The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
(IDA) is committed to expanding Singapore's capabilities in data and
analytics, said IDA Executive Deputy Chairman Steve Leonard today at the
inaugural Emtech Singapore 2014, which IDA is supporting as host partner. EmTech is MIT Technology Review's global emerging technologies conference.
Leonard
said, "The knowledge created through intelligent analysis of data
enables us to deal with priority issues such as healthcare. Data and
analytics underpin our development towards being an increasingly Smart
Nation."
According to IDA, studies have projected that data and
analytics could generate an additional S$10 to S$17 billion of value
per year for Singapore.
IDA's
initiatives to develop data capabilities include data.gov.sg's
Apps4SG Competition to encourage participants to use government data to
develop innovative applications that improve the way residents live, work and
play in Singapore. IDA's Data Innovation Challenge is another example of
the Government's crowdsourcing effort to address data-driven business
challenges, connecting enterprises and data providers
with data specialists, ICT companies, research institutes, and
institutes of higher learning (IHLs) to develop prototypes,
proof-of-concepts and analytics solutions for data-driven commercial
problems.
To strengthen data talent within the organisation, IDA
has appointed Prabir Sen to lead its new Data Sciences Group, which
will provide capabilities to IDA’s data-driven projects. IDA will
further train and recruit for this group.
Leonard said, "IDA has the goal of supporting Singapore's continued
growth as a Smart Nation using data and analytics to improve the lives
of citizens."
To enable Singapore to be a regional analytics
hub, IDA has also collaborated with leading players in the ecosystem as
well as local IHLs to provide academic programmes, facilitate industry
attachment programmes, and to develop and enhance analytics capabilities
for local students and professionals.
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