Who's behind CodeForScience Singapore? Here, we are introducing our co-sponsors and co-organizers whom you may already be familiar with. This goes without saying that Team CodeForScience Singapore is grateful for all their support. THANK YOU for allowing this opportunity for student- and professional-developers to get excited to build tools and help make their solutions recognized!

 

 

CO-SPONSORS

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) (www.ida.gov.sg) is committed to growing Singapore into a dynamic global infocomm hub. IDA uses an integrated approach to developing infocommunications in Singapore. This involves nurturing a competitive telecoms market as well as a conducive business environment with programmes and schemes for both local and international companies.

Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet, Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
 

CO-ORGANIZERS

Nanyang Technological University (www.ntu.edu.sg) is a research-intensive public institution with 33,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, and Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences. In 2013, NTU will enroll the first batch of students at its new medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which is set up jointly with Imperial College London. NTU is also home to four world-class autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) and the Institute of Asian Consumer Insight

A fast-growing university with an international outlook, NTU is putting its global stamp on Five Peaks of Excellence: Sustainable Earth, Future Healthcare, New Media, New Silk Road, and Innovation Asia. Besides the main Yunnan Garden campus, NTU also has a satellite campus in Singapore’s science and tech hub, one-north, and is setting up a third campus in Novena, Singapore’s medical district.

National University of Singapore (www.nus.edu.sg) is a leading global university centered in Asia that offers a global approach to education and research, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise. The university has established international collaborations in teaching and research with a range of leading higher education institutions, including Duke University, Harvard University and the German Institute of Science and Technology, and maintains oversea sister colleges in the Northeast and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

NUS’ transformative education includes a broad-based curriculum underscored by multi-disciplinary courses and cross-faculty enrichment, as well as special programmes which allow students to realize their potential. Over 36,000 students from 100 countries further enrich the community with their diverse social and cultural perspectives, making campus life vibrant and exciting.

Singapore Management University (www.smu.edu.sg), since its incorporation in January 2000, has established undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that aim to produce leaders and creative entrepreneurs capable of excelling in a rapidly changing and dynamic world. Set up as Singapore's first publicly-funded autonomous university offering a style of education modeled after The Wharton School, SMU occupies a state-of-the-art city campus located in the heart of Singapore's civic, cultural and business districts.

Today, SMU is home to more than 7,200 students and comprises six schools: the School of Accountancy, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, School of Economics, School of Information Systems, School of Law, and School of Social Sciences. The University also has a dedicated Graduate Studies Office in the Office of Research, a number of institutes and centers of excellence, and provides public and customized programs for working professionals through its Office of Executive Education. Collaborations with leading institutions, including The Wharton School, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, allow SMU to draw on academic and research strengths across all major disciplines.

Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet, Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.