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Jennifer Kammerer, Student , posted

Interview - Smart City Amsterdam

Hello Everyone,
my name is Jennifer Kammerer and I'm writing my bachelor thesis about smart cities at the moment. I really like the strategies of the smart city amsterdam and would like to interview the smart city team for some more questions and opinions. The Topic of my thesis is: Wie smart sollten Bürogebäude sein? Immobilienwrtschaftliche Analyse von Smart City Konzepten auf die Entwicklung von Büroimmobilien. (How smart should an office building be? A analysis of smart city concepts on the development of office buildings from a real estate business point of view). I would really appreciate if I get the chance to get an interview. I would like so send the questions written and you can answer them also as a team or in the community. You can of course also use the interview material from the thesis!
I would be very thankful for a feedback! Dank u wel!

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Jan Pieter Mulder, Pre-master Student Human Geography , posted

Definition of Smart City

Hello everybody! My name is Pieter and I'm writing a bachelor thesis about finding 'the best' or 'most suitable' definition for the Smart City concept in Amsterdam. I study Human Geography at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Smart City is in my opinion a broad, interpretative concept and there is not a single definition suitable for every system. I am very curious about your experience and view on the concept.

My question is: How would you describe the concept of Smart City for the city of Amsterdam? And for initiators (initiatiefnemers) of projects: what is your experience with participating in-, or setting up a smart city project in Amsterdam?

You would help me a lot and maybe we could start a discussion!
Thank you in advance for reading this request and I would like to hear from you.

Kind regards, Pieter Mulder

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Mirko van Vliet, strategy at Amsterdam Economic Board, posted

How messages from public data can be delivered through design & art: example from NYC

Frequently I'm looking for open data about cities in the Netherlands and Europe. Often it requires me to dig deep, struggle and look for patterns in somewhat abstract and elusive datasets, which are hard to grasp.

Yet in the coming decades, the amount of public data will increase enormously and I believe we are now only scratching the surface of the powerful insights that remain covered. Design & Art expands the mind and can bring data alive. That's why I enjoyed this article about a newly installed art exhibit created in honor of NYC’s Open Data Week with new, interesting ways of representing data. I hope it may inspire you as well.

Perhaps a good source of inspiration for creating this in the city of Amsterdam and thinking about Smart City?

https://www.enigma.com/blog/data-through-design-exhibit-a-tactile-take-on-open-data

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"City Brain can help solve urban issues in Amsterdam"

In a "city brain" government, businesses, and citizens bring together data, for example on traffic flows, garbage pick up and activities in the neighbourhood. This will give better insights in the issues in the city and possible solutions. Professor Nanda Piersma, professor of Urban Analytics at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica calls for a City Brain as a public service. She held her public lecture on 17th of April 2018.

Further tekst in Dutch.

Steden verzamelen steeds meer data, bijvoorbeeld over het groeiend gebruik van elektrische laadpalen, slimme vuilophaalsystemen en goede verkeersdoorstroming. De stad Amsterdam loopt in Nederland voorop in het verzamelen en publiceren van dergelijke ‘city data’. Datagedreven dienstverlening kan de stad leefbaarder maken, kosten besparen en verspilling verminderen. Voorwaarde is wel dat zo’n City Brain ook veilig, transparant en democratisch is. Dr. Nanda Piersma is als bijzonder lector Big Data in de stad verbonden aan de HvA (de faculteit Techniek en de faculteit Digitale Media en Creatieve Industrie) en het Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI). Zij pleit voor de ontwikkeling van een City Brain als openbare dienst, net als bijvoorbeeld voor water en elektriciteit.

Verantwoordelijke data science

Nanda Piersma: “Amsterdam heeft de ambitie om te groeien en staat daarom voor grote uitdagingen op het gebied van dienstverlening, mobiliteit, energiebehoefte, bestuurs- en samenwerkingsvormen en leefbaarheid. Door ICT en de beschikbaarheid van grote hoeveelheden informatie, Big Data, kunnen we veel problemen in de stad beter inzichtelijk maken en nieuwe oplossingen bedenken. In steden als Parijs, Singapore en Macau is de ontwikkeling van City Brains al een stap verder dan bij ons, bijvoorbeeld op het gebied van verkeersdoorstroming, parkeren, veiligheid en crowd control. Wat we daarvan kunnen leren is dat het essentieel is om de privacy van data te waarborgen. Privacy is een randvoorwaarde om mensen datagedreven oplossingen en intelligente systemen te laten vertrouwen. Ook moeten alle inwoners ervan kunnen profiteren en er invloed op kunnen uitoefenen. We hebben daarom een ‘verantwoordelijke’ data science nodig, met begrijpelijke, transparante en veilige datamodellen.”

Inclusieve datapraktijken

“Steden functioneren beter als ‘urban computing’ een openbare dienst wordt, net als voorzieningen voor water, elektriciteit en dergelijke”, stelt Piersma. “Een city brain is een data-analyse systeem, bedoeld om city services te verbeteren. De data zijn afkomstig uit verschillende bronnen en van verschillende eigenaren. Zo brengt het Citizens Data Lab van de HvA bewonersinitiatieven bij elkaar in het kader van empowerment. De gemeente Amsterdam heeft daarvoor veel open data beschikbaar gesteld. Bewonersinitiatieven als VoorElkaarInDeBuurt, JeKuntMeer, AtlasVanDeWijk en Buuv kunnen deel gaan uitmaken van het City Brain. Ook staat de ontwikkeling van een Amsterdam Data Exchange (AMDEX) op ons verlanglijstje. Dat moet een veilige digitale marktplaats worden voor bedrijven, organisaties en overheden, waar data kunnen worden samengebracht voor een specifiek doel. Bedrijven kunnen door het samenbrengen van databronnen bijvoorbeeld betere onderhoudsvoorspellingen doen voor vliegtuigen, doordat ze niet alleen over de eigen data beschikken, maar ook over die van collega-vliegmaatschappijen.”

Big Data-station

De komende jaren werkt het team van het lectoraat Big Data in de stad van de HvA en het CWI samen met de stad aan het City Brain Amsterdam. “Maar de ontwikkelingen in de data science gaan zo razendsnel dat je dit vak niet op de traditionele manier kunt inbedden in het onderwijs”, zegt Piersma. “Want tegen de tijd dat je je curriculum hebt aangepast is de nieuw ontwikkelde kennis allang weer achterhaald. Daarom gaan we een Big Data-station opzetten. Daarin werken studenten, onderzoekers en docenten samen met overheden en bedrijven aan de verdere ontwikkeling datagedreven services voor de stad.” Op 12 april werd bekend dat Nanda Piersma is benoemd tot Comenius Senior Fellow, een onderwijsinnovatieprogramma van het Nationaal Regieorgaan Onderwijsonderzoek (NRO). Het bedrag van 100.000 euro gaat ze besteden aan de ontwikkeling van het Big Data-station.

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How to reuse your waste! Event about the results of research project Re-Organise

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Wil je weten wat je met je organische reststromen kunt doen om deze waardevol te maken? Of ben je benieuwd hoe je gft of groenafval van jezelf of van anderen kunt gebruiken in je eigen organisatie?
Kom dan naar het eindevenement in het kader van het tweejarig onderzoek Re-Organise. Dit evenement is gericht op professionals, beleidsmakers, onderzoekers en onderwijs in de stadslandbouw, afvalverwerking, horeca en groensector. Moderator Vera Dalm (Milieu Centraal / VVM) neemt ons mee vanuit de circulaire principes naar de stadslandbouw tot aan de praktische toepassingen voor organisch afval.

Wanneer: 18 april
Tijd: 14.00 tot 17.30 uur
Waar: Hogeschool van Amsterdam,
Weesperzijde 190, Amsterdam

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Inaugural lecture Nanda Piersma - Big Data and Smart Cities

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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.

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Workshop Sharing Economy Platforms in Resilient Neighborhoods

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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

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Igneta Skliaustytė, posted

Startup Weekend Future Cities Amsterdam 2018

Startup Weekend is a global initiative where professionals and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups.
This year Startup Weekend focuses on Future Cities - finding solutions for urban issues. Teams will present their smart solutions and solve cases provided by governments. In the meantime, governments will have a chance to 'adopt' proposed ideas.
We want to build partnerships with Smart City Amsterdam & receive support for the event.

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Organising supply via a hub: lessons learned form University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Science

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.

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Suzanne Ketelaar, Assistent Projectmanager at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, posted

Research into wishes and needs of the customer in the field of SmartHome

For my graduation assignment at PostNL I do research into the wishes and needs of the consumer in the field of SmartHome and then mainly focused on the installation of this. It is important for me to know what your wishes and needs are! The survey takes up to 6 minutes. (Please note that the survey is now only available in Dutch. If you are only English-speaking and would like to participate in the study, I am of course willing to translate the survey into English. )

Click on the link to go to the survey: https://hva.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08swaKTe6orvMvH.

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Erik Bibo, CEO , posted

Big Data

My name is Erik Bibo, co-owner of In2Content. For a webinar we are looking for a Amsterdam based company/store that is already using Big Data. We want to make a short video of that company/store.

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Meet our researchers: weekly update

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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

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Anonymous posted

Smartcity Hackathon in Amsterdam

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The Smart City hackathon 2018 in Amsterdam will bring entrepreneurs and select university students to discuss the intersection of digital technology and urbanization!

The aim of the hackathon is to bring together a diverse range of perspectives, from academics to entrepreneurship, and ignite the flow of ideas between different members of society.

Please note: This hackathon is to focus on building a business model. Participants will be given 8 hours to develop a business model for a product that solves a topic in one of four tracks: energy efficiency, waste management, air quality, and transportation. Two specific challenges for each track will be released closer to the hackathon dates.

Save the date 23rd and 24th March and join us this year to find solutions only with business model, to common problems cities faces and to ignite the flow of ideas between different members of society!

Registration for Entrepreneurs & Professionals: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNxj2rPT70B-faxcuYjSbQDDvo6_zOVQrlDVUMEjIeeVMgSg/viewform?usp=send_form

Registration for University students: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMZuDD_akO1OjvmbZbICxFdJWbNfgZcXIjsoXPjDY1eE7QYw/viewform

For more information : http://www.smartcitychallenge.net/

Event from Mar 23rd to Mar 24th
Anonymous posted

Smart City 2020- Workshop

I am looking for partners to run a workshop related to "Smart City Planning", initially in the city of Lima-Peru and Mexico City. However if someone is interested in launching the workshop somewhere else I am ready for the challenge.

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We successfully matched smart city researchers and professionals at our smart city academy event

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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.

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We are looking for Smart City issues and research questions!

Our ambition is to do further research on Smart City projects and their ecosystem. Therefore, we are curious about your smart city issues and questions! Are you a company, foundation, government or startup with a challenge in health, mobility, energy or other smart city issues? Are you curious about the possibilities of big data, struggling to scale-up, wondering how to create effective partnerships, trying to make a business case for you smart city project?
Put your research question into the spotlight at our Smart City Academy event on the 16th of january and win a research voucher. This voucher gives you access to a researcher that will explore your issue for a week. We will try to formulate some first answers to your research question and explore further steps for research together with public or private companies.

If you're interested in pitching on this event, or want some further information, please contact smartcityacademy@hva.nl

For more information about the event, click here https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/events/elevate-smart-city-practice-ih01ygsv

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Mirko van Vliet, strategy at Amsterdam Economic Board, posted

Interesting read on Dutch smart cities by the Rathenau institute

(Dutch publication only, unfortunately)

The research focusses on the smart city activities of the largest municipalities in the Netherlands. It is a series of three articles including: What do Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht en Eindhoven (G5) do with data and smart technology? What are the consequences for public values, such as privacy, online security and autonomy? And how do municipalities cope with these values in their projects?

1. Cities driven by data
2. Are smart city practices putting pressure on public interests?
3. How do municipalities protect the public values in the smart city?

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Iskander Smit, INFO at INFO, posted

ThingsCon Amsterdam 2017

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ThingsCon is Europe’s leading conference about the future of hardware, connected devices and Internet of Things (IoT). We aim to foster the creation of human-centric & responsible IoT.

This year we are organising the 4th Dutch edition of the conference on November 30th & December 1st 2017, at the Volkshotel. We value ThingsCon as a platform for the community of designers and makers and, even more than before, we like to offer the chance to apply for a talk or session. Just like the 2016 edition of the conference, we will focus on the right mix between inspiration and in-depth sessions.

This year we have almost 30 sessions and 10 keynote speakers. Several of the sessions specifically address the topics of the future of smart cities, the role of citizens and things as citizens.

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Elevate Smart City Practice

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Meet & Match at Smart City Academy

The strength of smart city research:
Are you a company, foundation, government or startup with a challenge in health, mobility, energy or other smart city issues? Are you curious about the possibilities of big data, struggling to scale-up, wondering how to create effective partnerships, trying to make a business case for you smart city project? Curious how to elevate your smart city practice?
Find out what research can mean for your smart city project or initiative at our Meet and Match event! Discover our tools, knowledge, methodologies and fields of expertise. Meet smart city professionals & researchers. Share your questions and find research partners. We are curious about your smart city issues!

Pitch & Win
Bring your smart city research question into the spotlight and win a research voucher. This voucher gives you access to a researcher that will explore your issue for a week. We will try to formulate some first answers to your research question and explore further steps for research together with public or private companies. Contact smartcityacademy@hva.nl for more information.

Join us!
January 16th, 1 – 5.30 PM. Hogeschool van Amsterdam, room named “FLOOR”, second floor of the Wibauthuis (WBH 02A30).
Open for everyone!

Program
13.00 – Walk in
13.30 – Welcome by Robert van den Hoed, lector Energy and Innovation.
13.45 - Key note by Mark Deakin: Professor of Built Environment at the Edinburgh Napier University, shows his ground breaking research about smart and sustainable urban transformation in London.
14.00 - Pitches from the Smart City Academy about our research topics, f.e.: upscaling, user involvement, data, collaborative entrepreneurship, partnerships and business models, public values
14:45 - Meet and match the researchers at round tables
15:15 - Break
15:30 – Climb on the soap box and pitch your Smart City research question. We use our collaborative knowledge for some first answers.
16.30 – Closure and drinks

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Zulfikar Dinar Wahidayat Putra, University Student , posted

looking for: Interviewee in the field of Environmental Aspect and Smart City

I am Zulfikar a master student of Urban Environmental Management in Wageningen University and Research.
Currently, I am conducting a thesis research with the title "The Interaction between Non-Government-based Smart City Projects and Government-based Environmental Management: The Case of Amsterdam". ​Basically, the research aims to investigate three elements, namely the smart city projects initiated by non-governmental parties, environmental management conducted by governmental parties, and their interaction with each other.​

Regarding that, I would like to talk to people who have knowledge about their smart city project and environmental aspects in Amsterdam. I need at least 2 persons from Amsterdam Smart City Platform, knowledge institutions, and/or companies.

The result of this research will benefit the Amsterdam Smart City platform and Amsterdam Municipality to understand about the linkage between smart city projects and environmental management of Amsterdam.

If you are the one, please let me know by contacting me via email zulfikar.dinar@gmail.com
Thank you for your help and attention.

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