by Amy Weinfurter | Dec 19, 2018 | Climate
Data-Driven Yale Director Dr. Angel Hsu at the COP24 side event: Making climate action more transparent and ambitious, Katowice, 4.12.2018. © German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), CC BY-ND 2.0. This Saturday marked the...
by Angel Hsu | Dec 14, 2018 | Featured
While the word ‘blockchain’ has become synonymous with the buzz surrounding the ‘bitcoin’ craze, distributed ledger technologies have a wide range of potential applications, including the possibility to track city, region, and company pledges to reduce emissions,...
by Amy Weinfurter | Dec 13, 2018 | Big data, Urban Index
“I think data is power — but, more importantly, data is latent power. To actually unlock it is a tricky exercise.” These comments, from UN Habitat’s Robert Kehew, helped kick off the launch of the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) on December 6...
by Tina Huang | Dec 12, 2018 | China, China Sights, Urban Index
Sustainable Public Transportation, in particular, public transit system developments, is at the forefront of cities’ efforts to foster inclusive, sustainable development. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals – which set global targets to guide the world’s...
by Diego Manya Gutierrez | Dec 12, 2018 | Urban Index
Article originally published by the World Economic Forum, and authored by Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Yale-NUS College, and Kim Samuel, Founder, Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness. Translated into Spanish by Diego Manya. Las ciudades...
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