At the Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG) 2024 event today, Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information Tan Kiat How announced the Digital Enterprise Blueprint (DEB) aimed to accelerate digital transformation and empower Singaporean enterprises by leveraging emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
According to a press statement, the DEB charts the next chapter in Singapore’s enterprise digitalisation journey amidst a rapidly evolving technological landscape and fast-growing digital economy.
“To establish the Republic as a nation of empowered enterprises and to elevate businesses and workers in the age of AI, the Blueprint will facilitate an environment for experimentation, encourage Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to harness technology to optimise the way they work, and strengthen digital resilience and cybersecurity across the ecosystem,” it stated.
50,000 SMEs are expected to benefit over the next five years from the new DEB through four key focus areas:
1. Empower enterprises to be smarter by adopting AI-enabled solutions
2. Enable enterprises to scale faster through cloud-based and integrated solutions
3. Equip enterprises to be safer through improved cyber resilience
4. Support enterprises to upskill workers to make full use of digital capabilities
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Seven partners have already come on board to pledge their commitment to the DEB, including Singapore Business Federation (SBF), Singapore Computer Society (SCS), SGTech, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.
As part of DEB efforts to empower SMEs to be smarter by adopting AI, IMDA has worked with sector leads to co-develop Industry Digital Plans (IDPs), a roadmap for enterprises that highlights solutions that meet the sector’s specific needs.
ATxSummit, organised by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore, will occur from May 30 to 31 at Capella Singapore. This apex event of ATxSG comprises an invitation-only Plenary conference covering a range of topics, including Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Safety, Quantum Computing, Sustainability, and Compute.
ATxSummit also features the ATxAI and Women and Youth in Tech conferences, alongside exclusive G2G events for government officials to address common digital concerns and G2B closed-door roundtables to facilitate closer partnerships between the public sector and the digital industry.
The event also saw the launch of SGTech Apprenticeship, the Tech Apprenticeship Programme (TAP) to expand the career pathways of graduates by providing access to industry apprenticeships; the signing of an MOU between IMDA and the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) to co-develop GPT-Legal; and the announcement Ignition AI Accelerator by Tribe and Digital Industry Singapore (DISG).
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