For the third year in a row, the community of Eindhoven, Netherlands is named a Smart21 Community of the Year and then a Top Seven Intelligent Community of the Year in ICF’s Intelligent Community Awards.

Eindhoven region this year was proclaimed smartest area. About 400 cities and regions throughout the world contested for this title this year in trying to win. Eventually, Brainport-Eindhoven region in June this year in New York bagged this prestigious title and became a winner as chosen by the international think tank, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). An achievement for all Eindhoven businesses to be proud of!

Eindhoven is a metro area containing the cities of Eindhoven,Helmond and Veldhoven, which has long been the industrial heart of the Netherlands.  Recent decades have not been kind to manufacturing in developed nations, but Eindhoven has kept its edge through Brainport, a model public-private program that has turned the region into an open innovation platform. Executing a strategy approved by its member organizations, Brainport works to identify their strengths, weaknesses, needs and gaps, then develops joint projects using ICT to meet social challenges, sharpen citizen skills and business competitiveness, and create business opportunities that keep the income in the region.

 

Among dozens of projects are an award-winning co-op that has brought FTTP and a broadband culture of use to the suburb of Neunen; the SKOOL outsourced IT management system for public schools; the remote home health care program Viedome; a revolutionary monitoring and e-learning system that keeps a major truck manufacturer’s vehicles on the road; and the Technific campaign, which promotes technology and tech education.  This consistent effort has added 55,000 jobs to the economy in the past 10 years, lowered unemployment below the Dutch average in most years, nearly quadrupled high-tech start-ups since 2000, and helped the region weather the financial crisis.

“I am delighted to say that, Eindhoven region has been awarded, a Smart21 Community of the Year and MACS too is in the race of making positive impact through providing best technology solutions in Healthcare, Transportation and Energy sectors,” said Guus de Nijs, Managing Director of MACS, NL. MACS EU Limited, MACS BV Netherlands, MACS GmbH Germany and MACS BVBA Belgium are part of the MACS Holding Company. Since 1986 MACS has proven itself in international, complex service and maintenance management projects where it has implemented state of art software and has delivered solid professional services for computerised maintenance management and service management.

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