Teo: Singapore is opening government data to the private sector
Josephine Teo · Singapore: the AI Engineer Nation — with Minister Josephine Teo · Oct 19, 2024 · at 11:55
Singapore's Minister for Digital Development and Information, Josephine Teo, discusses government initiatives to support enterprise AI adoption under National AI Strategy 2.0.
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“Some of it, for example, could be specific to the finance sector, some specific to the logistics sector, but then there are also different kinds of data that lies within government possession, and we are making it much more readily available to the private sector.”
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