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
Citation
FOO, See Liang and PAN, Gary.
Singapore’s vision of a smart nation: Thinking big, starting small and scaling fast. (2018). Living in smart cities: Innovation and sustainability. 63-74.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1665
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1142/10785
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