U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership
Promoting sustainable, resilient, and inclusive solutions to advance urban quality of life in Southeast Asian Nations.
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Interview with Mayor Pomanto of Makassar, Indonesia
The Mayor of Makassar, Indonesia, Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto (also known as Danny Pomanto) and his team, visited Washington D.C. on July 24th, 2022. The U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State’s U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership jointly support pilot activities integrating new technologies, research, and industry to bring research and innovation to life…
World Cities Summit – Singapore July 31- August 3
As Southeast Asian cities continue to encounter challenges associated with rapid urbanization, climate change, and economic challenges, increasing opportunities to become smarter, more sustainable cities, rely on working in partnership with local and national governments, multi-sector stakeholders, international partners and the private sector. On July 31, 2022, at the Singapore World Cities Summit, the U.S.-ASEAN…
Green Buildings Innovation Program
The Green Buildings Innovation Program is open for nominations. This program aims to advance smart, sustainable city collaboration and to discuss green building standards, industry practices, and innovation in ASEAN. Nomination forms can be found here: https://go.gov.sg/gbp2022
USASCP – Earth Day 2022
The Earth Day 2022 theme is “invest in our planet”. Our implementing partners are working hard behind the scenes year-round on projects that invest in our planet through sustainable building, efficient transportation, investment in a circular economy, among many other efforts. We’d like to take some time to highlight the ongoing projects that a few…
Singapore Shoe Waste Recycling Ecosystem
Leading materials science company Dow and national sports agency Sport Singapore partner to establish a permanent waste collection ecosystem to support a circular economy in Singapore. Through this initiative, used shoes are collected to create sports infrastructure including jogging tracks, fitness corners, and playgrounds. The rubber soles of the shoes are ground into rubber granules…
U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership Grantee Concludes Successful Hospital Digitization Project
The $98,750 grant from EAP/MLA enabled local NGO First Womentech Asia to launch hospital management software in 20 private hospitals and clinics in Cambodia’s three Smart Cities (Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Battambang). The program trained over 800 health professionals and digitized more than 100,000 health records. The Ambassador and Health Ministry Secretary of State…
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.
