Additional Resources for AQ on Modern Cities

SG Green Plans 2030

https://www.greenplan.gov.sg/targets

Also, the Singapore Green Plan 2030 has five key pillars, being "City in Nature", "Sustainable Living", "Energy Reset", "Green Economy" and "Resilient Future". They will be enabled by a Green Government and Green Citizenry.

Smart Nation—key pillars and overview

https://www.smartnation.gov.sg/about-smart-nation/transforming-singapore/

Data incidents in Singapore’s public sector on the rise, 182 recorded in 2022

https://str.sg/iiLz

Public Sector Data Security Review Committee publishes annual updates on its data security efforts. The committee was set up in 2019 to review how the authorities secure and protect citizens’ data, after a spate of cyber-security breaches, including Singapore’s worst data breach involving 1.5 million SingHealth patients’ data in June 2018.

Privacy issues regarding Trace Together

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/11/1016004/singapore-tracetogether-contact-tracing-police/

Despite what ministers had previously said, Singaporean law meant it had been possible for law enforcement to use TraceTogether data all along. The revelations triggered public anger and criticism, not necessarily because Singaporeans are particularly privacy conscious—in fact, state surveillance is largely normalised in the country—but because people felt they’d been subjected to a bait-and-switch. Many people had reservations about TraceTogether when it was first launched, and only began using it in large numbers after the government indicated that it would soon become mandatory. 

Digital Divide/ Inequality

https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/2021/11/24/from-digital-exclusion-to-universal-digital-access-in-singapore/

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the ever-widening digital divide in Singapore. There exists the problem of digital exclusion in the country. Vulnerable Singapore communities currently experience digital exclusion, and solutions are needed to achieve equitable access to necessary digital resources.

Students from low-income households, low-income adults, the elderly, and migrant workers are the communities that have been particularly affected by the problem of digital exclusion. This problem has only been made more apparent after the accelerated adoption of several digital technologies and platforms in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The communities have been digitally excluded from three key areas: access to computing devices, the internet, and digital literacy skills.