Channeling our eco anxiety into impetus for action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhNehMSV5Xg The effects of climate change may go beyond degradation of the planet’s health and natural resources. Beyond the visible and tangible environmental impacts such as more extreme weather, climate change has a deeper, unseen impact on people’s mental wellbeing. This phenomenon, known as “eco anxiety” or the chronic fear of impending environmental doom, has made […]
IPUR inks new partnership to support public service transformation in Mongolia
IPUR signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Mongolia Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs to support public service transformation in Mongolia. The MoU was inked on 8 July 2022 on the sidelines of a visit by Prime Minister of Mongolia Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai to NUS. Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene, together with Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS […]
AI for social good: pregnancy monitoring
In collaboration with Bangaldesh Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme of the ICT Division and Cabinet Division of Bangladesh, IPUR will be conducting AI related research to support the Bangladeshi Government in the development of policies promoting and enabling AI policy frameworks and building AI capabilities for social good in pregnancy monitoring. Specifically, IPUR will be investigating the […]
How our food consumption habits can affect greenhouse gas emission levels
Our food consumption habits are a major contributor to climate change and in particular, greenhouse gas emission levels. Without a substantial shift in global diets, scientists predict that the world is unlikely to achieve targets set out under the Paris Agreement. Inspired by this complex yet relatively unknown issue in the fight against climate change, […]
MoU signed to promote data-driven innovations in the public sector of Mongolia
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR) at the National University of Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Academy of Governance (NAOG) of Mongolia to promote data-driven innovations in the public sector of Mongolia. The signatory from IPUR was its Director, Professor Koh Chan Ghee, […]
2021 KDD Workshop on Understanding<br>Public Perceptions for Applied Data Science
The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) organised its flagship conference KDD 2021 virtually from August 14 – 18, 2021. In conjunction with KDD 2021, the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR) and the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (KPC4IR) organised the […]
Why you should build your dataviz toolset early
If you’re reading this blog post, chances are that you are 1) an early career risk professional and 2) considering whether you should learn more about data visualization. This blog is meant to provide three reasons why you should, from a fellow early career risk professional who started out the journey herself a few years […]
Reacting to the times – Risk Quotient 2020 jointly hosted by IPUR goes virtual
COVID-19 has dramatically and drastically impacted lives and changed the way individuals work, learn, commute, and socialise. The pandemic has also accelerated the use of emerging technologies to mitigate damage and disruption to society. These words by Professor Koh Chan Ghee, IPUR Director, summed up the importance and objective of the latest installment of the […]
An Introduction to Climate Change
Global temperatures are increasing at an unprecedented rate – we have seen them rise by almost 2°C from preindustrial levels. This phenomenon known commonly as “global warming” has wide ranging effects and has been attributed to the increased frequency and severity of environmental catastrophes such as floods and droughts. 2°C may not seem like much, but […]
What is the biggest risk in your life?
If someone were to come up to you and ask, “What is the single, biggest worry in your life?” What would your response be? Finances? The environment? Or perhaps your health? This question was the crux of a first-ever global study to understand attitudes about the most pressing risks faced and feared by individuals in […]