Singapore's vision of a smart nation

• Main Authors: FOO, See Liang, PAN, Gary
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Smart city; information and communications technology; IT plan; Singapore; Asian Studies; Infrastructure; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1531; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2558/viewcontent/1651085.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.