in Digital trust BUILDING DIGITAL TRUST: SINGAPORE AND SWISS TECH ASSOCIATIONS BAND TOGETHER IN FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND PARTNERSHIP
To build digital trust economies in Asia and Europe, Singapore-based tech industry trade association SGTech has committed to a long-term collaboration with two of its Swiss counterparts. The MOU was signed by Ms Yean Cheong, Executive Director, SGTech (seated left); Ms Diana Engetschwiler, Senior Advisor, digitalswitzerland (seated right); and Mr Fathi Derder, Managing Director, SDI...
Ever since OpenAI unleashed a chatbot called Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) on Nov 30, 2022, much of the world has been transfixed by its intelligence quotient. Microsoft has invested another US$10 billion in OpenAI which developed ChatGPT. In 2019, the Windows maker invested US$1 billion, becoming the startup’s exclusive cloud provider. OpenAI is now...
in Digital trust, Emerging Tech, Our Tech Talent, Tech Journey, Trail Blazers ACCELERATING CLIMATE ACTION THROUGH INNOVATION
Technology plays a critical role in reducing organisation’s carbon footprint Sustainability has been thrust into the spotlight in recent years due to the rise in climate change-related events around the world and fossil fuel price hikes. According to the OCBC Climate Index, Singapore has obtained a national average awareness score of 8.1 in 2022. Having...
As hybrid or remote working becomes popular, cyberattacks are expected to continue. Building a secure and reliable IT environment has therefore become an increasingly important priority for many businesses that are exploring opportunities in the global digital economy. While moving to the cloud and using cloud-based security features is a good way to deal with...
in Digital trust, Our Tech Catalyst BUILDING TRUST IN THE DIGITAL REALM MEANS MEETING USERS’ CHANGING EXPECTATIONS
DBS Group CEO Piyush Gupta (centre) gives his views on digital trust in a panel session moderated by Dr Bhaskar Chakravorti, Chair, Digital Planet, and Dean of Global Business, Fletcher School, Tufts University. The other panelist is Ajay Bhalla, (right) President, Cyber & Intelligence, Mastercard. When DBS Bank first rolled out a software token for...
in Digital trust, Our Tech Catalyst, Uncategorized CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE PROMISES TO BOLSTER SINGAPORE BID TO BE TRUSTED DIGITAL NODE
Singapore took an important step forward to build itself up as a trusted digital node with the launch of the virtual Digital Trust Centre of Excellence run by SGTech on October 28. With the help of the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (Asocio) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Business Advisory Council, SGTech will be driving the...
in Digital trust, Our Tech Catalyst Trust – An Essential Building Block of Modern Digital Transformation
In 1993, the New Yorker published a cartoon that showed a dog sitting at a personal computer, saying to another dog: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The comic would go on to become a global classic. It marked a watershed moment in history when the Internet shifted from obscurity to an everyday...
As organisations move to a cloud-first strategy, with applications and data workloads on cloud, there remain concerns over data security on cloud. Most organisations manage these security concerns by continuing to keep sensitive data on-premise while moving remaining workloads that require elasticity and scalability to cloud. The concern over security on cloud is not just...
Let’s start with a horror story. A French firm specialising in healthcare tech used a cloud-based version of an AI program to assess whether patients could query it for medical advice. The firm’s researchers gave the AI program various tasks, ranging from low impact – such as administrative chats with patients – to high sensitivity...