The Smart Nation ScholarshipSmart Nation FellowshipTechnology Associate ProgrammeFresh graduatesexperience and the potential and aspiration to serve in Public Service leadership. Candidates may be considered for the PSLP (SP) or the Administrative Service (AS) or apply without needing to choose to join the AS/PSLP or any specific government agencies. Successful candidates will be placed onto the appropriate leadership programme, based on their past work experiences, calibre, readiness and seniority. There will be structured job placement and onboarding support to support mid-career officers transition to the Public Service as they do not have any prior experience working in the public service. For their first one or two postings, officers will select from a list of curated jobs that provides developmental exposure in job roles such as policy-operations as well as stakeholder mobilisation and engagement, which will tap on their knowledge, skills and perspectives. This allows them to leverage their expertise and experiences in making substantive contributions, while supporting their learning and transition into the Public Service. In 2017, the Smart Nation & Digital Government Office (SNDGO) was formed, directly under the purview of the Prime Minister’s Office. SNDGO drives digital transformation and builds long-term capabilities for the public sector and promotes adoption and participation from the public and industry. Through the different talent schemes targeting different levels, the government to attract and recruit tech talent to transform the way the government provides services (Table 3).• Groom and develop young talents or various ICT leadership roles in the public sectorTable 3: Talent schemes targeting different levels for digital transformation in the government (Lee, 2023) With the ready pool of public sector staff with digital skills, the government was able to create content and applications on demand and implement several digital platforms in-house such as the TraceTogether app and SafeEntry Registration platform. These platforms were instrumental to complement its efforts in surveillance, enforcement, and engagement to ensure business 136Digital Ready Public Service in a Smart Nation In the 2021 Smart City Index published by the Swiss business school Institute for Management Development, which ranks 118 cities by how “smart” they are, considering input from the cities’ residents of how technology had improved their lives (IMD, 2021). Singapore came up top. Singapore’s smart nation journey started in 2014 when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlined plans to turn Singapore into the world’s first Smart Nation and launched the Smart Nation Programme Office to drive the national effort to transform Singapore into a Smart Nation. Smart Nation is integral to Singapore’s next phase of nation building. Technology disruption is a global force and developments in digital technology present opportunities for Singapore to enhance strengths, overcome national challenges and physical limits to build new sources of comparative advantage. Singapore has laid out mutually reinforcing plans to build a Digital Economy, Digital Government and Digital Society which are the three pillars of Smart Nation. This widespread transformation is exemplified building strong digital infrastructure and service delivery, and involving the public, private and people sectors. In 2016, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) was formed to be responsible for the delivery of government digital services to the public, and the development of infrastructure to support the Smart Nation initiative. Building digital infrastructure is necessary to accelerate the digital drive of the government, but it can’t sustain that momentum by itself, it will require a pool of tech talents in the government (Ethos, 2019). Particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, the success of the deployment of digitally driven measurements was not only dependent on Singapore’s readiness, i.e. resilient broadband and internet networks infrastructure which are capable of accommodating to the increased data traffic, but having public sector staff with the digital skills to create content and applications on demand (Lee, Lee and Liu, 2021).students• • Pre-University and University • Two-year exclusive leadership-trainee programme across different tech domains: application development, • cyber security, sensors & IOT, data science & AI and ICT infrastructure• Data scientists, technologists and engineers from academia and industry in Singapore and overseas3 to 6 months assignment or part-time consultancy across tech domains from artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud, data science, app development, cybersecurity to sensors & IoT.
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