Who are the experts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT5alo6ESg0 From climate change and technological advancements to healthcare decisions and food choices, navigating the complex landscape of risks has become an integral part of our daily lives. The interactions and impact of these risks have also made it increasingly evident how experts and the public differ in their perception and responses. This gap in […]
Bangladesh: Pathway to supporting pregnant women lies in AI adoption
In Bangladesh, around 6,000 women die each year in pregnancy and childbirth. Experts believe that at least half of these are preventable deaths – women who would have lived if they had received adequate medical care. This figure is high, but it represents a huge improvement since the turn of the century, when Bangladesh had […]
Data literacy: a resurgent skill in demand for good reason
https://youtu.be/Z4lIi0WLeqQ Remote working and communicating have become the mainstream channels in which we learn and make decisions. This means that we are always accessing and processing the plethora of online data to responsibly inform decisions. However, we have seen that higher levels of data availability do not automatically lead to higher data usage. Data use […]
Developing strategies to combat fake news proliferation
We have all been exposed to some form of fake news before whether we know it or not. Whether it’s COVID-19 vaccine information or political unrest happening in countries such as Hong Kong, many of us have trouble separating truth from lie. Even with fact-checking tools and credible sources of information, different people have different […]
Technological competency: Building a tool to increase confidence and adoption
A knowledge-based assessment tool has been developed to identify technological risk perception gaps in the built and construction industry, and subsequently design suitable strategies to bridge this gap and help end-users such as project managers be more proficient with technologies. If you’re not confident in using technology, you would probably have some reservations in using it – […]
Navigating big data to understand people’s behaviour in mitigating health risk
Accurate and timely insight and feedback is required for effective policy calibration. As countries across the world race to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, critical insights on the effects of policy on people’s behavior are urgently needed. Assistant Professor Jiang Shaohai (NUS Department of Communications and New Media) successfully employed a novel mixed-methods research framework to […]