DIGITAL DELTA Environmental challenges & climate change opportunities Antwerp march 24-25 2015

Raymond Feron

Programme director

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1953 The Netherlands

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Delta Works 1.0

• Brick & Mortar

• Binary

• Single Purpose

1953

Watersystem

Very well managed Under climate change pressure

Complex Interconnected with other functions

Flood safety

Fresh water availability

More crop per drop

Logistics (Harbor Rotterdam

supplies 75% of Western

Europe within 2 days)

Ecology

Energy efficiency

Adaptive

Affordable

Optimizaton needed

>100 initiatives

Dutch Water

Management

annual cost: € 7

billion

30-60% of budgets spend on:

• Finding data

•Getting Access

•Validating quality

•Duplication of IT tools

Current situation

While saving costs and driving innovation

From To

1. Prove the business impact, in all its aspects

2. Facilitae re-use of both data & services: develop

once, use many times

3. Data ownership and quality control

remains with the original Data owner

4. Focus on availability of services instead of traditional developement

of applications

5. No vendor lock in/out

Keep it simple

Design principles

Digital Delta

Data sources:

web services &

linked open data

applications:

web services

Digital Delta connectivity: 1. A catalogue for existing data & software

2. Standardisation (semantic & technical)

to enable re-use

www.digitaledelta.nl

DD: impact

To conclude

data services

thank you

Raymond Feron

Programma directeur Digitale Delta

raymond.feron@rws.nl

+31651450634