The emergence of major urban threats such as the Covid-19 pandemic, global climate change and ideological polarisation of populations has shown that social resilience is important.
The ability to respond to adversity as a community -- a social unit that lies beyond kinship ties or narrow interest groups -- and prevail or be strengthened, ensures that the welfare of its individual members can be secured in a sustainable way.
In an open and diverse society like Singapore, social networks of horizontal and vertical trust, within and across identities and local geographies, would arguably be key ingredients for fostering this social resilience.
The question is how these types of trust, diverse social networks, and social resilience can be enhanced.
The Institute of Policy Studies of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore ETH Centre (SEC) would like to invite you to a closed-door discussion to consider what current and emerging digital technologies can offer in this critical task of strengthening community ties and social resilience in Singapore.
The discussion will begin with a presentation of the IPS Working Paper that is soon to be published titled, “Decentralised Governance Through Blockchain”.
After a dialogue about the key ideas in the paper, the discussion will then move to one about a research proposal developed by IPS/NUS and SEC to test the comparative effects of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies in facilitating ground-up community-building initiatives.
The driving question of the project is whether these hold the promise of strengthening social resilience of Singaporeans in the heartlands of the country; what are the features of each that might do that best?
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