Singapore Opens Research Centre on Sustainable Urban Farming

NUS’ Research Centre on Sustainable Urban Farming explores high-tech solutions to increase Singapore’s food security; brings together plant and food scientists, engineers, and computer scientists to develop novel urban farming solutions.
HKUST Develops App that Maps COVID-19 Hotspots

CovidInArea integrates and visualises open data from the Department of Health as an easily accessible heatmap, providing a free location-based tool for users to understand their risk due to proximity to the incident places.
Quang Ninh, Vietnam Goes Digital

Quang Ninh has so far provided 1,712 Level-4 online public services out of the 1,832 administrative procedures. The rate of administrative procedure documents received and processed online via the online public service portal reached 62%.
U.S. Prioritises Information Enterprise Modernisation

The U.S. Department of Defence confirmed that modernising its information is a top priority; the State of Connecticut has started an anti-robocall litigation task force, which the other 50 states are joining.
RMIT University to Lead Australia-France Doctoral Training Network

Australian and French academic ties are set to grow stronger following the announcement of AUFRANDE – a five-year partnership that will see R&D in several acute scientific and technological issues including photonics and nanotechnology.