#User involvement

City Alerts provides adequate information of relevant information (personal and non-personal) between emergency services during emergency incidents.

By the end of 2018, City Protocol ended. The common solutions and principles are still relevant. Therefore, you can still find these useful insights on this page.

Cities have become the key nodes of the global economy, acting as magnets for the new hyper-connected communities. They play a singular role as hubs of innovation and sources of universal flows of information—produced by people, things and the interactions between them. How can cities approach these challenges and adopt sound financial strategies to become more livable and self-suficient, with empowered citizens?

1) A collaboration and knowledge sharing framework for the development of a new science of cities.

2) Establishment of the basis for the evaluation and accreditation of standards and recommendation documents for city transformations.

3) A set of methods and tools for system-level data analysis and representation, and a city knowledge base into specific learnings.

4) A ‘city language’ and set of common images for describing the City Anatomy.

5) Building a repository of documents describing projects, policies and recommended practices which may be tested in cities working and learning together to tackle their common transformational challenges.

6) A network and/or platform for education and knowledge sharing among all members.

On our way to become a natural gas free city, many residential buildings in Amsterdam need to be retrofitted. In City-zen the most ambitious ones were granted subsidy.

City-zen was an international consortium, a program stimulating learning-by-doing in Grenoble and Amsterdam between March 2014 and November 2019. The results can be found in a booklet or in detailed reports. http://www.cityzen-smartcity.eu/home/reporting/deliverables/

Read our interviews with some of the individual home-owners:

• Koos Marinus, who renovated his single family rowhouse
• Frank Hylkema, who made his houseboat energy friendly
• Jan Pel, who now has a sustainable apartment
• Marjolein Cazemier, who together with other 9 families, transformed a former schoolbuilding into family homes.

Learn more about some of the larger projects:

• How to make post war buildingssustainable?
• VIDEO: Wath this video (in Dutch) about how social housing company Eigen Haard renovated 138 apartments in the post war Airey Buildings in Amsterdam Nieuw-West with the support of City-zen funding:

Have a look at the MURMUR2 Campaign in City-zen city Grenoble and the work of the social landlords over there.

Exploring how Beacons can be put to use to increase exercise in Amsterdam.

Lighting up bicycle paths with green energy

Since repairing is better than disposing

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Transformcity is the online platform for collaborative urban development, aimed at growing a sustainable and inclusive local community of co-owners. Transformcity is currently being implemented in two of Amsterdam’s largest transformation areas.

Transformcity won the second prize in the international Le Monde Smart Cities Innovation Awards 2016, category Citizen Engagement. The international high-profile jury was led by prof. Saskia Sassen.

Later that year we won the Call for Soultions in Barcelona World Smart City Event.

In 2017 we won Amsterdam's Startup in Residence programme.

In 2018 we won the Provada / Holland ConTech & PropTech Start-up Battle

Also check out our video:

<https://vimeo.com/166327782>

Watt for Watt uses a neighbourhood-level approach to improve the energy efficiency of houses. The campaign is also dedicated to making residents aware of how they use energy with the aim of keeping energy costs at an affordable level.

Partners

This project is a part of Living Lab Nieuw-west. The Living Labs put innovative technology to practice in a test environment.

Partner

The Kit measures the humidity, noise levels, temperature, CO, NO2 and lightintensity of the neighborhood

Links:
Waag.org
Blog
Noise map

Partners

Go2Zero is a serious role playing game for decision makers to experience the consequences of individual decisions and different strategies to ‘go to zero’ carbon emissions.

City-zen was an international consortium, a program stimulating learning-by-doing in Grenoble and Amsterdam between March 2014 and November 2019. The results can be found in a booklet or in detailed reports. http://www.cityzen-smartcity.eu/home/reporting/deliverables/

The Energy Atlas stimulates the use of renewable energy, as citizens will become more aware of their own energy usage and realise that there are gains to be made.

Partners

Citizens, offices and organizations within the metropolis Amsterdam live and work on clean energy

Partners

An initiative of 10 sports associations, the local city council and some entrepreneurs to build and maintain strong and sustainable sports grounds.

Under the umbrella of Smart Living in Gaasperdam businesses, residents and the municipality of Amsterdam joined forces to deliver products and servives that better meet resident needs. For example: The Pilot ‘Besmettelijke Buurtkracht 2.0 ’This is a method where residents inform each other about saving energy, waste management and the benefits of switching to renewable energy. Results so far: nearly 30 residents are so called ‘successfully infected’. Talking about sustainability is contagious! This means that they are willing to invest in projects concerning for sustainable living. Heatnetwork for the neighbourhood ‘Alliander Duurzame Gebiedsontwikkeling’ is exploring together with homeowners of the Maldenhof in Gaasperdam the posibilities of setting up a heatnetwork for the Maldenhof neighbourhood.

Under the umbrella of Smart Living in Gaasperdam businesses, residents and the municipality of Amsterdam joined forces to deliver products and servives that better meet resident needs.

For example:

The Pilot ‘Besmettelijke Buurtkracht 2.0

’This is a method where residents inform each other about saving energy, waste management and the benefits of switching to renewable energy.

Results so far: nearly 30 residents are so called ‘successfully infected’. Talking about sustainability is contagious! This means that they are willing to invest in projects concerning for sustainable living.

Heatnetwork for the neighbourhood

‘Alliander Duurzame Gebiedsontwikkeling’ is exploring together with homeowners of the Maldenhof in Gaasperdam the posibilities of setting up a heatnetwork for the Maldenhof neighbourhood.

Partners

480 solar panels on the roof of the IJburg College; the largest cooperatively organised solar roof in Amsterdam.

Partners

A living lab right in the centre of Amsterdam will test sustainable initiatives

A method to facilitate citizens to screen, assess, and actively participate in the decisions on public policy-making and government expenditure.

Buiksloterham, on the northern bank of the IJ waterway, once the site of Amsterdam’s most polluting industries, is being transformed into a sustainable area to live and work.

The living lab is described in the following report.

Full report (english)

Full report (dutch)

Want to know more about the status of Circular Buiksloterham after 5 years of innovation and pioneering?

Join us during the Event 'Circulair Buiksloterham, 5 jaar later' on the 26th of March in Pakhuis de Zwijger. The event will be in Dutch. Check <https://dezwijger.nl/programma/circulair-buiksloterham-5-jaar-later>

JINC gives young people the opportunity to experience what the labour market has to offer and what skills one needs for specific jobs.

<http://www.rtlz.nl/tv/laatste-videos/bolcom-leiden-kinderspel>