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About the DMI ecosystem

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The Netherlands faces major and urgent challenges.

CO2 and nitrogen emissions must be reduced significantly. We need 900,000 additional homes in the city, the climate urgently requires adjustments in the built environment, and energy supply is no longer a given. In addition, the pressure on available space, the mobility system, our energy networks and public finances has further increased. Citizens, businesses and governments notice the consequences of this every day. 

 

All these different issues are interrelated. And so if we really want to tackle all these major challenges properly, we must do so in coherence. So that the way in which we organize our environment, stay there and move around really does bring sustainable progress. That requires the targeted coordination of policies and investments - both between governments and between governments and the business community - so that we make sufficient scale and impact quickly. And in doing so, we must maximize the potential of information technology, within socially responsible frameworks.

DMI ecosystem facilities.

Cohesion and cooperation are keywords of DMI ecosystem. We shape that with the facilities below. 

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This is how the DMI ecosystem was created

June 2021
The beginning

A few companies contacted the Ministry of Infrastructure and Watermanagement with the idea for a data-driven ecosystem relating to mobility data. Later on, the scope broadened to smart and sustainable urbanisation.

November 2021
1st proposal

Public and Private partners together  submitted the Data-Driven Ecosystem for Mobility and Smart City (DEMS) investment proposal to the Dutch National Growth Fund.

April 2022
Approval

The proposal was approved by the National Growth Fund, on the condition that some adjustments were made. The team went back to incorporate all feedback in a adjusted version of the proposal under a new name: the Dutch Metropolitan Innovations (DMI) ecosystem.

September 2022
Expansion

The adjusted version of the proposal included 17 innovation offers by a number of different (consortia of) partners. Both the ministries of Infrastructure and Watermanagement and Internal Affairs and Kingdom relations and participating municipalities (G40 cities network) submitted the new proposal to the National Growth Fund.

February 2023
Council of Ministers

The Dutch Council of Ministers, based on a positive advice from the National Growth Fund, decides to invest 85 million euros in the further development of the DMI- ecosystem. The business community contributes an additional 42 million euros, an additional 50 million euros comes from local governments.

November 2023
Innovation Assignments

From the DMI-ecosystem, the first innovation assignments are being issued. This involves the development of innovative applications, based on data exchange and reuse between different parties and domains.

February 2024
Opening DMI Centre

The DMI Centre, located at Barchman Wuytierslaan 10 in Amersfoort, opens its doors. The Centre offers the DMI network a physical place, centrally located in the country, where public and private partners can meet.

These DOCUMENTS form the basis of the dmi ecosystem

Executive Summary - NGF proposal Dec 2022

Smart Cities in the G40, CapGemini

Dutch Metropolitan Innovations- NGF voorstel publieksversie 

Propositie G40, slimme duurzame verstedelijking en mobiliteits-verniewing

Maatschappelijke Impact van slimme en duurzame verstedelijking, Ecorys

Slimme en duurzame verstedelijking Goudappel et al.

Functioning of the DMI ecosystem.

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Products and Data Exchange (PDX).

The Products and Data Exchange, or PDX, is the collective name for the facilities we develop and manage to make offered and searched for data findable and available for use. With the DMI-PDX we ensure that participants can offer and purchase products and services. Responsible and reliable are the key words here. The PDX is the engine block of the DMI ecosystem: it enables data exchange in order to accelerate smart, sustainable urbanization and mobility renewal.
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Governance

The arrangement of consultation and decision-making, that's what we mean by governance. This is where agreements are made and monitored. The follow-up of agreements and the desired scaling up are monitored. Two public-private consultative bodies are particularly important in this regard: the Eco-Council and the Management Council.

 

The Eco Council oversees the main goals to be achieved, impacts to be achieved, strategies to be adopted and choices to be made that affect the entire DMI ecosystem. The Ecoraad is primarily focused on growth: growth of participants, growth of data exchange and growth of economic and societal impacts. The Eco-Council is the highest decision-making body of the DMI ecosystem consisting of one (1) representative from each participant at board level and meets 3-4 times a year.

 

Whereas the Eco Council focuses on the broad context of the ecosystem, the Management Council focuses on the tactical/instrumental and technical-operational issues within the DMI ecosystem, including the PDX. For specific items, such as a new interface, temporary working groups can be set up from among the members of the Management Council, which work on a topic in a short period of time and report back to the Management Council. New participants will receive information about participation in both councils in their welcome message.

 

Two consultations are particularly important for public-public coordination: the Administrative Agenda Consultation and the Directors' Consultation. In addition, there is an official network that meets regularly to discuss cross-municipal issues.

DMI-Centre

The DMI Centre, located at Barchman Wuytierslaan 10 in Amersfoort, offers the DMI network a physical place, centrally located in the country, where public and private partners can meet. It is a place for knowledge exchange, training and education, consultations, demos and collaboration. The Center is open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Participants can reserve a room online.
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Appointment system

The Agreements System describes the "rules of the game" for all participants: conditions for joining the ecosystem, rights and obligations, protocols for data access and use of the PDX. Signing the Appointment System is a prerequisite for participation in the ecosystem.
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DMI Ecosystem Facility Foundation

The DMI Ecosystem Facilitation Foundation is an organization dedicated to facilitating and supporting the DMI Ecosystem. The foundation performs a variety of support tasks, makes expenditures, and maintains an annual budget, administration and implementation plan to that end. Implementation is invested in Future City Foundation, ConnAct and WE Labs, commissioned by the Ministry of IenW.

Executive Summary - NGF proposal Dec 2022

In early 2023, the proposal to establish the public-private ecosystem Dutch Metropolitan Innovations was approved by the National Growth Fund committee. The consortium of companies, knowledge institutes, (pioneering) municipalities, provinces and the Ministries of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and Infrastructure and Water Management wants to give concrete, scalable and data-driven substance to smart, sustainable urbanization and mobility renewal and remove (technological) barriers on the side of supply and demand. An online marketplace will be set up, knowledge sharing will take place, participants in the consortium will make joint agreements on standardization, and participants will realize applications in the field of Digital Twins, City Support Centers, sensor data, mobility hubs and urban data platforms, among other things.

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Smart Cities in the G40

Three years ago, Capgemini conducted an inventory of Smart City projects in the G40 municipalities. The survey etalized a wide range of Smart City initiatives (more than 400) for the themes of Smart Governance, Smart Economy, Smart Mobility, Smart Environment, Smart Citizen and Smart Living. The goal of the study was to identify accelerators, bottlenecks and managerial experience so that smart city projects and pilots can be implemented more effectively (in an ecosystem) in the future.  

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Dutch Metropolitan Innovations - NGF proposal, public version

In early 2023, the proposal to establish the public-private ecosystem Dutch Metropolitan Innovations was approved by the National Growth Fund committee. The consortium of companies, knowledge institutes, (pioneering) municipalities, provinces and the Ministries of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and Infrastructure and Water Management wants to give concrete, scalable and data-driven substance to smart, sustainable urbanization and mobility renewal and remove (technological) barriers on the side of supply and demand. For example, an online marketplace will be set up, knowledge sharing will take place, consortium participants will make joint agreements on standardization and participants will realize applications in the field of Digital Twins, City Support Centers, sensor data, mobility hubs and urban data platforms.

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Proposition G40 smart, sustainable urbanization and mobility renewal

In 2022, the G40 cities made a proposal to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management to jointly develop smart, sustainable urbanization and mobility renewal with all connected cities and the national government. G40 cities and I&W are developing and connecting (data-driven) instruments for this purpose with the aim of integrally and cost-effectively uniting common policy goals, content and working methods in a single policy approach. 

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Social Impact of smart, sustainable urbanization , Ecorys

Research firm Ecorys conducted a 2021 exploration of the social impact of Smart and Sustainable Urbanization. The qualitative and quantitative exploration revealed the usefulness and necessity of adopting an integral, data-driven approach that is committed to smart infill in cities. It also showed that the realization of social added value in a city is pre-eminently a combination of domains in which investments in, for example, mobility or energy benefit the spatial domain.

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Smart and Sustainable Urbanization, Goudappel et al.

In a follow-up to the Ecorys report, KAW Architects, Ecorys and Goudappel demonstrate concretely that targeted, cohesive and coordinated investments in the pillars of physical space, mobility and energy offer both social and financial added value. For three neighborhood/neighborhood cases in Zwolle alone, it has been calculated that an additional investment of approximately €29.9 million aimed at smart infill development compared to expansion can lead to positive social effects of approximately €60.2 million. Based on the same research methodology for finding densification locations with potential for mobility renewal, the three neighborhood/neighborhood cases in Rotterdam-Alexander district show respective figures of 80.7 million euro and 134.3 million euro.

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