Dutch courage

14/05/2015

Yesterday, Robert-Jan Sips performed the opening lecture for the first highschool education developed in the Poseidon Project. The education will run at the Montessori Schools in Amsterdam and Almere. During the next weeks, students will experiment with computer-guided drip irrigation in an effort to create the healthiest mustard plant with the least amount of water. The cookbook on how to do this at schools near you will soon be provided through Poseidonproject.org and IBM Developerworks.
Many thanks to all of our volunteers, especially Manfred Overmeen, Robert Iepsma and Maurits van Bellen; who made this course possible!

Poseidon Project at ICT in de Wolken. A contest for efficient, computer guided, drip irrigation for high-school students.
www.poseidonproject.org

08/05/2015

Great discussion at Delft University of Technology (world leading in water management) yesterday; trying to find methods to go from the current micro measurements to the scale needed to observe whole fields. We had some pretty cool ideas; stay tuned! News is coming soon!

06/05/2015

Meanwhile in California.... Staggering that in todays world of zelf driving cars we still overuse water and throw away the food grown at the expense of the planet...

Farmers, business owners and residents gird for unprecedented cuts

21/04/2015

Great news! Team expanded with 10 volunteers from IBM Groningen and we're moving quickly towards the next release of the Poseidon sensors. Updates here will follow soon!

03/04/2015

Just learned Poseidon will be nominated for the IBM Chairman Environmental Award! Seems we're on the right track!

02/04/2015

Poseidon is now available in Russian language!

Поиск по IBM developerWorks

16/03/2015

Just learned that IBM has selected the Poseidon app in the top 10 of Bluemix apps! Great news in our joint charge for water conservation!

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-a-year-of-bluemix-top-10-app/index.html

14/02/2015

In March, Robert-Jan will speak on the Dutch ICT.OPEN conference on the Poseidon Project and our aims! Fingers crossed new parties will join our cause for a better world!

Robert-Jan Sips is leading IBM’s collaborative academic research programs in the Netherlands at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS). Next to that he is Chairman of the Dutch Courage foundation and a visiting researcher in the Web&Media group at VU University Amsterdam. He is actively involved…

10/01/2015

Dutch Article on the IBM Smarter Planet Blog, giving more background on our mission and the progress of Project Poseidon!

Op 1 september 2014 vertrokken Robert-Jan Sips en Gert Jan Keizer vanuit Amsterdam om een samenwerking op te zetten met Russische en Centraal Aziatische

01/12/2014

Entered Turkmenistan safely! Diesel prices have plummeted to around $0.20 per liter, a relief to fill up again after uzbekistan!

Two-way text messaging anywhere in the world with the inReach satellite communicator.

30/11/2014

This is the result of our failure to preserve the important ecosystems we depend upon.

Once the Aral Sea, now a ship graveyard

13/11/2014

A few hours later, nearly there! Time for Plov & Chai!

Two-way text messaging anywhere in the world with the inReach satellite communicator.