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
Staff Achievement: Dr Belinda Yuen
LKYCIC is pleased to announce that Dr Belinda Yuen has been to appointed to the Editorial Board of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Library Series with effect from 1 Jan 2021.
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.
FEATURED EVENTS
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".
20 August 2020: Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk by Joshua David Babcock
Join our Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk with Joshua David Babcock on "Image and the Total Utopia: Scaling Raciolinguistic Belonging in Singapore".