Saturday 27th June is the UN’s Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSME) Day. Small businesses are the heart of any economy. That’s especially true in Southeast Asia, where millions of people rely on work in the informal employment, daily wage and micro enterprise sectors. ...
This week we’re celebrating World Health Day 2021 and we couldn’t ignore the effect that the pandemic has had on mental health. That mental toll, brought about by economic, social...
On today’s show we look at an innovative and pioneering programme from Think City, in association with Citi Foundation, designed to build healthy communities and improve the physical, mental and...
Last week we talked to Aishwariya Krishna Kumar about Think City’s role in establishing NGOhub’s Homeless Services Registry. This week we speak to Joel Goh, a senior Analyst at Think City, about the growing role of realtime and near-realtime data in helping to shape urban policies and strategies and to provide instant feedback to make those policies more reflexive and adaptable. ...
This week we’re continuing the work-based theme and discuss the Malaysia Business Community Pulse Check Report, the result of a Think City Survey. An overview of the community-level effects of COVID-19 on individual Malaysian businesses in 2020, we speak to one of the report’s analysts, Joel Goh, senior manager and data specialist at Think City, about the report, its findings and its future. ...
Once offered as a perk, remote working is increasingly being looked at by companies as a way to boost employee wellbeing, to increase productivity and to potentially reduce costs. Which raises an interesting question for cities: if people no longer have to live where they work, what will cities have to offer to retain or attract them? The Citymaker speaks to strategist, speaker and writer Lauren Razavi, a future work specialist and experienced nomad about global natives and the future of the work from anywhere movement. ...
On this week’s Reflexive City we have an exclusive interview with legendary Malaysian writer and filmmaker Amir Muhammad about his role in the UNDP, MIGHT, Universiti Malaya and Think City...
As we trade a harrowing 2020 for a hopeful 2021, we look at one of the few bright spots of the last year: the renewed sense of conversation between the...
Matt and Maya begin to look forward to 2021 and outline the rising popularity of plant-based meat alternatives like the Impossible Burger as part of a healthier diet and as a more sustainable way for the global food industry to meet the world’s growing protein needs. On the flip side, they also discuss the emerging Ghost Kitchens phenomenon and how it can provide coworking food preparation spaces and entrepreneurial cultivation services for food startups, particularly within underprivileged communities. ...
As we head Into the final month of this strange year, we’re changing up the format of the next few shows to bring you some of the major stories that have marked or Inspired us this year. This week, the role that new working practices have played in keeping us safe from the coronavirus in 2020, and how those same safeguards may be used against us in the future....
Why do we behave like noisy neighbours online? The solution is a radical one: that we make the digital world more like the physical one. That we slow it down and introduce friction....
Continuing our theme of sustainable cities In conjunction with UN Habitat’s World Cities Report 2020,...
REXKL is an iconic downtown landmark in KL, and, in its old life as Shaw Brothers’ REX Cinema, it’s a nostalgic nod to Saturday afternoons spent watching the Hollywood blockbusters...
On today’s episode of The Citymaker podcast we talk to Charles Landry, founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2020, about the social innovation, community and generation of trust that are...
We speak to Dr Matt Benson, Think City’s programme Director about the Penang Bay International Ideas Competition and take a look at Sällbo, a Swedish experiment in multigenerational living and...
Launched at the start of 2020, The Curio-city Collective podcast will deliver two engaging episodes every month on the well-being in cities across India. The topics will range from sustainable...