Crowdsourced Data Helps Cities Fight Litter
Analysing the amounts and composition of litter, combined with information on location, data are giving cities insights for better intervention and messaging strategies.
Thai Banks Using Digitisation to Evolve into Diverse Value-Driven Organisations
In Thailand, many of its major banks have already embarked on a multi-year transformation journey to realise their full potential and take advantage of the opportunities of digitisation.
EXCLUSIVE: Smart Cities Must Think Locally, Partner Globally
Horng Shya Chua, Managing Director, Oracle Singapore, shares an expert opinion on how Smart Cities must think. Digital innovations developed across Southeast Asia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are a testament to the region’s ongoing commitment to building a range of “smart” infrastructure and applications. The Singapore government, already a leader with its cutting-edge […]
How Mapping Technology is Key in the Fight against COVID-19
Geographic information systems, or more commonly known as GIS, is a technology that combines location with real-time or static data. This technology collects, manages, analyses, and shares data to achieve location intelligence. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It can use large data sets from different sources and represent […]
COVID-19: Making Data Speak
Without becoming overly dependent on projections, leaders can use data and analytics to envision beyond the pandemic; scanning for opportunities and challenges to consider how they could address a post-crisis world.
HKU and partners develop big-data-enabled COVID-19 tracker
Differing from usual epidemiological models that rely on historical data or assumptions, the team used real-time data about actual movements focusing on aggregate population flow rather than individual tracking.
Coronavirus technology solutions raise data privacy concerns
Privacy and data protection laws cannot and should not get in the way of government strategy to saving lives. But even at times of crisis, data privacy should still be respected, and frameworks put in place.
GovTech’s fast acting citizen-centric response amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Recognising the importance of getting timely and accurate information, a team of developers at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore developed MaskGoWhere – a website providing information on mask collection points.
The European Commission Releases its Strategy for Data
Built on four pillars, the EU strategy designed to establish policy measures and investments to enable the data economy in Europe for the next five years.
Database for the Provision of Programs and Services to Fisherfolk
Listahan provides concerned stakeholders with a database of poor households as basis in identifying potential beneficiaries of social protection programs and services.
