- 28Nov
Smart Energy = sustainable generation, durable storage and smart distribution
Thereâs a lot of focus now on climate and energy, because of the Paris meetings. It also has its impact on (smart) cities: by keeping their âenergy-householdsâ under a healthy focus, cities can become durably smarter. When watching all the data and graphs on this subject, it shows that about…
1 comments Read more28OctIncrease of drones in the city
I expect that this increase will appear sooner then we expect it to do: the use of drones in the city. If you have a look at the multiple possibilities. Add to this the developments of the last fifteen years. Compare todayâs drone to the first Apple computer of fifteen years…
14SepThe digital city is continuously growing
12 September 1969: a team of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) is the first to connect two machines with ARPAnet: one on UCLA and one on the Stanford-university in Palo Alto. Few people know thatâs the day the internet was invented. Almost 50 years ago. But it…
1 comments Read more01AugThinking in The Long Tail
The digital city, where everything is connected to the internet, makes thinking in the long tail possible: tailored solutions for people who donât fit in mainstream solutions. Chris Anderson came up with this name as a philosophy for this age of internet: the long tail. He first mentioned it in…
20JulFive trends in smarter cities in the Netherlands
Recently a magazine asked me to name my personal five trends in smarter cities. Though there are many more, a number of trends came to me immediately â based on what Iâve seen at the recent Smart City Event in the Amsterdam Arena, and the Smartest-City-of-Holland-election (where I performed as…
1 comments Read more09JunSmart City Event 2015 â looking back on three days of looking ahead
From June 3th till Friday 5th the annual International Smart City Event took place in the Amsterdam Arena. It was the fifth edition, and for me the third visit. In my view, the event has become more mature. Last two years centered mostly around examples and pilots, and with a…
0 comments Read more28MayThomas Rau: “Donât focus on smart cities. We need to grow into a smart society.”
This time I have an exhilarating conversation with Thomas Rau, architect and in a way a philosopher as well. He is well known for his sustainable and human-centered architecture and how it demonstrates and creates awareness of how human activities influence the built environment. What is your view on smart…
0 comments Read more25May1 2 3 4 Next »The smartest city center in the Netherlands
This spring, a new election is set up: which municipality has the smartest city center in the Netherlands? Initiator of this election is Smart Data City, a consortium of cooperating institutions. They have asked me to join as a member of the jury and as such judge the visions and…
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