According to the essayist and memoirist Rebecca Solnit, to be lost is 'to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.' Solnit considers being lost 'a psychic state achievable through geography'. The flip-side is that geography can also prevent one from …

In de hedendaagse praktijk wordt BIM (gebouw informatie model) weinig gebruikt voor het beheren van vastgoed. Ook woningcorporaties, die ongeveer één derde van de woningvoorraad in Nederland beheren, gebruiken nog geen BIM in het eigen beheerproces terwijl de beheerfase wel onderdeel is van het concept …

Recently, a new marketing trend has entered the market. This new software is called marketing automation. It consists of using different marketing tools put together and thereby aiming to collect and analyse all data from an input database. Marketing automation provides organizations the opportunity …

This research analyses the situation of the Russian minority in Lithuania. Lithuania is a post-soviet country and a neighbour of the Russian Federation that has been feeling threats due to Russia´s actions in Ukraine and its overall policies for its near abroad and compatriots. As a country with a Russian …

This research was created as a contribution to the internationalization strategy of RAI Amsterdam. The company wants to bring more international conferences, and exhibitions to Amsterdam. One of the objectives of this strategy is to create an ‘international standard’, which complies with the basic services, …

In the face of increasing globalisation, with the biggest cities reaping the greatest rewards, knowledge economy specialist Willem van Winden examines the future for smaller university cities.

This essay claims that the declared war on drugs has failed, it has caused more harm than good, and that a new approach is necessary. The focus of analysis lays especially on the implemented drug policies of Mexico and the United States. The goal is to point out the flaws of the current policy based …

Verne beheert en ontwikkelt een online verzekeringsadministratieplatform. Zij stelt zich tot doel de volledige levenscyclus van verzekeringen zo veel mogelijk te automatiseren. Daarbij hebben ze te maken met verschillende klant-omgevingen van verzekeraars waarin producten aangevraagd en gewijzigd moeten …

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

In this paper we explore the extent to which privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) could be effective in providing privacy to citizens. Rapid development of ubiquitous computing and ‘the internet of things’ are leading to Big Data and the application of Predictive Analytics, effectively merging the real …