Ep 03 - The View from Amsterdam with Frans-Anton Vermast

Frans-Anton Vermast is the international smart city ambassador for Amsterdam Smart City. His speciality is related to bottom up approaches to urban development which he describes as involving citizen engagement and a user centric approach to problem solving. In my chat with Frans-Anton we discuss - The need for a non-discriminatory approach to city solutions - How we need to re-establish trust with citizens to encourage them to share their data with their local government - Amsterdam’s approach to space sharing of government buildings - Why some residents of Amsterdam still have a car even though they only use it one day a week - Why governments need to set the conditions on how citizen data is used and whether they should police the private sector or not You can read more about Frans-Anton here https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/users/fransantonvermast He can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/faco69 Amsterdam Smart City would also like to promote their international smart city community via www.amsterdam.com and also their Smart City Festival https://wemakethe.city/en/

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The Citizen Centric podcast - Transforming our cities with Technology and Sharing. We explore examples of user centric urban services and our core message is: "if we solve the citizen’s problems first and if we do this with intuitive and easy to use tools then all of the data to make city more efficient and sustainable will be available by default" The core concept of a citizen centric, smart & sustainable city is the optimised allocation of the assets in a city. This pool of shared assets could include buildings, outdoor spaces, vehicles and even equipment like 3D printers or DIY tools.