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Interesting read (Dutch only) on using big data to help cities overcome some of there challenges or be more efficient.
This is one of the topics of the new established Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies. This programme equips mayors and their senior leaders with cutting-edge tools and techniques to more effectively tackle pressing management challenges faced in their cities. Through a $32 million initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University are collaborating to provide hundreds of city leaders customized executive education focused on leadership and innovation in governance.

This month we're talking waste, waste prevention, recycling and more!

Amsterdam Innovation Arena hosts this Amazing Monday every first Monday of the month @ the Amsterdam ArenA. Every month the latest innovative developments will be presented!

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Hello,

My name is Teska and I am currently writing my masterthesis about civic engagement in the smart city developments. As a case I am analyzing this platform and look how different stakeholders position civic engagement, since the citizen is presented as an important link between the different stakeholders. I am looking for people that are also interested in the role of citizens within the smart city developments. Do you have a company or project that is focused on citizens or do you mainly follow the theme Citizens & Living on this platform?

Send me a direct message or email to teskadrosten@gmail.com. It will be valuable to talk with some people about this subject next to my own analysis.

Thank you in advance!

Best,

Teska Drosten

VeiligheidNL, Nutricia, Philips, ONVZ and PostNL work together in a project that aims to help elderly remain living at home independently. Specifically, we want to prevent them from falling. In 2016, every five minutes a 65 + person ended up in the emergency room after a fall and every day nine people decease because of a fall. Therefore, we bundle our forces and offer a solution with project TOM, ‘Thuis Onbezorgd Mobiel’ (Carefree Mobility at Home); a package of proven interventions to support the elderly.

Doing what works
Many elderly value their freedom and would like to remain living at home independently. But not everyone has relatives who can give informal care and the offer of support programs is fragmented. With project TOM, we offer a complete support package with measures that are proven to be effective. There will also be cooperation with trusted local professionals, such as the personal physiotherapist and dietitian.
The participants will not only follow a mobility program, but will also get personal dietary advice and a motion monitor, a device that tracks and analyzes movements. These interventions ensure that preventive measures can be taken if necessary. To reduce the risk of falling, the participants work twice a week on muscle strength, balance and coordination with a physical therapist and receive additional information. This intervention, by VeiligheidNL, is called ‘InBalans’ (in balance). Independent research shows that participants who follow this program are 61% less likely to fall.
Diet is also important when it comes to fall prevention. Especially for vulnerable elderly, it’s challenging to take in all the necessary nutrients on a daily basis, which worsens their overall condition. Therefore, all participants are screened for malnutrition and there’s a personal dietary advice for those who need it.

Personal attention
Personal attention is a key element in project TOM. Because many elderly who live at home independently feel lonely or can use some extra help, there are trained elderly advisors who will visit them and ONVZ Care Consultants of who will regularly call the elderly to hear how they are doing. They offer individual care and participants can contact them if they have any questions.
There’s also a new role for the mailman of PostNL. Within Project TOM, our mailman has contact with the senior and offers support in using the motion monitor.

Start project
Best is the first region where project TOM starts with a pilot. In the course of 2017, spread over The Netherlands, project TOM will start in three other test regions. Check out www.projecttom.nl for more information.
* Source: fact sheet: 65 years and older Fall, October, 2016 * VeiligheidNL
** source: www.stuurgroepondervoeding.nl
* * * source: Effects of exercise programs of falls and mobility in frail and pre-frail older adults: a multicenter randomized controlled trial, Faber 2006

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Faciliteer jij bedrijven in de internationalisering van hun smart city en health oplossingen? Ben je een verbinder en sta je stevig in je schoenen? De Amsterdam Economic Board en Amsterdam Trade zijn op zoek naar een Coördinator Internationalisering voor de communities Amsterdam Smart City & Amsterdam Health voor 32-40 uur per week.

Faciliteer jij bedrijven in de internationalisering van hun smart city en health oplossingen? Ben je een verbinder en sta je stevig in je schoenen? De Amsterdam Economic Board en Amsterdam Trade zijn op zoek naar een Coördinator Internationalisering voor de communities Amsterdam Smart City & Amsterdam Health voor 32-40 uur per week.

Amsterdam Economic Board

De Board heeft als ambitie om in 2025 tot de top 3 van Europese innovatieve regio’s te behoren. Wij richten ons daarbij op samenwerking, innovatie en groei en daarbij wordt ingezet op 5 grootstedelijke uitdagingen: Gezondheid, Mobiliteit, Circulaire Economie, Digitale Connectiviteit en Talent voor de Toekomst. Een van de belangrijkste doelstellingen van de Amsterdam Economic Board is het verbinden van mensen en organisaties. Dit doen we op verschillende uitdagingen middels verschillende programma’s, waaronder het innovatieprogramma Amsterdam Smart City.

Amsterdam Trade

Amsterdam Trade heeft als missie de internationalisering van het regionale MKB te bevorderen en te versnellen, daarmee wil Amsterdam Trade een bijdrage leveren aan de economische ontwikkeling in de Metropoolregio Amsterdam en zet Amsterdam Trade in op sectoren waar beweging is: Smart City, E-Healthe, Agri&Food en Fashion en Dutch Design.

Online Communities

De Amsterdam Economic Board, Amsterdam Smart City en Amsterdam Trade hebben hun krachten gebundeld om samen het internationaliseringsvraagstuk op te pakken. Er is vanuit een groot aantal bedrijven in de Metropoolregio Amsterdam behoefte om hun business op te schalen naar het buitenland. Daarvoor hebben wij afgelopen zomer twee communities gelanceerd waar hét netwerk rondom innovatie op het gebied van smart cities en health bijeenkomt. www.amsterdamsmartcity.com en www.amsterdamhealth.nl

Beide communities worden druk bezocht door internationale partijen; bedrijven, overheden en startups. Als Coördinator Internationalisering faciliteer je het MKB dat internationaal wil ondernemen. Hierbij ben je dé sparringpartner voor bedrijven die internationaal willen groeien, en signaaleer je kansen voor het MKB. Je kunt op verschillende niveaus schakelen en je bent goed in staat om van strategie naar uitvoering door te schakelen.

Functieomschrijving

• Wensen en behoeften van MKB-ers op internationalisering vertalen naar activiteiten voor de community, zowel online als offline

• Organiseren van activiteiten (online en offline); activiteiten in de MRA maar ook in het buitenland

• Kansen voor internationalisering signaleren en vertalen naar kansen voor de community

• Relevante content met betrekking tot internationalisering schrijven en plaatsen op beide platformen

• Fungeren als eerste aanspreekpunt voor vragen rondom internationalisering op beide platformen

• Proactief op zoek naar nieuwe kansen om beide communities nog beter aan te sluiten bij het internationaliseringsvraagstuk

Gevraagde opleiding en ervaring

• WO/HBO werk- en denkniveau
• Uitstekende beheersing van Nederlands en Engels in woord en schrift
• Minimaal 3 jaar ervaring in internationale omgeving(en) en met internationalisering van bedrijfsleven waaronder MKB
• Je schakelt makkelijk van strategie naar uitvoering
• Een flexibele, pro-actieve en zelfstandige instelling
• Kennis van en ervaring met social media, CMS, online community management en data-analyse is een pré
• Ervaring met het werken in complexe samenwerkingsverbanden en netwerken en affiniteit met innovatieve oplossingen en stedelijke ontwikkelingen

De Amsterdam Economic Board als werkgever:

· Biedt je een dynamische werkomgeving waar publiek en privaat samenkomen;

· Functie is minimaal 32 uur

· Salarisindicatie: € 3.500 – 3.800 (o.b.v. 40 uur)

· Wij zoeken iemand die in dienst komt bij de Board - alleen als je hier voor open staat heeft het zin op deze vacature te reageren.

Acquisitie wordt niet op prijs gesteld.

Sollicitaties of meer informatie richten aan Nina Tellegen, directeur Amsterdam Economic Board, via reageer@amecboard.com. Solliciteren kan tot 12 januari 2017.

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Thanks for your support, inspiration, joy, wisdom and commitment! Let's continue this story in 2017.

In onze ambitieuze missie tot het grootschalig verduurzamen van de bestaande woningbouw in Amsterdam, zijn we op zoek naar innovatieve, eigenwijze pioniers binnen bouw- en installatiebedrijven. Wij willen graag hun expertise, kennis en vaardigheden benutten om middels kosteneffectieve oplossingen antwoord te bieden op technische uitdagingen en zo de wensen van bewoners en woningeigenaren tegemoet komen.

Wie kan ons in de juiste richting helpen?
Alvast bedankt!

E: Melchior@amsterdamsmartcity.nl
M: 06-21916371

Democracy by design:
Safeguarding democratic values in smart cities

Our world is digitizing and new systems are emerging. Across the globe, public and private parties are building the smart cities and smart infrastructures of tomorrow. They strive to improve the efficiency of systems, reduce costs, improve reliability and offer better services by implementing information technology in our public spaces and infrastructures.

These developments will play an important role in the way we will shape our future lives and society. Information technologies will be delegated decisions that affect our economic, social, personal and physical environment.

Amidst new possibilities, we need continue to ask ourselves ethical questions on the functioning of our infrastructures and cities. For example, when an energy system’s malfunction leads to temporary scarcity, who will enjoy uninterrupted energy supply? And who will have priority on the congested roads when a road accident has happened? Increasingly, information technology systems will decide how we are treated and who gets prioritized. Yet, whose technology makes decisions and based on which principles? And do these choices take into account the interests of all concerned?

We urgently need to start the discussion how our decision makers and citizens can make the right choices, as the pace of the developments is rapidly increasing.

On the 19th of December, the third edition of the Smart Citizens Talk took place in Pakhuis De Zwijger. During this event, lessons learned from smart city projects in Amsterdam were discussed. Read a short summary here.

​Do you live in a smart city?

Frank Kresin (Research Director at Waag Society) gave an introduction on the definitions of a smart city and a smart citizen. He started with a question to the audience: do you live in a Smart City? This was an interesting question but hard to answer for the majority of the crowd. Is a city smart when it is efficient? Or when it has ‘smart citizens’? His conclusion was that the definition of a smart city depends on your own perspective and vision.

​'Technology is not the problem'

After this introduction, Willem van Winden (Professor Urban Economy at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) showed the results of a research of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences about the lessons learned from smart city projects in Amsterdam. They analysed 12 smart city projects in the city of Amsterdam and evaluated them with several categories. Click here to read the report. His main conclusion was: ‘Technology itself is not the problem, but the success depends on many other factors, for instance the way users are involved in the technology, transparency during the development/project, privacy and upscaling opportunities in a city/country.

​Panel Discussion

​After this, three interesting speakers shared their experiences and view on their smart city project (Bas Boorsma from Cisco, Francesca Miazzo from CITIES, Michiel Gerritsen from WeGo and Cor Gerritsen from Mokum Maritiem).

Bas Boorsma, Director Internet of Everything at Cisco (North Europe), was one of the speakers at the panel discussion. One of his messages was: 'As a company, do not wait for the right start-up, but start up your own start-up'.

Fransesca Miazzo is co-founder of the CITIES Foundation and is doing a project in Amsterdam Noord with plastic waste collection. An interesting quote of her side: ‘Related to Inclusiveness: Provide a platform were people can benefit from a change and to go from niche to mainstream.'

Michiel Gerritsen discussed their technology to make more efficiently use of cars in Amsterdam. Did you know that 90% of the cars in Amsterdam are standing still? If these cars can smartly ‘communicate’ with each other, this percentage could go down.

At the end, some speakers shared their take-home-message:

> ‘Learn from worst practices instead of best practices’ – Cor Gerritsen and Inge Oskam
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> ‘Is your problem a shared problem? Don’t make a business out of it, but change the system’ – Fransesca Miazzo
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> ‘Use your heart in developing smart projects, use your rational only for your business model’ – Bas Boorsma

Other interesting quotes/take-home-messages of the event are:

> ‘Sharing knowledge freely is the key for innovation’ – Frank Kresin (De Waag)
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> ‘Your citizens know more than you’ – Frank Kresin
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> ‘Cities are never finished’ – Frank Kresin
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> ‘Technology is NOT the problem, it is the way how we use it’ – Willem van Winden
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> 'To become a smart city, value & teach coding skills. Otherwise the smart citizen & city won't exist' – Frank Kresin

The event can be watched on the website of Pakhuis De Zwijger: click here

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Amsterdam and Utrecht-based startups in the medical tech, e-mobility and creative industries are invited to partake in our next startup bootcamp in Munich taking place on 13-14 February 2017. The main goal of this intensive two-day bootcamp is to provide the selected Dutch startups with valuable information on a soft landing in a new market, mentoring in business development, networking opportunities and much more.

The bootcamp is organised by StartupAmsterdam and StartupUtrecht, in cooperation with MunichStartup and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Munich (Dutch link). This bootcamp will coincide with a general trade mission to southern Germany by the municipalities of Utrecht and Amsterdam, headed by Deputy Mayor Kajsa Ollongren of Amsterdam.

More information: http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/business/news/2016/startup-bootcamp-in-munich-in-february-2017