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

• Main Authors: FOO, See Liang, PAN, Gary
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: 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.; Accounting; Asian Studies; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1665; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1531
• 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 intri...