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GovTech

Technology
COMMENTARY

Who is accountable when an AI agent decides?

2026-07-20T23:00:00.000Z
GovTech says that its two-year workforce transformation, resulting in the retrenchment of 93 employees in its first phase, reflects a fundamental shift in how it develops and manages technology. 
Singapore
BT EXPLAINS

Why organisations like GovTech are moving from projects to products 

2026-07-20T07:25:43.000Z
The restructuring reflects GovTech’s own operating needs as it adjusts to the broader changes in the technology sector, PSD said in a statement.
Singapore

GovTech restructuring not part of a broad-based exercise across public service: PSD

2026-07-17T11:04:41.000Z
It might be tempting to take GovTech’s layoffs as a sign of economic trouble, but its detailed explanation should dispel such attempts at generalisation.
Opinion & Features
COMMENTARY

GovTech layoffs: ‘No one is safe’ or ‘No one is to blame’?

2026-07-16T23:00:00.000Z
GovTech was established in October 2016 and has since developed widely used digital services such as Singpass.
Economy & Policy

GovTech retrenches 93 staff in first phase of agency’s 2-year workforce transformation 

2026-07-15T10:30:00.000Z
AI has lowered the cost of the last mile, the internal tools, workflow engines and integration layers that used to need a dedicated squad and a year or more to build something.
Technology
COMMENTARY

Buy or build software? Firms need to look at control, reversibility and risk

2026-06-22T23:00:00.000Z
Victims in Singapore lost S$456.4 million to nearly 20,000 scams in the first half of the year.
Singapore

Scam mules to be restricted from banking, phone and Singpass services from October

2025-09-17T07:00:00.000Z
Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo revealed that approximately one-third of Singapore’s 150,000 public officers now regularly use the government’s AI chatbot, Pair, to enhance their productivity, writing and research.
Companies & Markets

GovTech partners Google Cloud to trial agentic AI usage in public sector

2025-08-28T12:02:14.000Z
The government has also partnered SMS aggregators and all telecommunications service providers to prevent the “gov.sg” sender ID from being spoofed.
Singapore

All government SMSes to come from a single ‘gov.sg’ sender ID by Jul 1

2024-06-13T10:00:00.000Z
Carbon emissions from ICT infrastructure, such as data centres (pictured), could grow if not managed.
Economy & Policy

IMDA launches S$30 million initiative for green computing research

2024-01-24T01:30:00.000Z
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