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Workforce Singapore (WSG) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Manpower of the Government of Singapore.. During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when many Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents lost their jobs due to the closure of businesses, Workforce Singapore played a vital part in career-coaching the people of Singapore into transitioning into essential industries.
In 2011, Singapore was ranked first in green building policies, before advanced cities like Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul, in a study conducted by Solidiance on Asia-Pacific cities. [ 13 ] In December 2011, there are more than 940 green building projects, translating to a gross floor area of about 300 million ft2, or 12% of Singapore's total gross ...
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]
By the year 2000, Singapore launched its own e-government platform. The SGEA was adopted to drive the e-government initiative. The expectation for its adoption was that it will transform the public sector by optimizing end-to-end business processes and system capabilities so that they are aligned with the Singaporean government's needs ...
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.
Food and Nutrition is an emerging sector in Singapore. One of Singapore's successes between 2011 and 2015 was in growing an R&D ecosystem for the F&N and consumer care sector. This has led to the creation of close to 1,000 new R&D jobs. [14]
The Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), founded in 1956, is the oldest non-profit vocational university for lifelong learning in Singapore. [1] It offers a variety of degree programs such as business management, engineering , fashion design , nursing, mass communications , psychology and hospitality management .
ERP gantry along the Bukit Timah Expressway.. The Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system is an electronic toll collection scheme adopted in Singapore to manage traffic by way of road pricing, and as a usage-based taxation mechanism to complement the purchase-based Certificate of Entitlement system.