Circular business models are selling like hot cakes in the form of refurbished smartphones, shared cars and leased furniture. Does your company also want to prevent the waste of raw materials, embrace the reuse of valuable materials and give existing products a second life? Then there is a wide choice of circular strategies.
In the coming years, the collection of textiles in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area will receive a major boost. The flywheel for this is the Green Deal Circular Textiles. In particular, the promotion of circular procurement of corporate clothing is given attention. Given the strength of the ecosystem in the MRA, the entire country can benefit from this booster role.
House of Skills came under the umbrella of the Amsterdam Economic Board as a program in April 2021. More than six months later, general director Nina Tellegen and program director Annelies Spork explain how the collaboration is going.
How do you translate the warmth of people and their values and norms into cold technology, consisting of ones and zeros? That is what digital ethics or responsible data use is all about. “To really do something with this, we need to help each other and learn from each other,” says Hilary Richters, Lead Digital Ethics at Deloitte.
The Board has been working for some time with a wide range of partners to develop concrete investment propositions for themes such as circular textiles and the bicycle metropolis or other solid agreements for employment and a smart, green and healthy region. Interesting coalitions have now emerged with parties that are actively engaged. To reinforce this, governments in the MRA signed agreements during the Sustainability Summit to make the region more sustainable together with companies and other stakeholders. The role of governments is crucial to really take the circular economy further as buyers.
From sustainable evening delivery to a digital layer over our physical infrastructure, and everything in between: smart and clean city logistics has many facets. They were all discussed at the first live Meetup in a year and a half for the partners and signatories of the Green Deal Zero Emission City Logistics in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (GDZESMRA). And with 17 new signatories on board, there was even more reason to celebrate.
The Regional Development Agency (ROM) InWest was launched in the presence of minister Stef Blok, deputy Ilse Zaal and aldermen Victor Everhardt and Pieter Dijkman. With a capital of €160 million, ROM InWest supports entrepreneurs in North Holland who are committed to accelerating the energy transition and the circular economy. Janet Nieboer has been nominated to take up office as director of ROM InWest as of 1 January 2022. The development company will be housed in the Cupola XS — the former dome prison in Haarlem.
When airlines open their treasure troves of data to each other, it all benefits them. Aircraft maintenance is becoming more efficient and precise. That makes flying safer. Yet the data remains under lock and key, for fear of competition. KLM and AMdEX partners are investigating how a neutral data notary helps in sharing data about aircraft maintenance. The Financieele Dagblad published a nice article about it.
More than 100 public and private organizations that purchase ICT equipment have united in the 'Buyer Group ICT'. This Buyer Group wants to actively contribute to a circular economy with an ambitious purchasing policy. In recent months, the Amsterdam Economic Board, as part of a group of 10 organizations, has helped shape a market vision and strategy. For example, work is being done on a more uniform working method, for example by setting the same requirements for circularity and sustainability.
Patient empowerment using data is more topical than ever. Reason enough to zoom in on that during — finally again — a live edition of Zorg2025. How can digitization contribute to the desired transformation in healthcare? And: how can you use data for your own health?
