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In de afgelopen dertig jaar is haast ongemerkt een nieuwe infrastructuur ontstaan. Na een bescheiden start als gast van bestaande telefoonlijnen en coaxkabels heeft deze nieuwkomer zich via netwerken van glasvezels door ons land weten te verspreiden en is nu zelfs bezig ons luchtruim te veroveren.
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Frank Schipper: Sympathetic infrastructure
‘Couch surfing’ is by far the most sympathetic infrastructure I have yet come across. Couch surfing is an ICT based network and a true community; a virtual reality with real-life consequences..
Large infrastructure projects require significant investments. These are often risky and irreversible. Although decisions are taken with a view to the future, they are still static: all decisions are taken in the present, and the infrastructure cannot be adjusted to future changes. To increase the flexibility of these systems, researchers are elaborating a valuation method that allows for future decisions. more
Our society increasingly depends on complex networks such as the Internet, power grids, transportation networks, social networks etcetera. Due to their importance to society, these networks have already received much interest from the research community. However, many crucial aspects of complex networks are not yet sufficiently understood. more
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On June 1, Margot Weijnen, scientific director of NGInfra has undersigned a Memorandum of Understanding with 4 other parties for joint research activities on Eco-cities at Shenzhen. more
On the 13th Economics of Infrastructures Conference the two approaches of Prof. Elinor Ostrom and Prof. Oliver Williamson were applied with respect to the regulation of next generation infrastructures... more