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

Published: March 28, 2019, 8:01 p.m.

b'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. \\n\\nIn my chat with Frans-Anton we discuss \\n-\\tThe need for a non-discriminatory approach to city solutions \\n-\\tHow we need to re-establish trust with citizens to encourage them to share their data with their local government \\n-\\tAmsterdam\\u2019s approach to space sharing of government buildings \\n-\\tWhy some residents of Amsterdam still have a car even though they only use it one day a week\\n-\\tWhy governments need to set the conditions on how citizen data is used and whether they should police the private sector or not\\n\\nYou can read more about Frans-Anton here https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/users/fransantonvermast\\nHe can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/faco69\\nAmsterdam 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/'