Singapore: Smart City, Smart State

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Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive advancedeconomies in the world. But can italso serve as a model forother advanced economies as well as for the emerging world Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder providesclear answers in his new, groundbreaking book that looks at how Singaporesgovernment has harnessed information technology, data, and a focus on innovative, adaptive governance tobecome a model smart city, smart state.

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"Kent E. Calder is director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and 2016 Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He taught for twenty years at Princeton University, where he is an emeritus faculty member, while serving also as special adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan (19972001) and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (198993 and 1996). Calder has also taught at Harvard University, Seoul National University, and the University of Yangon, Myanmar.
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