The City of the Future Needs a Data Culture that Sees the Visible and Invisible
Opinion - Poon King Wang
The Director of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities reflects on how city planners and policymakers can make more thoughtful use of data to improve decision-making and better people’s lives in meaningful ways.
Behavioural Economics Symposium 2016- Data Science and Behavioural Economics
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Behavioural Economics Symposium that brought together Gary King, Sumit Agarwal, and Daniel Lim to discuss how data science complements behavioural economics in designing better policies.
Knowledge Hub
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Features past issues of Ethos, event materials and CSC-authored case studies and toolkits
Using Data to Create Better Government
Opinion - Diaan-Yi Lin, Vidhya Ganesan
Public agencies in Singapore and elsewhere have already begun to use data analytics to transform public policy thinking and delivery.
Open Government and Public Crowdsourcing in Practice
Article - Jairus Yip
Government efforts to engage citizens in collaborative public initiatives are still in their early stages, but there have been some successes.
Cities, Culture and Happiness
Article - Bruno S. Frey
The arts as a means to enhance individual well-being can have an impact on how culture should be encouraged by policy.
The Digital Social Contract and e-Legitimacy
Opinion - Max Everest-Phillips
New institutions are needed to manage both the potential and risks of digital technologies that will reshape our societies and how they are governed.
Attracting Tech Talent: Start with Culture Redesign
Opinion - Karen Tay
A Singaporean in Silicon Valley argues for new work structures, principles and practices, and incentives that will appeal to the top tech talent we want.
Gearing the Public Service for SG100
Article - Peter Ong
Singapore’s Head of Civil Service charts new directions for the public sector as the nation looks forward to its next decades of growth.
