ABOUT LKYCIC
The Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) is a research institute in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The Centre seeks to stimulate thinking and research on the critical issues of cities and urbanisation and explore the integrated use of technology, design and policy to provide urban solutions.
CENTRE UPDATES
Launch of Smart City Index 2020 by IMD and SUTD
The Institute for Management Development (IMD), in collaboration with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), has released the 2020 Smart City Index, with key findings on how technology is playing a role in the COVID-19 era in a way that is likely to remain.
With real-time supply-demand data insight, PAIR mobile app helped 25% of taxis in Chengdu boost income by more than 8%
At the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, the Smart Cities Lab looks at tools that build smart government, businesses, and communities, and scales these smart tools across a network of smart cities for greater impact. Over the past few years, Dr Andy Zheng (Adjunct Fellow) and Poon King Wang (Director) have partnered the use of PAIR Taxi big data insight platform to empower workers in the taxi industry.
IPS-Nathan Lecture III: Singapore in a Time of Flux: Optimism from the Jaws of Gloom (15 July 2020)
LKYCIC Chair Professor Chan Heng Chee delivered her 3rd IPS-Nathan lecture, titled “Singapore in a Time of Flux: Optimism from the Jaws of Gloom", on 15 July 2020. The lecture was live-streamed on IPS' Facebook page, and was moderated by Mr Bilahari Kausikan, Chairman of Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.
FEATURED EVENTS
25 September 2020: WEBINAR: Does lower population density moderate COVID-19 infection rate? Evidence from Tanah Merah, North Jakarta
Join us for a webinar on "Does lower population density moderate COVID-19 infection rate? Evidence from Tanah Merah, North Jakarta."
17 September 2020: IMD-SUTD Smart City Index Virtual Roundtable
Join us for a virtual roundtable on "Can Technology Protect Citizens' Well-being in A Pandemic World?"
15 September 2020: Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk by Wang Yang
Join our Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk with Joshua David Babcock on "Digital Asymmetries in Transnational Communication of Chinese ‘Study Mothers’: Expectation, Autonomy and Gender Positioning in the Household".