INET 2015 Islamabad

Singapore's learnings in e-government that leads to a Smart Singapore

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1. Smart Singapore: Key Drivers Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com Head, Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat Asia Pacific November 18, 2015, INET Islamabad, Pakistan
2. Disclaimer: I am speaking on behalf of myself as a Singaporean and no one else
3. Quick History Lesson
4. 1970s: Competing with other labour economies was getting harder if labour productivity is not increased
5. 1980s: CSCP (Civil Service Computerisation Program) launched targetting public administration to use IT – led to TradeNet and LawNet (to name two)
6. Source: “E-Government in Asia: Enabling Public Service Innovation in the 21st Century”, James Yong, 2003
7. 1990s and beyond: Broadband Internet, massive up take of high performance consumer products (aka smartphones), content creation democratised
8. Five Lessons
9. Lesson 1
10. All government services that can be delivered electronically shall be delivered through electronically
11. To effectively deliver government services electronically, standards have to be observed and enforced
12. Standards have to be open, freely accessible to anyone and any solution must have an “open source reference implementation”
13. An Open Source Reference Implementation would ensure that the knowledge of the tech will always be available in the open
14. Why?
15. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/south_korea_to_deport_microsoft_activex/
16. At a national level, you cannot compromise your independence to closed source solutions
17. So, with an Open Source Reference Implementation, you have the needed gold standard for continuity
18. Lesson 2
19. Open Data: Data portals give citizens opportunities to co-create solutions that benefit all – data is the “new oil”
20. Lesson 3
21. Industry Collaboration: Government should be a catalyst and let industry lead and innovate
22. Lesson 4
23. Risk Taking: New ideas should be adopted quickly by government and learn from mistakes – fail early, fail fast
24. Lesson 5
25. Stable Political Leadership: or at least a political discourse that values consistency and deliverance
26. These 5 lessons together help drive the creation of a Smart City/Nation
27. The Five Lessons 1. Open Source/Standards 2: Open Data 3: Industry Collaboration 4: Risk taking 5: Stable Politics
28. Thank you Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com @harishpillay