New Zealand Promotes Innovation in Payments Industry
New Zealand underlines the importance of digital innovation in their payment industry to escalate its competitiveness in facing global substantive changes.
Supporting Caregivers with Tech
With Singapore’s rapidly ageing population, the number of people requiring care will increase, meaning more people will be under pressure as caregivers – an issue tech can help alleviate.
Exclusive! Singapore OpenGov Leadership Forum Day 1
Delegates discuss how technology can be deployed to solve pressing issues and deliver better citizen services.
EXCLUSIVE: Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer on Singapore’s Smart Nation Journey
Chan Cheow provides insights on how Singapore leverages digital tech to improve the lives of citizens and businesses, especially during a crisis.
New Vulnerability Rewards Programme to test Resilience of Critical Government Systems
GovTech’s new Vulnerability Rewards Programme – a bug-hunting initiative – offers up to $5,000 for ethical hackers to find security vulnerabilities in public sector systems.
Locking in the COVID-19 Digitalisation Gains
The past year has been marked by discontinuities and disruption in all aspects of our lives – work, home, school and social. In many ways, it has been a period of profound learning, adjustment and adaptation.
Smart Cities around the world – Helsinki
Helsinki has plenty in common with Singapore – the two cities have consistently ranked amongst the top 5 smartest cities in the world.
New SafeEntry Gateway developed by GovTech for an improved and seamless check-in
The new SafeEntry Gateway enables contactless detection of both App and Token to facilitate seamless check-ins. It will also help to check that the TT Token battery has not run out.
Refreshed Singpass Brings with it 5 New Features
Besides the obvious logo change, the team has been working on making the app even more feature-packed and useful with key transactional pages available in Singapore’s four official languages by end of this year.
Refreshed Singpass reflects improved services and drives digital innovations with private sector
Singpass now offers residents greater convenience and accessibility when transacting with the government and private sector, both online and in person.
Smart Cities around the world – Estonia
Estonia punches above its weight when it comes to digital adoption, and is often lauded as one of the most digitally advanced countries in the world.
Smart Cities around the world – Amsterdam
Smart cities have numerous benefits, including reducing wastage, saving on manpower costs, being environmentally sustainable, and of course, improves the lives of its citizens by making government services either more accessible or more efficient.
Singapore government agency GovTech wins Gold in the Marketing Excellence Awards 2020
GovTech outperformed many strong private sector brands such to win the Gold for their LifeSG marketing and communications campaign.
Postman.gov.sg – Putting the ‘mass’ in mass communications
Postman.gov.sg is by GovTech’s Open Government Products together with the team at the Ministry of Communication and Information under the leadership of Minister Iswaran to address updating citizens with bite-size information rapidly and at scale.
Digital Health Passport joins the fight against COVID-19
Accredify builds on GovTech’s OpenAttestation framework for HealthCert – a verifiable travel credential standard – to enhance the safety and efficiency of travel for all outbound travellers and immigration authorities.
Drones that keep Singapore going
In collaboration with In Singapore, some heroes are comparatively small, silent creatures that operate behind the scenes to keep Singapore running. We’re talking of course, about drones. Since their inception, various agencies in Singapore have been trying to use them to make tasks easier, safer and more efficient. Let’s take a look […]
“Sign with SingPass” service provides greater convenience in documentation signing
“Sign with SingPass” allows SingPass users to use the SingPass Mobile app to digitally sign an electronic document and follows the “SingPass Face Verification” service.
SingPass – Singapore’s national digital identity
A cornerstone of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative, the national digital identity ecosystem is critical in achieving Singapore’s Smart Nation vision of delivering significant benefits to citizens and businesses.
Before you #TraceTogether, the team first #TestsTogether
One of the mistaken impressions that people have is that TraceTogether is a static programme. It’s not. We also urge users to continue using SafeEntry and TraceTogether, which are complementary products – and not substitutes.
A conversation with Bertrand Lee, GovTech’s Smart Nation Fellow
Chatbots tread a fine line between cold efficiency and the human touch and have the potential to make a significant impact in the lives of many Singaporeans, by improving the way citizens engage with government services.
SupplyAlly – Simplifying Nationwide Distribution
By utilising cloud technologies on our Government Commercial Cloud framework, Sally is able to run different distribution campaigns simultaneously with the use of unique QR codes.
GovTech licenses “SPOTON” software to SMEs & NPO to produce smart thermal scanners
As more venues reopen over the next few months, the public must remain vigilant and safeguard itself from COVID-19.
TraceTogether and SafeEntry enhancements announced in preparation for further opening of the economy
Nation-wide distribution of TraceTogether Tokens will start from 14 September and the aim is to have the distribution completed by November.
Government Technology Agency Awards Tender for Further Batches of TraceTogether Tokens
The Government Technology Agency has awarded the tender to design and manufacture further batches of the TraceTogether Tokens to two bidders – a consortium comprising Siix Singapore Pte Ltd and iWOW Pte Ltd; and PCI Private Limited. Design and Production of TraceTogether Token Drawing from the experience gained in producing the initial batch, GovTech will […]
GovTech cybersecurity specialists zero in on zero-day vulnerabilities
Find out what zero-day vulnerabilities are and how white-hat hackers at GovTech’s Cyber Security Group are hunting them down to keep government systems safe.
How GovTech developed fit for purpose temperature scanners – Part 3
This temperature scanner developed by GovTech’s Smart Nation Platform Solutions (SNPS) team combines hardware and software for the best of both worlds.
How GovTech developed fit for purpose temperature scanners – Part 2
As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens around the world, Singapore is shoring up its efforts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
How GovTech developed fit for purpose temperature scanners – Part 1
Take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Sensors and Internet of Things (SIOT) team at GovTech invented a system that automatically measures a person’s temperature.
Insights to the development of GovTech’s various Smart Temperature Screening Systems
With temperature screening one of the main ways to identify someone infected with COVID-19, monitoring it is a key defensive tool in helping curb the spread of the virus.
GovTech’s fast acting citizen-centric response amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Recognising the importance of getting timely and accurate information, a team of developers at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore developed MaskGoWhere – a website providing information on mask collection points.
