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."
To get out of the crisis green, the Board is working in collaboration with the Municipality of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area Bureau on making textiles circular. Five intentions have been expressed to contribute to a circular approach to textiles for the next three years: refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, repurpose or recycling and regional processing. Many parties in the region signed the intention.
The famous Data plus Pizza meetings are finally back: online, without pizza, and offering four €5,000 grants for seed projects to fuel collaboration between AI specialists and healthcare professionals in Amsterdam. Welcome to the ‘Cardiology and Money’ edition.
The promises of the use of data and new technologies are great; our cities are becoming greener and more livable, health care more effective and education more accessible. But what happens to the available data now that more and more traffic is flowing online? Who develops the algorithms and who is ultimately responsible? The manifesto 'Tada - Clear about data' contains values that should apply in digitally responsible cities. In this interview, we will examine one of those values together with an expert.
The smart, green and healthy region that the Board organizations are working on can only be achieved if organizations in the region work together on it: Geert ten Dam and Robert Metzke are convinced of this. 'Only if you have everyone at the table will you arrive at valuable solutions.'
