GovTech

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

Software used to be a support function but it is now the operating model for most organisations

Singapore

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

MAS, IMDA, GovTech and Singapore police to implement new measures

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

Technology firm also announces an expansion of its AI Cloud Takeoff programme

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

This is to make it easier for the public to identify authentic government communications sent via SMSes

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

THE Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has set aside S$30 million to push for research and innovation in green computing, it announced on Wednesday (Jan 24).

About S$400 million will be spent on personal computers and printers, which are replaced about every three years.

Singapore

Government to spend S$3.3 billion on infocomms technology in 2023

MORE than 100,000 personal computers and printers across Singapore’s public service are expected to be replaced in 2023, as part of the Government’s spending on info-communications technology (ICT) th...

Kok Ping Soon will take on the role of SBF CEO-designate from Apr 1 and concurrently serve as GovTech CEO.

Singapore

GovTech chief Kok Ping Soon to become SBF’s new CEO

THE Singapore Business Federation (SBF) will appoint Kok Ping Soon as its new chief executive officer (CEO). He replaces Lam Yi Young, who took on the deputy CEO role at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) in...

Almost 70 per cent - or S$2.6 billion - of the government’s infocommunications technology spending in FY2022 will go towards building new applications and upgrading existing ones, GovTech said.

International

Government to spend S$3.8b in ICT in FY2022; 80% of contracts open to SMEs

THE government will spend S$3.8 billion on infocommunications technology (ICT) procurement this year, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) able to participate in close to 80 per cent of the ...

Customers can scan the Nets QR code or SG QR code at participating stores using the Healthy 365 app.

SGSME

DBS partners GovTech, Nets, HPB to launch digital payment method for healthier F&B options

The initiative will support over 500 F&B merchants islandwide at launch.

International

GovTech appoints Joseph Leong as new chairman

THE Government Technology Agency (GovTech) has appointed a new chairman to its board, said the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SNDGG) on Friday (Apr 1).

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