results from a Smart City Asset Research commissioned by the European Investment Bank

Last year, a group of students from Sciences Po Paris conducted a research on Smart City Assets. The project was commissioned by the EIB Institute, a non-profit organisation from the EIB Group, operating as the European Union’s investment arm. The purpose of this survey was to help the EIB Group provide Smart City promoters with more targeted support from its lending and advising activities around the world. Here under are the results of the research.

With the goal to establish this recurring research as a reference for urban stakeholders, the project is pursued for the second time this year. For those who have participated in a Smart City project, we would greatly appreciate if you could answer this year’s survey (estimate: 12 minutes). You can find it at the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YZ8KJXG

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Catalin Vrabie, Lecturer PhD. , posted

International Governance Olympiad, fifth Edition, 2019

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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are happy to send to you the call for participation for the 5th edition of the International Governance Olympiad in Bucharest, Romania, spring 2019 - held under the auspices of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA). The contest challenges the participants (BA & MA students from all over the world) to write an essay on the topic of governance – they are asked to start with a research question and to develop a solution to the problem that it raises.

„The International Governance Olympiad" is proposing to stimulate and harness the imagination and creativity of the most talented students in the study areas of governance, social sciences, communication and so on, focusing on social innovation and governance reform thus creating the premises for a sustainable development of the society.

We are waiting for your registration!

Al the best,
Catalin Vrabie, PhD
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catalin_Vrabie

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Smart City Academy, posted

We published a guide for open collaborative business modelling

In a smart city, open co-creation of smart city solutions is key. Finding new ways of creating value and making a collaborative business model can be quite challenging. That's why we, Amsterdam Smart City and the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, did a research on value creating and developed a model for open collaborative business modelling. The publication helps you making a collaborative business model with more in depth insights in the process and theory behind it, but also supplies you with easy to apply tools and formats.

Find it here!

Publication and article in Dutch

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Sage Isabella, Post Doc at University of Twente, posted

Looking for volunteers

The BRIDE project is looking for participants for a study on understanding human interaction with “smart” infrastructure visa-a-vi machine learning.

The experiment will take place in Amsterdam February 2019. Participants will get to interact with the world’s first 3D printed footbridge.

If interested, please email Sage Cammers-Goodwin (s.i.cammers-goodwin@utwente.nl)

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Smart City Academy, posted

Entrepreneurship College – SDG edition: SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

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The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, together with Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) hosts Entrepreneurship College – SDG edition. This monthly series of lectures discusses the ins and outs of each Sustainable Development Goal from an academic point of view, and discusses how innovation and entrepreneurship can contribute to reaching the goals. We would like to invite you to our event next month, where Willem van Winden gives us an introduction to SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. How can we reach the 2030 agenda of the UN? He will demonstrate this with clear local and international cases before going in to the question: how does entrepreneurship and innovation contribute to these developments?
Learn more about the SDGs, innovative solutions and join us!

When? 10th of January from 17.30 till 19.00
Where? Mauritskade 64 (Café de Tropen)

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