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The Smart Nation was an initiative launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 24 November 2014. [3] In financial year 2017, the government had set aside $2.4 billion to support the initiative, [4] which involves the government purchasing services from technology startups rather than offering grants to support them. [5]
The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is a statutory board of the Government of Singapore, under the Prime Minister's Office. It was restructured from Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) in 2016, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and officially legislated in Parliament on 18 August that year.
William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.
The Government of Singapore consists of several departments, known as ministries and statutory boards in Singapore.Ministries are led by a member of the Cabinet and deal with state matters that require direct political oversight.
On 5 June 1959, the Ministry of Culture came into being with the swearing-in and appointments of ministers of the new Government of Singapore. On 1 February 1980, the Broadcasting Division of the Ministry of Culture became a statutory board, the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. 1985 saw the dissolution of the Ministry of Culture.
SGInnovate is a government-owned innovation platform in Singapore centred on the development of deep technology. [1] It was established in 2016 to consolidate innovation activities in Singapore. SGInnovate was founded to advance and scale deep technology products from Singapore. [2] [3] [4]
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The SGEA is an offshoot of the Civil Service Computerization Programme (CSCP), which the Singaporean government launched in the 1980s to turn Singapore's public sector as a world-class exploiter of IT. [1] The initial goal was the improvement of internal operational efficiencies through the automation of traditional work functions in the ...