U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership
FOLLOW US ON X
TO STAY UP TO DATE
WITH WHAT’S GOING ON!
Promoting sustainable, resilient, and inclusive solutions to advance urban quality of life in Southeast Asian Nations.
Latest
USASCP Support Enables Plastics Recycling Company Growth
Ms. Viengvilay Phimmasone, co-founder and director of Patihoub, stands with three employees and USASCP Program Manager Ms. Helen Santiago Fink, at the Patihoub factory. The walls enclosing the factory are made of Patihoub’s primary product, recycled plastic boards. USASCP Program Manager, Helen Santiago Fink, visited Patihoub, a plastics recycling company, in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR.…
November 1, 2024 – November 4, 2024
Department of Transportation Smart Mobility Program: Phnom Penh site visit
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
In fall 2024, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will conduct a planning site visit to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with colleagues from Cambodian municipal transportation authorities and public works officials with their colleagues and counterparts from their partner city of Boston, Massachusetts. With this program, DOT is engaging U.S. cities and states to test and learn…
November 11, 2024 – November 14, 2024
U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) – Digital Economy
Singapore
The U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) will host a Digital Economy workshop with in-person training sessions from November 11 to 15, 2024, in Singapore. The course aims to strengthen Southeast Asian government officials’ understanding of the regulatory landscape for the digital economy at both the regional and global levels. This will enable the region…
December 2, 2024 – December 6, 2024
U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) – Molecular Epidemiology
Singapore
The U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) will host a Molecular Epidemiology workshop with in-person training sessions from December 2 to 6, 2024, in Singapore. The course seeks to equip participants working in the tuberculosis field with a comprehensive understanding of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, in particular whole genome sequencing (WGS), and targeted NGS…
February 24, 2025 – February 28, 2025
U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) – Green Buildings: Sustainable Datacenters & AI
Singapore
The U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) will host a Green Buildings: Sustainable Datacenters and AI workshop with in-person training sessions from February 24 to 28, 2025, in Singapore. The course aims to analyze AI in public policy and development, and data privacy and security considerations. It will also include a focus on the application…
March 10, 2025 – March 14, 2025
U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) – Cybersecurity
Singapore
The U.S.-Singapore Third Country Training Program (TCTP) will host a Cybersecurity workshop with in-person training sessions from March 10 to 14 2025, in Singapore. This course aims to be a complementary effort to the existing ASEAN initiatives and to provide a platform for sharing best practices nationally, regionally, and internationally on cybersecurity.
The U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership seeks to meet the varied challenges of rapid urbanization and help improve the lives of people in the region through collaboration.
The U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) is a collaboration between the U.S. public and private sectors with the 26 pilot cities of the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN). Programs and activities are developed to promote engagement in smart sustainable city solutions and to advance the digital and circular economies in ASEAN cities, share best practices between U.S. cities and their ASEAN counterparts, and strengthen regional cybersecurity at the sub-national level.
Recent Program
Integrated Urban Services
Systems integration project to educate stakeholders on circular economy approaches to enhance resource recovery and reuse and on opportunities to develop integrated models of basic urban services and food provision.
