About the DMI-ecosystem
The Netherlands faces major and urgent challenges
CO2 and nitrogen emissions must be reduced significantly. We need 900.000 new homes in all parts of our country preferably before 2030, climate issues urgently require adjustments in our built environment and our energy supply is no longer a given. Moreover, our available space, our mobility system, our energy networks and our public finances are under severe pressure. Citizens, businessess and governments experience the consequences every single day.Â
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All these issues are interrelated. And that is why, if we really want to tackle all these major challenges effectively, we must do so in a coherent manner. And we must do so together. To make sure that the way we build our houses, design our cities and move around really does bring sustainable progress for generations to come. And that requires careful coordination of policies and investments - both among governments and between governments and business - to ensure sufficient upscaling and concrete impact. And in doing so, we must maximize the potential of information technology, within socially responsible frameworks.
This is how the DMI-ecosysteem originated
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.
Public and Private partners together submitted the Data-Driven Ecosystem for Mobility and Smart City (DEMS) investment proposal to the Dutch National Growth Fund.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Functioning of the DMI ecosystem.
Collaborate on scalable solutions and responsible use of data.