How smart systems enable more liveable cities

[2017-01-19 Thu 18:46:19] speaker: Tan Kok Yam event: SMU Panel

Three parts of a smart cities.

Smart things, the visible parts

• speed sensors on the roads

Using data to improve services, the invisible

• where best to build an overhead bridge
• improving care standards
• make visible and public for informed public discourse

Matching supply and demand

• govtech app to find the nearest person with CPR skills
• motivated the developers to learn CPR themselves

Three challanges faced by Singapore.

Multi disciplinary nature

• bring together data experts and domain experts

Job creation and job destruction

New risks and trade-offs that needs to be managed

• privacy
• cybersecurity
• trusting an autonomous car