AI Singapore, the initiative to anchor deep national artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the island state, has launched two new
programmes together with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore targeted at enabling 12,000 more people to acquire AI knowhow under the TechSkills Accelerator (TeSA) initiative. TeSA aims to develop a pipeline of skilled tech
professionals to drive Singapore’s local tech ecosystem, especially in
the AI space.
Titled AI for Everyone (AI4E) and AI for Industry (AI4I), both programmes were officially unveiled by S Iswaran, Singapore Minister for Communications and Information, at AI Singapore’s first anniversary event on 30 August. Both initiatives aim to educate Singaporeans about AI – showing them how technology can help in their daily lives, and to prepare industry professionals to work with AI.
“AI has the potential to catalyse change. In an increasingly digital world, it is imperative that everyone is AI-ready so that they can benefit from the immense potential of AI,” said Professor Ho Teck Hua, Executive Chairman of AI Singapore.
“AI has the potential to transform our businesses and workplaces. IMDA is committed to ensure that our businesses and workers can effectively use AI to be more competitive. IMDA will partner industry players such as AI Singapore, Microsoft, Intel and DataCamp to bring AI to the community and the workforce.
Titled AI for Everyone (AI4E) and AI for Industry (AI4I), both programmes were officially unveiled by S Iswaran, Singapore Minister for Communications and Information, at AI Singapore’s first anniversary event on 30 August. Both initiatives aim to educate Singaporeans about AI – showing them how technology can help in their daily lives, and to prepare industry professionals to work with AI.
“AI has the potential to catalyse change. In an increasingly digital world, it is imperative that everyone is AI-ready so that they can benefit from the immense potential of AI,” said Professor Ho Teck Hua, Executive Chairman of AI Singapore.
“AI has the potential to transform our businesses and workplaces. IMDA is committed to ensure that our businesses and workers can effectively use AI to be more competitive. IMDA will partner industry players such as AI Singapore, Microsoft, Intel and DataCamp to bring AI to the community and the workforce.
"Singaporeans will have the opportunity to learn about the benefits AI can bring to our daily lives. Our workers can also learn to harness AI in their workplace to enhance productivity and realise new possibilities,” said Tan Kiat How, Chief Executive, IMDA.
AI for Everyone
· Aims to reach out to 10,000 people, from secondary school students to working adults
· Designed to make them smart consumers of AI technology
· Free three-hour workshop
AI for Everyone
· Aims to reach out to 10,000 people, from secondary school students to working adults
· Designed to make them smart consumers of AI technology
· Free three-hour workshop
AI for Everyone aims to reach out to 10,000 people in Singapore ranging from secondary school students to working adults. The programme will introduce them to AI technology and how it can be used to improve our daily lives. Through this programme, participants will learn to identify opportunities enabled through AI technologies, thus allowing them to be more savvy consumers of AI products and services. The initiative is co-supported by IMDA and Microsoft. Intel and Microsoft are both content providers in this programme.
The programme will be conducted by AISG for free. AISG, through its community and partners including IMDA, People’s Association and NTUC U-Associates, will reach out to engage 10,000 people for the programme. AISG will also work with schools, polytechnics and Institutes of Technical Education (ITE) to conduct similar workshops at their premises.
“Artificial intelligence holds the key to a new era of innovation. To unlock the economic and societal benefits of AI, we believe that the AI building blocks that Microsoft is developing today such as computer vision, speech and knowledge recognition should be made accessible to everyone, every day and everywhere,” said Kevin Wo, MD, Microsoft Singapore.
“Our collaboration through AI4E will allow us to further our aspiration to enable future-ready talents in Singapore, so that everyone can benefit from the promise of AI. Beyond sharing our technology, we also hope to collectively address AI issues and their implications on the society.”
AI for Industry
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Aims to reach out to 2,000 ICT industry professionals who are interested in picking up AI skills
· Designed to help them become users of AI capable of applying the technology to their jobs
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Three-month course funded by Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP)
AI for Industry targets technically-inclined industry professionals and aims to reach out to 2,000 people with basic AI competency to enhance their competitiveness in a digital economy. Through this programme, participants will learn to apply AI technologies to increase their productivity and their firms’ competitiveness. This initiative is supported by IMDA, Microsoft and Intel, together with DataCamp, an online learning platform for data science and AI.
“Learning data science by doing is key to helping upskill engineers, developers and other IT professionals in Singapore,” said Jonathan Cornelissen, CEO and founder of DataCamp. “That's why we're so excited to be expanding our existing collaboration with AI Singapore as their online learning platform for data science.”
“With everything around us getting smarter and connected, AI is finding its way in our daily tasks without us even realising it. To accelerate its application in solving the world’s biggest challenges, we need people with the right technical skills,” said Santhosh Viswanathan, MD, Intel, Asia Pacific and Japan.
“Learning data science by doing is key to helping upskill engineers, developers and other IT professionals in Singapore,” said Jonathan Cornelissen, CEO and founder of DataCamp. “That's why we're so excited to be expanding our existing collaboration with AI Singapore as their online learning platform for data science.”
“With everything around us getting smarter and connected, AI is finding its way in our daily tasks without us even realising it. To accelerate its application in solving the world’s biggest challenges, we need people with the right technical skills,” said Santhosh Viswanathan, MD, Intel, Asia Pacific and Japan.
“Whether it is for future job opportunities, career advancement or just knowing the basics, we are hopeful that these two programmes by AI Singapore will benefit many people in Singapore, providing them with the knowledge and skills to thrive in the digital economy,” said Professor Ho.
The establishment of the Advisory Council, to be chaired by former Attorney-General VK Rajah SC, was announced in June.
The 11 Advisory Council members were selected for their ability to contribute to the Advisory Council’s objectives. Members comprise international leaders in AI such as Google, Microsoft and Alibaba; advocates of social and consumer interests; and leaders of local companies who are keen to make use of AI.
The formation of the Advisory Council is one of three structured, interlinked initiatives* to support the engagement of stakeholders to collaboratively develop a trusted and vibrant AI ecosystem and position Singapore as a leading hub for AI.
The Advisory Council will advise and work with IMDA on the responsible development and deployment of AI. Amongst other things, the Advisory Council will assist IMDA in engaging stakeholders on issues that support the development of AI governance capabilities and frameworks. These include engaging ethics boards of commercial enterprises on ethical and related issues arising from private sector use of AI and data; consumer representatives on consumer expectations and acceptance of the use of AI; as well as members of the private capital community on the need to incorporate ethical considerations in their investment decisions into businesses which develop or adopt AI.
The Advisory Council will also assist the Singapore government in developing ethics standards and reference governance frameworks, and publish advisory guidelines, practical guides, and codes of practice for the voluntary adoption by the industry.
Supported by a secretariat, the Advisory Council will be able to tap on technical, legal, ethics and international experts from different fields and representatives for consumers and civil society to guide its work.
AI Singapore is a national programme supported by the National Research Foundation and hosted by the National University of Singapore. In line with the push to develop a digitally ready nation, AI has been identified as one of four emerging technologies to drive the digital economy and transform the way people live and work in Singapore.
Details:
The Advisory Council members are:
VK Rajah SC (Chairman), Essex Court Chambers Duxton (Singapore Group Practice)
Jenni Aldrich, Asia Pacific VP of Legal, Google
Amit Anand, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Jungle Ventures
Professor Chan Heng Chee, Chairman, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Dr Chen Wei, COO, Social Credits
Chia Song Hwee, President & COO, Temasek International
Andreas Ebert, Worldwide National Technology Officer, Office of the CTO, Industries, Microsoft
Corporation
Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS Group
Hamidah Aidillah Mustafa, Founder, Parrot Social
Peter Ho, Chairman, National Supercomputing Centre Steering Committee
Sara Yu Siying, VP, Deputy General Counsel, Partner, Alibaba Group
*The other two initiatives announced were a discussion paper released by the Personal Data Protection Commission on responsible development and adoption of AI, which will be used by the Advisory Council to frame its deliberations; and a research programme on the governance of AI and data use to advance and inform scholarly research on AI governance issues to be run by Singapore Management University.
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