advanced prefabrication and building technologies, resource The Jurong Lake District is now being developed in Singapore optimization, and maintenance technology; as a sustainable lakeside destination for both businesses and •Living Environment: The BRI aims to achieve high-quality leisure activities. The strategy that has been adopted for the sustainable urban living by analyzing building acoustics and district is based on the decentralization of commercial activities developing an advanced modeling platform to stimulate to ensure that every citizen can access them on foot. The more sustainable dwellings. principle is similar to that of the ecodistrict model that has emerged in Europe. Every development within the area needs to One of the critical innovations implemented in HDB blocks is conform to the highest regulatory standards (for example, those the system of elevator energy regeneration, which has been for buildings), and the district will be pedestrianized and cyclist introduced in more than 350 HDB buildings. This technology friendly. Today, more than twenty companies and startups are harnesses the elevator’s movement and uses it to produce working on deploying new technologies in the area (SSB, 2015). energy that provides power for other uses in the building. Nanyang Technological University, in partnership with other Lastly, the former workshop for the Building Council Authority actors, is now aiming to become the greenest university campus in Singapore is now known as the first net-zero building in Asia in the world (SSB, 2015). The campus has set ambitious targets (the Zero Net Buildings; SSB, 2015). This building currently to reduce energy consumption, CO emissions, water use, and2 serves as a laboratory for building design innovation and waste intensity by 35 percent by 2020 (Singapore Blueprint, energy efficiency (SSB, 2015). It illustrates Singapore’s desire to 2015). overcome its primary constraint in terms of energy and optimize all its infrastructure to fight against climate change. Such projects are becoming more and more frequent in smart city developments across the world. Indeed, smart labs allow 5.3 Smart labs in Singapore actors to directly test their innovations and focus on design that answers local needs, and they give citizens the opportunity to The Smart Urban Co-Innovation Lab is the first industry-led lab understand and identify potential improvements. Singapore’s in Southeast Asia for the development of smart city solutions. It ability to change its energy mix is constrained by a lack of space, opened in October 2020 in CapitaLand’s 5G-enabled Singapore and the country still has to import energy. Still, these smart Science Park. Industry partners have initially invested up to labs may help the Smart Nation to identify ways of overcoming ten million Singapore dollars with a view to developing and its geographical constraints by optimizing infrastructure and deploying solutions in Singapore and overseas. The lab was living through the development of new technologies. initiated by CapitaLand (a property company) and supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and 6. Governance Enterprise Singapore (ESG). 6.1 Information on local government decision making Some other smart labs have been launched: Kampong Punggol aims to become a recreational facilities and waterfront-living In Singapore, the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office center, and the Jurong Lake District will host a new tourism (SNDGO) is under the authority of the Prime Minister’s Office. Its hub from 2026. They are more urban by nature than purely high remit is to implement the Smart Nation project (Smart Nation tech. Singapore website, 2020). The collective approach of the Smart Nation program aims at driving the digital transformation of the Kampong Punggol was a fishing village back in the nineteenth government. Working closely with the Government Technology century, making it one of Singapore’s oldest settlements. Agency (GovTech), the Smart Nation’s objective is to build long- However, from 1990, the town started to implement newterm capabilities among the public and industry to promote the planning concepts. It embodied a new vision: “A Waterfront digital age and opportunities for all. Town of the 21st Century” (SSB, 2015). Two decades later, in 2010, the HDB started working with Punggol to make the Some of the foundations of the Smart Nation programs can be village become the first ecotown in Singapore (SSB, 2015). The found in the e-Government Masterplan 2011-2015 (eGov2015). HDB took charge of the environmental, social, and economic Singapore’s government aims to shift from “a ‘government to you’ dimensions, and today Punggol is a living laboratory for approach to a ‘government with you’ approach” (eGov2015, 2011). implementing new ideas. Punggol is now promoting sustainable The digitalization of government services will aim to facilitate living among its residents. cocreation and interaction among Singapore’s stakeholders. 157 Quélin and Smadja | HEC PARIS | SMART CITIES | The sustainable program of six leading cities | 2021