Title: Digital Technologies for smart cities, climate resilience, and digital finance.
Abstract: The talk will present efforts on how the Singapore Global Centre leverages digital technologies and innovation to tackle complex global development challenges, particularly in emerging markets. As a hub for sustainable development, the Centre focuses on smart cities, climate resilience, and digital finance, creating scalable solutions for governments, businesses, and communities across Asia and beyond. Joe will detail the Centre’s collaborative work with governments, the private sector, academia, and civil society, emphasizing how these partnerships accelerate the adoption of digital tools to drive inclusive growth and progress toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), fostering resilience in vulnerable regions.
Joe Hooper, Director, UN Development Programme Singapore Global Centre to provide examples of technology driven projects with global collaboration network