The national government has great circular ambitions. Converting this from paper to practice with all parties required for this is a tremendous task. Acceleration of the implementation of the circular economy is needed. In the Amsterdam region, the Amsterdam Economic Board has built up five years of experience with impressive results.
The power of Tada is that it is based on principles, so many people agree with it. At the same time, ethical principles are abstract. Yes, we want a digital city from everyone and for everyone. But how do you put that into practice? A lot of work has already gone into Tada's practical application, for example in partnership with the Municipality of Amsterdam. And now it is time to take the next steps to develop Tada in practice.
A coalition of companies and governments from the Amsterdam data center chain has achieved energy savings of 10 percent in recent months by running data servers in 'saving mode' without any loss of performance. With this data center energy saving coalition 'LEAP' (Lower Energy Acceleration Program) achieves its first demonstrable success in the goal of reducing energy consumption by 20 to 40 percent in the next three years. The positive results of the pilots at Schiphol, KPN, Rabobank and the North Sea Canal Area Environmental Service have now been actively shared with the parties in the LEAP coalition. The active sharing of the results, on the basis of information, instruction and training material, the so-called 'Happy Flow Manual', should make the transition to wide-ranging use of the energy-efficient eco mode quickly and efficiently applicable to any organization.
We often talk about talent with and at Young on Board. Also as part of our 'triptych' sessions in which young game changers, experts from the field and board members have their say in three different sessions. The highlight of the triptych is an issue of one of the Board members that lies far in the future and is still very uncertain. A challenge that calls for a critical look and questions that can be quite abrasive. Young on Board enters into conversation and looks for the pain and the gain. Without offering immediate solutions, with extra food for thought (and sometimes material to ignite).
The three most promising innovative scale-ups in healthcare are known. These healthcare innovators and representatives from the region have a chance of winning a place in the final of the National Healthcare Innovation Prize; the prize for the most innovative company in the scale-up phase in the field of care and welfare.
Publicroam offers people Wi-Fi access at guest locations such as libraries and the Salvation Army. You only need to create a Publicroam account once. You can then automatically go online at all affiliated locations. Privacy, security and ease of use are of paramount importance at Publicroam. For the Tada manifesto, we spoke with co-founder Paul Francissen about how to involve people in value-driven technology and what role Tada could play in this.
About 1.6 to 1.8 million mattresses are discarded in the Netherlands every year. A stack of about a thousand Eiffel towers on top of each other. Recycling of this has grown enormously in the past two years. So reports NOS. The Amsterdam Economic Board has been working on making mattresses circular since 2016. After all, mattresses are the largest flow of household residual waste.
Logistics, sustainability and digitization: these themes play an important role at the Royal Flora Holland cooperative, as they do for many Board members. The cooperative, with nearly 4,000 growers as a member, makes an important contribution to the green and healthy Metropolitan Region, says General Manager Steven van Schilfgaarde.
With increasing digitization, there are more and more larger data centers in the Netherlands. These are filled with hardware such as data servers that consume a lot of energy in the production and use phase. Together with experts and frontrunners, we identify the bottlenecks and determine how circular solutions can be reached and scaled up. In particular, the guiding role of clients in the context of circular procurement and tendering is discussed. In collaboration with regional knowledge and innovation broker Utrecht Sustainability Institute (USI), a diptych on circular data servers and circular procurement of ICT at the workplace has been organized.
If it were up to Atilla Aytekin and Jeroen Verwoort, the Board will not only work on a smart, green and healthy region, but also on an entrepreneurial region. "The energy transition in our region, in the port and at Schiphol must become a business case that is interesting for the whole world."
