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The refreshed digital strategy rests on three pillars -- cyber resilience, AI-driven growth, and inclusive digital transformation -- with over 210,000 seniors already trained in digital skills.
Smart Nation 2.0 is built on three strategic goals reflecting Singapore's evolved approach to digital transformation: building robust cybersecurity infrastructure and digital resilience, pursuing artificial intelligence leadership tied to economic development, and ensuring inclusive digital transformation so technology benefits all segments of society, not just early adopters.
On the security front, Singapore has implemented an Operational Technology Cybersecurity Masterplan and introduced a Digital Infrastructure Act, both intended to ensure citizens can trust digital services with their personal information as government and business processes become increasingly digitized.
The National AI Strategy 2.0 component includes SGD 120 million dedicated to "AI for Science" initiatives, alongside a goal of expanding Singapore's AI workforce from 4,500 to 15,000 practitioners by 2029 -- a more than threefold increase intended to give the city-state genuine depth in AI talent rather than relying solely on imported expertise.
On inclusion, Singapore has already trained more than 210,000 seniors in basic digital skills, exceeding original targets by 110 percent, addressing a generational digital divide that many smart city strategies elsewhere have struggled to close at scale.
Notably, the Smart Nation programme is not confined to the public sector. Singapore's smart infrastructure approach extends to real-time traffic management systems that dynamically adjust flow to ease congestion, and energy-efficient building systems that optimize resource use across the city's built environment, reflecting a broader push to make Smart Nation tangible in daily life rather than confined to government digital services alone.