IfG.CC - The Institute for eGovernment

The vision of eGov 2015 is to be a Collaborative Government that Co-creates and Connects with our People. The masterplan will guide government agencies in the implementation of new ICT programmes in the next five years.

Developed with inputs from the people, private and public sectors, eGov2015 builds on the success of previous e-Government plans. Today, Singapore is recognized by international benchmarking studies such as the World Economic Forum’s Global IT Report and the Waseda University e-Government Ranking. Singapore’s eGovernment projects have also been conferred international awards which includes the Stockholm Challenge Award and the UN Public Service Award. More importantly, citizens and businesses have embraced e-government, with 84 per cent of citizens having transacted electronically with the Government in 2010.

The digital sustainability efforts are in support of the Singapore Green Plan 2030 and the public sector’s commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2045.

Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) have unveiled their first suite of digital sustainability initiatives to green the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.

The Infocomm Security Masterplan will augment current capabilities and develop new capabilities in three key areas - assuring information protection and risk mitigation, situational awareness and contingency planning and in the development of human and intellectual capital, which includes enhancing cyber security awareness among Internet users, the development of professional skills and the promotion of research & development in infocomm security.

Singapore has upgraded its SingPass e-government platform. Starting 5 July, SingPass users will have access to an improved SingPass user interface, mobile-friendly features and upgraded security capabilities with the enhanced system. Launched in 2003, Singapore Personal Access (SingPass) is a gateway to over 200 e-services offered by more than 60 government agencies, enabling users to only have to remember one password when connecting and transacting with the Government. The system is managed by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

Singapore has referred to as on international organisations such because the United Nations (UN) and World Commerce Organisation (WTO) to reform, so worldwide guidelines are in step with cybersecurity and different key digital developments. The Asian nation additionally underscores the necessity for unified cooperation towards COVID-19, which it notes has accelerated “self-defeating” sentiments worldwide together with protectionism and xenophobia.

Continued worldwide cooperation was key to overcoming the influence of the pandemic in addition to to rebuilding, and nations wanted to construct larger belief and study from one another, mentioned Singapore’s Minister for Overseas Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, within the nation’s nationwide assertion on the UN Basic Meeting’s Basic Debate of the 75th session held Saturday.

Speaking Tuesday at the e-Government Summit 2007, a component of the annual Global Entrepolis conference, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore's Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), said the country's public e-services need to be extended to reach more people. This can be achieved by adopting new strategies, the minister said.

A prize of $1,500 will be awarded to the nomination that best redesigns the homepage, topic page and directory of the website. The design brief states that it should be “warm, friendly yet credible”, “resonate with Singaporeans”, use dark colours and resize to fit any device.

Days after a non-governmental organisation filed criminal charges against Indonesia’s State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno for authorising Telkom to build a data centre in Singapore, the minister said the data centre “will not host” Indonesian government data.

Ms Soemarno, who invited top executives from state firms, including Telkom, to an informal breaking of fast at her residence in South Jakarta, said Telkom’s data centre, which is being built with Singtel, was purely to tap Singapore’s potential market.

Singapore will implement facial verification to give SingPass holder access to an array of government and commercial services.

Singapore is one of the leading countries in the world to implement facial recognition technology. The Southeast Asian country is going to become the first country in the world to use facial verification for government benefits under its national identity scheme.

The agreement was signed Tuesday at the sidelines of Oman's leading IT and Telecom Show, COMEX 2014 by Hamad Khamis Al Amri, Undersecretary of Oman's Manpower Ministry, ITA chief executive officer Dr Salim Al Ruzaiqi and Group International group director Tan Lark Yang.

These cities have been ranked according to ICT maturity and development and all three of them were successful in meeting many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT.

The partnership will focus on water and port management, and infrastructure development, K Shanmugam, Singapore’s foreign minister, has told India’s regional press.

Information and Communications Acting Minister George Yeo sealed the agreement with Jordan's Minister of Planning Bassem Awadallah at the Istana on Tuesday.

They'll collaborate in public service infocomm and eGovernment over the next three years.

These include ICT projects, such as enterprise architecture, cloud computing and project management.

Singapore and the Chinese city ink multiple MOU to ease cross-border access to market opportunities, including "mutual recognition" of both cities' digital identity regimes and plans to launch an SMB platform -- operational next month -- to connect buyers and sellers between Asean and China.

Singapore and the Chinese city of Shenzhen have pushed forward with several smart city initiatives that include the launch of an Asian SME (small and midsize enterprise) hub to connect businesses and facilitate transactions between Asean and China. Eight Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) have been signed with the aim to drive digital connectivity as well as ease cross-border access to market opportunities in Southeast Asia and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Elevating bilateral relations between the two countries up a step, the MoU was sealed Kim Seang-Tae, president, national information society agency, Republic of Korea and RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay, CEO, infocomm development authority of Singapore.

According to an official statement from IDA Singapore, the MOU will further promote knowledge sharing of ICT in government and economic sectors for trade, investment, business and technology ventures between UAE and Singapore’s industries. In particular, the coordination of Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network is one key area of ICT adoption between IDA Singapore and TRA.

It is part of the new masterplan of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Ministry of Finance to drive innovation.

It has three key thrusts.