Tag: B40

How To Build A Spectacular Lockdown Support Network
Community | COVID-19 |

How To Build An Effective Lockdown Support Network

With Malaysia experiencing record high numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, the country is entering an extended period of social and economic lockdowns aimed at curtailing and controlling the spread of the disease. As Malaysians embrace living, working and socialising from home once again, we speak to Mary Carty, a strategic consultant, and mentor is one of the founders of AwakenHub, a networking platform and resource centre for female entrepreneurs in Ireland and across the Irish diaspora. ...

A Citi for Everyone | Urban |

Staying Aktif with K2K

In the wake of our piece celebrating Hari K2K, a showcase of the Kita untuk Kita (K2K) programme’s community achievements at PPR Hicom Kampung Baru in Shah Alam, we wanted to return to an interview we conducted for The Citymaker podcast with Think City’s Resilience Lead, Uta Dietrich a few weeks ago about K2K Aktif Bersama, Think City’s active lifestyle pilot programme in partnership with Citi Foundation. ...

The Knowledge that Creates Better Cities
Climate | Community | Heritage | Urban |

The Understanding that Creates Better Cities

We're in the middle of an increasingly complicated and contentious conversation about data, its ownership and its uses. As individuals, we increasingly see the kind of data gathered by big technology firms as a threat to our privacy, especially as the commercialization and commodification of that data has given rise to new forms of governance and economic power, especially in cities, as outlined in the theory of surveillance capitalism devised by the social psychologist and Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff....

Period Poverty
Community | Urban |

Period Poverty: The Real Pain of Menstruation

Tam Xueh Wei

Period poverty is defined as a menstruating person’s lack of access to safe and hygienic use of sanitary menstrual goods. This issue then leads to problems such as missing out on school, being exposed to a health risk, and facing shame within their communitie...