Singapore targets talent to “re-engineer” government

The Singaporean government will actively look to start-ups, developers and enterprise to overhaul and streamline government services and ICT infrastructure.
The call for talent, from both within and outside of Singapore, came during the city’s first government-hosted developers’ conference, STACK.

Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister, outlined the plans to government heads, industry and the tech community, stating that the main objective was to "re-engineer" the city-state's government.

“Because we were early adopters of technology, we now have many IT legacy systems built up over the years in different government agencies,” he said. “In some corners of government, we still have code t...