Singapore’s vision of a smart nation: Thinking big, starting small and scaling fast

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2-2018

Abstract

With a population of 5.4 million and land area of 718 square kilometres, 94 percent of Singapore’s population live in high-rise apartments, of which, 82 percent dwell in public housing. As an ultra-dense city-state, effective and innovative urban development is a social and economic imperative intricately intertwined with Singapore’s competitiveness and quality of life. Harnessing information and communications technology (ICT) is not only essential to achieving this, but also serves as a template for answering some of the global challenges faced by urban centres around the world–particularly in regard to economic development, social cohesion, better city administration and infrastructure management. See full text at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1531

Keywords

With a population of 5.4 million and land area of 718 square kilometres, 94 percent of Singapore’s population live in high-rise apartments, of which, 82 percent dwell in public housing. As an ultra-dense city-state, effective and innovative urban development is a social and economic imperative intricately intertwined with Singapore’s competitiveness and quality of life. Harnessing information and communications technology (ICT) is not only essential to achieving this, but also serves as a template for answering some of the global challenges faced by urban centres around the world–particularly in regard to economic development, social cohesion, better city administration and infrastructure management.

Discipline

Accounting | Asian Studies | Technology and Innovation

Research Areas

Corporate Governance, Auditing and Risk Management

Publication

Living in smart cities: Innovation and sustainability

Editor

Thomas Menkhoff, Kan Siew Ning, Hans-Dieter Evers & Chay Yue Wah

First Page

63

Last Page

74

ISBN

9789813232839

Identifier

10.1142/10785

Publisher

World Scientific

City or Country

Singapore

Comments

Reprint of an article published in May 2016 Asian Management Insights. See full text at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1531

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1142/10785

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