Singapore launches Digital Enterprise Blueprint
25 June 2024
On 29 May 2024, the Info-communications Media Development Authority (“IMDA”) issued a press release announcing the launch of the nation’s Digital Enterprise Blueprint (“DEB”). This initiative aims to accelerate digital transformation and empower Singapore enterprises by leveraging emerging technologies such as AI.
Digital Enterprise Blueprint
The DEB will facilitate an environment for experimentation, encourage small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) to harness technology to optimise the way they work, and strengthen digital resilience and cybersecurity across the ecosystem. About 50,000 SMEs are expected to benefit over the next five years from the new DEB through four key focus areas:
- Empower enterprises to be smarter by adopting AI-enabled solutions
- Enable enterprises to scale faster through cloud-based and integrated solutions
- Equip enterprises to be safer through improved cyber resilience
- Support enterprises to upskill workers to make full use of digital capabilities
As part of the DEB efforts to empower SMEs to be smarter by adopting AI, IMDA has worked with sector leads to co-develop Industry Digital Plans (“IDPs”), a roadmap for enterprises which highlights solutions that meet specific needs of the sector. IMDA will refresh the IDPs to incorporate AI-enabled solutions that would be relevant to meet the needs of the enterprises in that sector. IMDA expects 15,000 SMEs to benefit from AI-enabled solutions under the SMEs Go Digital programme over the next two years. For digitally mature SMEs, and as part of IMDA’s GenAI x Digital Leaders initiative, IMDA has partnered technology giants to benefit more than 400 such enterprises.
By way of background, the Ministry of Communications and Information held a public consultation on the DEB from 4 to 22 April 2024. More information on the DEB is available here.
Reference materials
The press release is available on the IMDA website www.imda.gov.sg.