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

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/