Brabant Urban & Rural; One Smart Community Third meeting of the United for Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative (U4SSC) Malaga, Spain, 26 April 2018 Kees Rovers Close the Gap Slide subtitle [email protected] Nederlands Regional, Provincial & National Governance Most Vital Organs of The beating The lungs: the Smart City: heart: Nature & Green The city In the Rural Area’s Providing drinkwater Recreation and tourism Energy supply Food supply Slide subtitle Drainage rain, soil & Highways, railroads, surfacewater/ processing rivers, canals, of waste and sewers highvoltagegrids, airports 1885 1928 Vincent van Gogh DAF-Trucks Peelland North Brabant NL Potatoe-Eaters founded by Nuenen Huub & Wim van Doorne Eindhoven 1813 1897 Napoleon First Co-operative order to cultivate Farmers Bank by 319 AD Peel en Kempen Father vd Elsen The Golden Roman Geldrop Helmet of De Peel 0 400 1800 1850 1900 1945 AD AD 100 thousands 1914 1948 hectares wild Eindhoven 1846 1891 Philips Physics Marshall-Plan and desolate Helmond Vlisco founded by Philips founded by Laboratories Mechanisation of swamp area. Home- P. Fentener- Frederik, father of v. Vlissingen Gerard & Anton Founded Agriculture 2 Small Cities: Manufactering. Eindhoven Helmond Eindhoven Helmond Cigars Textile Small scale Agriculure Page 3 2018 Peelland North Brabant NL Roll-Out of FttH in Rural Area’s 100% Coverage 2005 2010 2011 1st Fiber-to-the- Netherlands is Broadband Manifesto 1956 Home Co-operative 2nd global Brabant Fund Eindhoven Nuenen agricultural exporter for Rural Area’s University of (after USA) Techology Rabobank: leading bank worldwide in food and agri 1950 2000 2010 2020 2018 Utilisation of Urban & 2005-2015 Rural Connectivity for a 1980-2005 Massive FttH roll-out through The Netherlands Smart and Sustainable Philips spins-off (except Rural Area’s) 2016 Community. ASML, NXP, FEI to Brainport Eindhoven become multi-B$ Intelligent Community Industries of the Year located around Eindhoven Page 4 Peelland, Helmond & Eindhoven; Smart Community Using masterplan of the ITU Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities Page 5 THANK YOU Kees Rovers Founder Close the Gap the Netherlands Senior Fellow Intelligent Community Forum New York [email protected] Page 6.