Singapore

JACQUELINE Poh, chief executive officer designate of new government technology agency GovTech, has her work cut out for her.

To create a national operating system for not one or 10, but 100 million "smart objects" in the next five years is just one of her undertakings, outlined last week by Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation initiative, at tech conference InnovFest UnBound.