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The first copy handed to Vincent Roozen, municipal secretary Gemeente Rotterdam, by Liesbet van Zoonen
Picture by Eric Fecken
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'Jouw buurt, jouw data' team releases publication
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After a year of research, design and activities, the team behind the Centre for BOLD Cities' research game Jouw buurt, jouw data officially released its first publication. The first offical copy of this publication was handed to Vincent Roozen, municipal secretary Gemeente Rotterdam by Liesbet van Zoonen at the Rotterdam Knowledge Festival. In the publication, core team members Liesbet van Zoonen, Emiel Rijshouwer, Els Leclercq and Luuk Schokker, along with Fadi Hirzalla and Sarah Giest, explain how the research game came about and what the team learned about Dutch citizens' knowledge and behaviour in/about the smart city, and explore how municipalities can make use of these findings.
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| Working towards a BOLD Cities education: Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor Smart Cities |
| Although many of our activities entail educational purposes, and our team members and affiliates have delivered a number of (guest) lectures on BOLD Cities themes in recent years, the Centre for BOLD Cities does not yet have a fixed place in the Leiden, Delft and Erasmus student curricula. This is set to change as the BOLD Cities team is preparing a minor programme on smart cities. |
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| The urban disasters project team: Disaster management through official and social media |
| Following contacts with representatives of the Digital City project in Rotterdam and of the Fire Department Rotterdam-Rijnmond, the urban disasters project team (Monique Arkesteijn, Peter Scholten and Jan Rellermeyer together with Sobhan Omranian Khorasani and Rebecca Moody) has been developing the foundations of a data-driven approach to fire safety. In this approach, up-to-date information on any building affected by fire and its actual or projected users, including egress routes and times, can become available at city level to the authorities and emergency services in a way that facilitates not only overview and management of the problems but also particular rescue actions of emergency workers. |
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| A good start to data projects: Centre for BOLD Cities creates practical instructions for municipalities |
| Proper data analysis can be incredibly valuable for municipalities, allowing substantial policy changes in better alignment with evidence from day-to-day practice. In order to help (Dutch) municipalities figure out how to start a data project (if at all), the Centre for BOLD Cities - in close collaboration with knowledge and network organisation Platform31 - created step-by-step guidelines. |
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The Centre for BOLD Cities conveys the socially responsible use of data and digital technologies for,
by and with citizens and civil servants in the urban environment. The SHARED mission is carried out
through multidisciplinary research, education and valorisation.
If you have an interesting publication or upcoming event related to the themes of our centre, please
get in touch with us via info@boldcities.nl.
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