Why Holland Secure eXchange?
The role of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce is to strengthen the economy in the region. This occurs at regional level by promoting interests to optimise the business climate and at international level by means of clustering within promising sectors. The International Business stimulus programme has been set up for this purpose.
Business means trading in goods, services and information. Trading is based in part on trust, which means being able to assume that what has been agreed on in confidence will be delivered. Is it what I think it is?
The Netherlands has traditionally had an open economy with major trade streams and therefore a great interest in free exchanges of goods, services, people, data and ICT. Legal security and reliability give the Netherlands a large advantage over other countries. This certainty is found in money, certificates and passports, among other things. Security and verification assure that this trust has a foundation.
The ‘Secure Identity’ project sees the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and a number of businesses in Haarlem focusing on the core qualities of business in Haarlem that have been overlooked until now: security, reliability and value retention.
Business in Haarlem produces and supplies products and services in which these qualities are very important, such as passports, banknotes, iris scanning, courts, data security, public transport chips, medicine and legal advice. The knowledge behind these qualities is a strength that can give Haarlem businesses a solid competitive position at international level.
In a globalising economy, streams of goods, people, data and money can only function on the basis of trust and legal certainty. Providers and users of different products and services can work together to create a new competitive advantage.
One of the strengths of the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce is that it brings together different parties, which is what happened in this context in cooperation with the municipality of Haarlem and Joh. Enschedé Security Print. In the ‘Secure Identity’ project, these three organisations, together with InHolland, the Public Prosecutor, the Haarlem Circle of Industry and the Haarlem Innovation Platform, joined forces under the ‘Holland Secure eXchange’ banner.