51 parties sign City Deal ‘Creating a Smart City, Here’s How’
Digitalization and technological advancement will transform regions, cities and villages around the world in the coming years, including in the Netherlands. In response to this transition, on Thursday December 3, 2020, State Secretary Knops of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) together with Minister Van Nieuwenhuizen of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) and Minister Grapperhaus of Justice and Security (JenV) signed the City Deal ‘Creating a Smart City, Here’s How’. They were joined by leaders from 16 municipalities and 2 provinces, a water authority, 15 companies (including Argaleo) and 14 civic organizations. Over the next two years, the partners will tackle twelve complex challenges to advance the smart city concept.
Why the City Deal ‘Creating a Smart City, Here’s How’
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Through the internet and technological applications, objects and their users in physical space are connected into an intelligent network. Everything and everyone can communicate with each other. Distance becomes less relevant and society much more flexible. This creates new opportunities to make cities more sustainable. But it also brings risks in the areas of privacy and democracy. To seize opportunities and avoid risks, this City Deal establishes clear agreements and develops new approaches. The deal focuses on changing the processes that regions, cities and villages use to design, organize, manage and govern. The City Deal is therefore also referenced in the National Strategy on the Physical Environment (Nationale Omgevingsvisie).
Tools for the smart city
The City Deal develops at least twelve new tools with the aim of changing the processes used to design, organize, manage and govern regions, cities and villages. The tools are feasible, scalable and shareable, so that other cities can benefit from them as well. They comply with European democratic values and contribute to a livable city as intended in Sustainable Development Goal 11, established by the United Nations, which states that cities must become inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The tools are compiled in a toolbox. According to Wim Willems, chair of the Smart City administrative theme group of the G40 and alderman in Apeldoorn, this is one of the reasons he is so enthusiastic about the City Deal: “If municipalities want to fully benefit from the opportunities that digitalization offers, they need to collaborate and not all reinvent the wheel. The City Deal provides every opportunity for that.”
Partners City Deal ‘Creating a Smart City, Here’s How’
The following government bodies, companies and civic organizations signed the City Deal: gemeente Almere, AM, gemeente Amersfoort, Amsterdam Smart City, gemeente Apeldoorn, Arcadis, Argaleo, ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties, BNA, BNSP, BPD Ontwikkeling, gemeente Breda, BTG, gemeente Capelle aan den IJssel, Civity, gemeente Den Haag, gemeente Deventer, DHM, Economic Board Utrecht, ELBA\REC, gemeente Enschede, FIWARE Foundation, FME, Future City Foundation, gemeente Heerlen, Heijmans, gemeente Helmond, gemeente ‘s-Hertogenbosch, ICTU, het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, Kadaster, Kennedy Van der Laan, gemeente Maastricht, NVTL, Provincie Overijssel, Over Morgen, Phbm, Platform31, Nationale Politie, Rijksvastgoedbedrijf, Stad Roeselare (Belgium), gemeente Rotterdam, gemeente Sittard-Geleen, VodafoneZiggo, Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe, We-Consultants, WeCity, provincie Zuid-Holland, gemeente Zwolle. This City Deal is additionally supported by VNG and the Data & Knowledge Hub for Healthy Urban Living.
City Deals
City Deals are part of Agenda Stad, the intergovernmental program in which cities, civic partners and the national government collaborate to strengthen innovation in Dutch cities. City Deals aim to drive innovation. In City Deals, the parties involved make concrete agreements with each other. In this approach, substance is central and the different parties collaborate as equals. For more information, visit www.agendastad.nl
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