LKYCIC NEWS
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.
Media reports of LKYCIC Chair Professor Chan Heng Chee’s third IPS-SR Nathan lecture
The following are media reports featuring LKYCIC Chair Professor Chan Heng Chee's third lecture in the IPS-SR Nathan Fellow Series. She covered the Singapore General Election 2020, the Singapore Political & Economic Model and Singapore Strategic Choices in the International Regional Environment.
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.
IPS-Nathan Lecture II: The US-China Rivalry: Inevitable War or Avoidable War (1 July 2020)
Professor Chan Heng Chee's 2nd IPS-Nathan lecture, titled “The US-China Rivalry: Inevitable War or Avoidable War?”, was held on 1 July 2020 and live-streamed on IPS' Facebook page. The lecture was moderated by Professor Joseph Liow, Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.
LKYCIC NEWS ARTICLES | OP-EDS
美中争锋非冷战 冲突必然或可免? (Lianhe Zaobao, 09.07.20)
Lianhe Zaobao published an opinion piece by LKYCIC Chair Prof Chan Heng Chee about the US-China rivalry. This article was based on a lecture she delivered at the 7th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series titled The US-China Rivalry: Inevitable War or Avoidable War.
US-China rivalry: it’s not a Cold War, but is conflict inevitable or avoidable? (South China Morning Post, 02.07.2020)
South China Morning Post published an opinion piece by LKYCIC Chair Prof Chan Heng Chee about the US-China rivalry. This article was based on a lecture she delivered at the 7th IPS-Nathan Lecture Series titled The US-China Rivalry: Inevitable War or Avoidable War.
How life in our cities will look after the Coronavirus Pandemic (Foreign Policy, 01.05.2020)
Foreign Policy asked 11 leading thinkers to weigh in on their predictions as to how life in cities will look after the Covid-19 pandemic. LKYCIC Chair, Prof Chan Heng Chee was one of the 11 to share her views.
Responding to COVID-19: What can we learn from Singapore? (Croakey, 14.04.2020)
Australian news site Croakey published an article about how Australia can learn from Singapore in their response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The article featured a write-up by LKYCIC research fellow Dr Brigid Trenerry, senior research assistant Ms Jocelin Lam and research fellow Dr Samuel Chng.
Urgent need for multilateral action and global leadership (ST, 14.04.2020)
Chan Heng Chee, ''Urgent need for multilateral action and global leadership", The Straits Times 14 April 2020, in the ST op-ed series titled "Coronavirus: The Great Disruption".
LKYCIC IN THE NEWS
Singapore tops world Smart City Index again, lauded for handling of Covid-19 (ST, 17.09.2020)
Straits Times reported that Singapore topped the Smart Cities Index once again. The index was published by Swiss business school Institute of Management Development in partnership with SUTD.
Share of accounting tasks done by machines to surge by 80%: study (BT, 26.08.2020)
Business Times shared a study which reported that the share of accounting tasks done by machines will surge by 80% in the next three to five years. The study was conducted by the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, LKYCIC and Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd.