SMU forges partnerships to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Vietnam
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SMU forged two new partnerships to share its experience in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship with Vietnam, as well as to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship networks between Singapore and Vietnam.
Smart cities, cybersecurity, e-commerce, trade facilitation in focus at 32nd ASEAN Summit
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Recognising the importance of capitalising on the opportunities presented by the digital age, and the need to promote cross-border electronic commerce (eCommerce) in the region, the states are establishing an ASEAN Agreement on E-commerce.
Singapore’s Global Innovation Alliance network expands to Bangkok
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GIA
Bangkok, led by Enterprise Singapore, will make it easier for Singapore
startups to access the market for business opportunities, drive partnerships
between Singapore and Thai startups to co-create innovative solutions and build
a pipeline of talent for entrepreneurship and innovation.
Precision-targeted marketing through big data enabled machine learning
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Traditional systems could no longer be used with the increased volumes of data coming in. Novantas also needed to process and analyse a greater variety of data, such as audio from call center recordings and unstructured text in payments transactions data.
NTU researchers develop technology to reduce noise pollution through open windows
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The device detects incoming noise even before it reaches the
window, computes its attributes, and emits a countering sound or “anti-noise”. The
researchers are working with government agencies in Singapore to further
improve the technology to make it viable for commercial and residential
applications.
EXCLUSIVE – OpenGov recognises 7 government bodies in the Philippines for excellence in digital transformation
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The OpenGov Recognition of Excellence 2018 recognised 7 government agencies and city from the Philippines for improving the lives of citizens through the use of digital technology.
Digital health and big data highlighted in Victoria’s Melbourne Biomedical Precinct Strategic Plan
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Melbourne Biomedical Precinct Strategic Plan outlines 3 future directions: (1) implementing digital clinical systems, (2) improving use of health and biomedical data, and (3) mining data for impact.
Chinese Government pushing for integration of Internet technologies with healthcare
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The
top two levels of hospitals within the three-tier hospital system will be
encouraged to provide online services, including consultation, reservation and
test result inquiry. The
health authority intends to issue detailed online hospital regulations by May.
Australia opens new research hub to drive technological advances in medical devices
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The ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Advanced Manufacturing of Medical Devices will focus on research partnerships that will develop cost-competitive technologies for the rapid production of medical devices to improve health of Australians and grow the country’s medical devices industry.
ASEAN leaders issue statement on cybersecurity cooperation
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In recognition of the growing urgency and sophistication of transboundary cyber threats, ASEAN leaders issued a statement on cybersecurity cooperation.
A*Star Talent Search 2018 recognises research excellence in cardiology, gene therapy and mathematics
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The A*Star Talent Search (ATS) and Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) are flagship science outreach programmes for students to showcase their research work.
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore proposes enhanced drone regulatory framework
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A UA pilot licensing
framework will be introduced for certain UA operations to ensure
that UA pilots have a minimum competency level. CAAS will also introduce a UA training organisation
framework to
support the proposed UA pilot licensing.
DEPA Thailand, UOB Thai and The Finlab join hands to help Thai SMEs with digital transformation
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Selected SMEs will be guided by DEPA, UOB (Thai) and The
FinLab as they identify problem statements in their business and processes that
can be optimised with technology solutions. The FinLab will then curate and
shortlist suitable technology solutions and help the participating SMEs with
the pilot implementation of the solutions.
Animated data visualisations on new website show human impact on the planet
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It combines satellite imagery from NASA with over 300 free,
open-source geospatial datasets from the World Bank, the UNHCR, Berkeley
Earth, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Climate Central,
S&P Global, Kudelski, the International Renewable Energy Agency and WWF, and
others.
Indian Government launches programme to support deep tech innovation and commercialisation in critical areas
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Applicants showing capability, intent, and potential to commercialisse
technologies will be awarded grants up to Rs. 10 million (US$150,000).
Up to a total of 50 grants in fiscal year 2018-19 may be given out. The grant support will be supplemented by
mentoring, handholding, incubating and other support as neededat various stages
of commercialisation.
Geoscience Australia conducts aviation trial on satellite-based augmentation system
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Airservices Australia will receive up to A$310,000 in funding from the Australian and New Zealand governments to fit SBAS technology into aircraft and testing it across regional Australia.
From genomic data to precision medicine via machine learning
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Inova had generated petabytes of genomic and patient data, and needed to provide a way to process that data into a single data infrastructure. It could take weeks and months to pull data together for researchers with its previous data warehouse.
China to use AI and drones in the conservation of the Great Wall
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Drones will inspect the Great Wall and collect high-resolution images for 3D modelling and analysis to identify cracks and other damages that need to be repaired.
China accelerating development of supportive policies for smart car industry
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China will create its own smart car standards, traffic rules
and laws and regulations on safety. The government is also looking into regulations
on accident-incurred liabilities. Design guidance will be provided for smart
cars and standards will be set for test grounds.
Victoria upgrades e-waste collection and storage facilities ahead of e-waste ban
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The upgrade promotes better e-waste management and ensures 98% of Victorians in metropolitan areas will be within a 20-minute drive of a disposal point.
Singapore and Zhejiang deepen collaboration in urban solutions, e-commerce, wholesale trade and logistics
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Singapore companies signed 14 agreements in the urban
solutions, e-commerce, wholesale trade and logistics sectors. These are in line
with Zhejiang’s priorities in urban-rural development reforms, industrial
upgrading, trade liberalisation and e-commerce to maintain its economic
competitiveness.
Singapore and Vietnam establish partnerships for Fintech innovation and banking supervision
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The MOU on financial innovation will facilitate joint innovation projects, help Fintech companies better understand the regulatory regimes, and encourage information sharing on emerging Fintech trends and developments.
Role of AI in Singapore’s Smart Nation plan shared at SMU AI conference
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Representatives from Smart Nation & Digital Government Office under PMO and AI Singapore iterated the role of AI in Singapore’s Smart Nation plan at SMU inaugural AI Conference.
India establishing nationwide Time Stamping & Time Synchronisation network
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The nationwide Time Stamping & Time Synchronisation
network will synchronise all telecom networks with Indian Standard Time. This
will lead to better efficiency of the telecom networks and help uniquely
identify the user (subscriber) of network on tracing of the IP address and
other parameters, helping analyse cyber events for security purposes.
New initiative to fast-track Fintech patent application-to-grant process in Singapore
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Under this initiative, Fintech patents will be granted in as
quickly as six months, compared to at least two years for normal applications. It
will complement the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)’s S$225 million
Financial Sector Technology and Innovation (FSTI) funding scheme.
How A*STAR is enhancing the research ecosystem in Singapore: ExaNet
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ExaNet provides a dedicated super-highway for researchers to collaborate
both within A*STAR and with external partners such as NTU, NUS, SingAREN, NSCC
and overseas research institutions.
HKU AI startup receives Grand Award of Hong Kong ICT Awards 2018
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The award-winning multilingual AI customer service system was developed with the technical focus in Chinese dialects processing and analysis to help enterprises conduct quality assurance and data mining in their call centres.
EXCLUSIVE – Enabling Digital Transformation within the Philippine Government: Report on the Philippine OpenGov Leadership Forum 2018
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At the Philippine OpenGov Leadership Forum 2018, over 250 government officials and senior technology executives from across the Philippine Government came together to discuss the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation.
DTA releases new tools and resources to help the Australian government build better digital services
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This includes beta version of a redesigned dta.gov.au website, an Australian Government Design System a catalogue of code and detailed components that designers and developers can use to deliver sites and services quickly and efficiently and refreshed Digital Guides that will provide support to meet the Digital Service Standard.
Singapore forges partnerships at the world’s largest industrial technology trade show in Germany
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Enterprise Singapore is leading a delegation of 39 companies on business mission to Germany and to participate in the Singapore Pavilion at Hannover Messe.