By February 2019, it had reached an uptake of 1.1 million monthly parking sessions. 1 6 For the team’s use of design to drive inclusivity in collaboration with public sector entities, it won an iF Design Award—an industry excellence award with a 66-year heritage originating in the German Bauhaus movement—in 2017 in the category of service design. The compiled ethnographic insights, trends, and solutions became an open source publication made available online after its launch at Singapore Design Week in 2017, enabling other agencies in the ecosystem to leverage the ideas in other projects to improve life for people with disabilities. The unit has applied human-centered design to areas such as housing, social assistance, population, talent and workforce, and procurement and financial data analysis by key monetary bodies. The Government is directing billions of dollars into a strategy aimed at spurring innovation and helping companies bring new technological developments to market. Please click "Accept" to help us improve its usefulness with additional cookies. third party consultancy fees, software and equipment, and incremental internal manpower cost. The program helped place 21 people with disabilities in jobs as full-time employees. Parking.sg helped to reduce monthly purchases of paper coupon booklets by 70 percent. Not our economic growth, not our international standing, not our multiracial harmony, not even our nationhood. The country is best known for its fintech landscape and the MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore) has set aside $225 million (US$165 million) to develop the sector over the next five years, but the government has also pushed to diversity the startup ecosystem. That led NCSS, along with DesignSingapore Council, to put together a team to identify opportunities to improve inclusion and quality of life for people with disabilities. Top 6 process mining tools for streamlining workflows, Aspen Skiing Co. counts on change management for contactless experience, CIOs embrace remote recruitment to land new gigs, Remote IT’s future: Key lessons learned from this WFH era, Ranpak digital transformation expands sales of packing robots, Sponsored item title goes here as designed, Dubai fosters health-tech innovation for local, global healthcare needs, The smart data driving Grab’s agenda in Southeast Asia, Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2020, Top 5 strategic priorities for CIOs in 2020, 7 'crackpot' technologies that might transform IT, 8 technologies that will disrupt business in 2020, 7 questions CIOs should ask before taking a new job, 7 ways to position IT for success in 2020, 20 ways to kill your IT career (without knowing it), IT manager’s survival guide: 11 ways to thrive in the years ahead, CIO resumes: 6 best practices and 4 strong examples, 4 KPIs IT should ditch (and what to measure instead). "Government leaders have been outspoken digital champions," said Diaan-Yi Lin, senior partner and managing partner, Singapore at McKinsey & Company. What is lesser-known is the extent to which the Singapore government has embraced design in its strategies to improve citizens’ lives. But when Singapore’s big shift begins in earnest, it is essential that agencies ensure that they have “the right skills and understanding of cloud platforms and cloud services”, says DXC’s Diekmann. By digitizing this highly manual process, the goal was to save motorists time, increase visibility of parking spot availability across the island, and enable per-minute charging based on actual use.