Talk on “Digitalize and Electrify City’s Fleets: Towards a Smart, Low-carbon, and Sustainable Mobility Future”
Invited by Prof Arun Majumdar, the co-director of Stanford Bits & Watts Initiative, LKYCIC adjunct fellow, Dr Andy Zheng, gave a talk on “Digitalize and Electrify City’s Fleets” via tele-conference with the Bits & Watts research team, who are involved in the EV50 project.
Axiom Business Book Awards 2020 – Sixteen Shades of Smart
Sixteen Shades of Smart, a book published by Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) at SUTD together with IMD Business School, was awarded the bronze medal under the Business Intelligence/Innovation category at the Axiom Business Book Awards 2020.
Designing Our Age-friendly City Exhibition
Discover how our built environment can better support ageing at the latest URA Urban Lab exhibition, Designing Our Age-friendly City, 17 Oct – 31 Dec 2019, URA Centre Atrium. The exhibition will feature a study led by LKYCIC on the Innovative Planning and Design of Age-friendly Neighbourhoods in Singapore.
Launch of Smart City Index by IMD and SUTD
The IMD World Competitiveness Centre’s Smart City Observatory, in partnership with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), are proud to present the first edition of the Smart City Index 2019 (SCI), which includes a global index of 102 cities.
Critical to maintain sense of unity among S’poreans: Heng Swee Keat (ST, 01.10.2019)
Straits Times, Channel NewsAsia and a few other media covered the dialogue with DPM Mr Heng Swee Keat at the Singapore Bicentennial Conference, which was moderated by LKYCIC Chair, Prof Chan Heng Chee.
Commentary: Can we co-exist with PMDs? Yes, but we need to take a different path (CNA: 07.08.2019)
The move to regulate and ban PMDs from void decks and corridors shouldn’t miss out on the bigger picture: We should be doing our utmost to enable people to move around their city.
Singapore heeds citizens’ feedback for its new Smart City Index (ST, 2 July 2019)
The index is a joint effort between IMD and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), which came up with the idea for a new way to measure smart cities.
Project Award: Collaboration with Ministry of Communications and Information on Digital Societies
LKYCIC is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a project grant from Ministry of Communications and Information to study emerging issues in digital societies and assist Singapore’s transition into an inclusive digital society.
Tuesday Report: The Dream Catchers Ep 1 – Featuring Prof Chan Heng Chee (Mediacorp Channel 8, 29.01.2019)
Channel 8 programme, The Dream Catchers, featured Prof Chan Heng Chee, Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) and Singapore’s Ambassador-at-large, in their first episode.
Staff Achievements: Samuel Chng and Thijs Willems
We are happy to share the wonderful achievements of our colleagues, Samuel Chng and Thijs Willems.