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What we do
What We Do
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Urban Cyfluence Framework
The Urban Cyfluence Framework offers a new lens for understanding how urban vulnerability operates across physical, digital, and cognitive dimensions. Beyond infrastructure and institutional systems, cities are increasingly exposed to cyber disruption, disinformation, narrative threats, and malign cognitive manipulation that can affect governance, public trust, and decision-making.
Core Dimensions
Physical Dimension
The material foundations of the city, including infrastructure, public services, governance structures, and the built environment through which urban life is organized and maintained.
Digital Dimension
The technological and data-driven systems that increasingly shape urban operations, including platforms, networks, digital services, and cyber environments that influence how cities function.
Cognitive Dimension
The informational and perceptual space in which narratives, disinformation, trust, and public interpretation shape how people understand the city, respond to risk, and relate to institutions.
Why It Matters
Cities are no longer shaped only by what happens on the ground.
More than ever, life in urban centers is shaped by what moves through digital systems, information environments, and networked platforms. Urban resilience today depends on the ability to respond not only to physical disruption, but also
to information-based threats and cognitive challenges.
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Institutional Network
Building an Interdisciplinary Network
Urban Cyfluence is building an interdisciplinary network across universities and research institutions working on urban studies, digital governance, cybersecurity, resilience, and information environments.
Collaboration
We welcome collaboration through:
A variety of formats to build stronger connections across research, policy,
and interdisciplinary practice.
Indonesia
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Indonesia University
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BINUS University
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Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency
Malaysia
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Monash University Malaysia
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Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
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Universiti of Malaya
Vietnam
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Institute of Smart City and Management
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Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
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Universiti of Malaya
