Keeping essential workers moving: public transport and COVID-19

By |2023-06-06T15:21:23+02:006 July 2020|News|

Since Prime Minister Mark Rutte addressed the nation on 12 March with a clear message to stay at home, public transport agencies were tasked with a unique set of challenges. During the ADS and ADMS webinar ‘COVID-19 and Capacity Modelling in Public Transport’, representatives from Netherlands Railways, or shortly NS, Dennis Huisman and Menno de Bruyn explained how the organisation used data science to adapt its services and predict its future.

With COVID-19, data science is having a very large moment

By |2023-06-06T15:21:24+02:002 July 2020|News, News|

It’s a somewhat awkward truth: the current global coronavirus pandemic is proving to be a boon for data scientists. Large amounts of data is streaming in from all over: not only hospital intensive care units (ICUs) but the private sector, too. As a result, data scientists have a lot of rich information to pump into their models – improving their ability to predict possible future scenarios that could help us better manage a possible second wave.

Municipality of Almere enters into collaboration with TekkieWorden Foundation

By |2023-06-06T15:21:25+02:002 July 2020|News|

In order to cope with the increasing shortage of IT staff, public and private partners from Almere are entering into a partnership with TekkieWorden. With a package of measures, the ambition is to activate people of all ages for tech studies and retrain them for IT jobs. Despite COVID-19, companies in Almere are struggling with an increasing shortage of IT talent. With this program, the Municipality of Almere wants to provide an answer to the many people who want to train or retrain in IT because their current job offers little prospect for the future. Of the more than 40,000 people who work in an administrative position, this program offers more employment prospects in the fast-growing ICT sector in Almere.

Fighting the coronavirus with data science

By |2023-06-06T15:21:26+02:0017 June 2020|News|

How do we trust all the data being generated by COVID-19? How can we apply this data to help formulate the best exit strategies from the current crisis? These were some of the questions posed at the first ADS & AMDS Webinar in a series that explores ‘The Power and Weakness of Data and Modelling in COVID-19’.

Dreams and pragmaticism: improving access to medication

By |2023-06-06T15:21:27+02:009 June 2020|News|

The first virtual version of the Amsterdam Life Sciences Café focused on a timely subject: how to improve access to medication – such as a potential coronavirus vaccine – in a sustainable way. Conclusion: while a global pandemic is a horrible situation, it can help us chart out a fairer, brighter and, yes, global future.

Making innovation happen in Life Sciences & Health

By |2023-06-06T15:20:15+02:007 May 2020|News|

The corona crisis puts a spotlight on a number of challenges that we need to work on. The one standing out is the need to share data in a safe, secure and transparent way and apply it to improve health and care. This crisis shows us the way forward: in collaboration with governments, academia, companies and care providers. And not just in the healthcare sector. Data scientists, ethicists, economists, the army and many others are working together towards that same goal: to mitigate this crisis in the best possible way. To achieve that goal and to make health and healthcare future-poof, we need to sustain this collaboration and build on the unique strength of every partner involved.

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