The City of Amsterdams main aims in the project are to contribute to the definition of the e-services, based on research and the needs of the cities; to serve as a pilot for the developed services; to help find data sources for the project.

The City of Amsterdam (official name Gemeente Amsterdam) is the capital of the Netherlands and is the largest city in the Netherlands (740000 inhabitants). The larger Amsterdam area has about 1,3 million inhabitants.

The city of Amsterdam has a high level of digitisation.
The websites Amsterdam.nl and Iamsterdam.com receive respectively 20000 and 4000 visitors per day. E-government and the delivery of electronic services is now an integral part of the total of services delivered by the city to citizens. In 2006 about 37% of the citizens visited the website Amsterdam.nl regularly. 18% of the citizens use e-services on the website. The city has received the national prize for the best practices in e-government twice: in 1999 and in 2006.
In the field of geographical information systems (GIS) applications have been developed for internal goals as well as for public use. For internal use there is the Atlas Amsterdam which integrates maps of Amsterdam, 360° photographs of the whole city on the street level, the land register of the city, aerial photographs, social-economic strata etc. For external use there are applications as a street finder, which is also linked to a database of 20,000 hostoric photographs of the city archives.
www.amsterdam.nl is the official website in Dutch
www.iamsterdam.com is the official website in English.

Egbert Wolf
Gemeente Amsterdam - City of Amsterdam
Directie Communicatie - Communications Department

Amstel 1
1011 PN Amsterdam
Phone: +31 20 552 32 62
www.amsterdam.nl
www.iamsterdam.com