Government of Singapore

The Government of Singapore has built a modular set of highly impactful open-sourced products to address the needs of public servants and citizens, that have significant potential to tackle urgent global development challenges. The objective is to make public sector technology from Singapore discoverable and accessible for government institutions and other relevant organizations on a global level as digital public goods.  In 2024 and beyond, Singapore plans to add and deploy additional Singapore government open source products as DPGs. By making those tools available as digital public goods Singapore hopes to address critical needs in areas such as data collection (FormSG), information accessibility (Isomer, GoGovSG) and trustworthy communication (Isomer, Postman). Previously, Singapore has worked in collaboration with UNDP’s Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development to make solutions such as Purple HATS (a customisable, automated accessibility testing tool)

This activity aims to equip governments with the knowledge and tools necessary for digital transformation and for a more efficient and citizen-friendly government. By sharing learnings from Singapore’s experience building technology for public good and incorporating DPI best practices we hope to enable the next generation of tech-enabled governments. These include learnings on how to create bureaucratic space for digital transformation, build capacity for the development of digital public goods, and create a suite of minimalist, reusable products by starting from simple, well-defined problems. Upcoming exchanges and sessions involve other Southeast Asian countries as well as broader global panel discussions.

Singapore has previously demonstrated considerable success in deploying products such as FormSG in countries such as Sri Lanka. In 2024 and beyond, we are looking to replicate similar success and help to address urgent development needs by sharing and deploying successful solutions from Singapore with countries such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, amongst others. The planned deployment of these open source solutions as DPGs promises to be a huge enabler for digital transformation in these countries and exemplifies what a modern technology enabled government can look like