The Singapore government is updating its digital infrastructure to drive its Smart Nation transformation. From balancing agile and legacy systems to rethinking regulation and attracting talent, a whole host of issues is being addressed. Dr. Janil Puthucheary, minister-in-charge of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), shares his insights at the first STACK 2018 Developers Conference.
Other than the choice of a lifetime partner, nothing determines happiness so much as choosing the right kind of work.
For the last five decades or so, our operating model or mobility game has been that if we work hard and work smart, we should be on track to be rewarded with upward social mobility and be able to live the Singapore Dream. This maxim includes the idea that one must perform well in the meritocratic education system.
No one is born ready for the future economy. What matters is the desire to learn and readiness to change. My eldest son enters Primary 1 next year. When my wife asked me which primary school we should pick for him, I replied, to her annoyance: ‘It doesn’t matter.’
The university degree is now less of a passport to the good life, warns Dr Tan Ern Ser.
