🥳 #GovTechTurns7 this month!

In a blink of an eye, we are celebrating our seventh birthday and communities, with you!

If you have been wanting to contribute to our efforts to build a Smart Nation, take an easy first step and visit our Smart Nation Builder roving around Singapore. You'll get to learn about our digital government services and give direct feedback on how they can be better. We welcome you on board our next deployment at the Builder to find out more:

🗓 27 – 29 Oct 2023
📍 National Library, The Plaza, Level 1

Find out more about our different communities and the Smart Nation Builder at 🔗 https://go.gov.sg/gt7-tg

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🥳 Opportunities to co-create with the Singapore Government!

TechKaki is a citizen community by GovTech to encourage engagement and direct co-creation with our tech teams. Our community tech enthusiasts get first-hand information on our new tech features before launch and are invited to participate in user testing sessions.

🥰 We want to show extra love to this community during our #GovTechTurns7 campaign, we are grateful to have grown and fostered strong bonds with our Tech Kaki community since 2017!

➡️ Read about our Tech Kaki's enriching volunteering experiences. Feeling inspired? Join us and work alongside product teams to make our digital products and services better for citizens and businesses in Singapore!

Learn more about our different communities and Tech Kaki at
🔗 https://go.gov.sg/gt7-tg

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[#SCAMALERT]

Did you receive an email claiming to be from #Singpass informing that your account may be deactivated if you do not take action immediately?

This is a scam! Please do not click on hyperlinks or open attachments in the email as they may lead to phishing websites or contain malicious software.

We’re working with the relevant authorities to take down the phishing websites, but new ones can appear. We’d like to remind users to be vigilant.

If you suspect that you have fallen prey, please call 6335 3533 to report it to Singpass Helpdesk.

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🗓 #Event: Digital For Life - Meet our Singpass and LifeSG teams

Do you know the government services you can access on the #LifeSG app and how to protect your #Singpass account?

🤗 Join LifeSG and Singpass at IMDA's Digital for Life Festival roadshows starting this weekend. You can learn about their services through playing interactive games and stand a chance to win attractive prizes!

Head down to pick up essential digital skills for daily living, gain insights on guiding children to stay safe online, explore emerging technologies and more. There’s something for everyone. Provide your feedback and let’s co-create better services together!

Learn more about the festival at
🔗 https://go.gov.sg/smctr-imda-digitalforlifefestival2023

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#CrowdTaskSG Great Budget Meal Hunt 🧐

Become a Lobang king or queen! 👑

With your resourcefulness, help other citizens out by submitting new budget meal entries or verifying a budget meal at any of Housing Development Board's coffee shops around the island. Not only that! There are different tiers of challenges for you to take on where you can unlock unique badges and achievements upon completing them.

Take part in The Great Budget Meal Hunt today by signing up or logging into your CrowdTaskSG account at
🔗 go.gov.sg/ctsg-tg

Together, we can all enjoy pocket-friendly meals! Search for your budget meals at
🔗 go.gov.sg/budgetmeal 😋

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💭#Discussion - What are some tech terms that start with P?
Let us know in the comments!

🧠 How well do you #KnowYourTech?

Received an alert for an app update? That's called a patch!

Patches are software and operating system (OS) updates that address security vulnerabilities within a program or product. Some best practices include:

👉 Enable automatic software updates
👉 Reboot your computer after installing new patches to allow updates to take effect
👉 Avoid software updates when using untrusted networks. When in public, use personal 4G/5G instead.

This ensures that your digital devices are protected by the most effective defence measure by keeping them updated!

📢 PSA: If you are downloading a new Singapore Government App, please
(1) ensure that you are downloading from official app stores
(2) the app is created by official Vendors and Developers. If in doubt, do ask around to verify the app's authenticity before downloading!

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💭#Discussion - What are some tech terms that start with Q?
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🧠 How well do you #KnowYourTech?

What are Quick Response codes or QR codes?
👉 They are scannable pixelated barcodes that store data
👉 They work similarly to barcodes but consist of black squares and dots instead
👉 Users can scan the code with a QR reader or scanner

Some common ways we use QR codes in our daily lives:
✅ To download apps
✅ To provide contactless access to a restaurant menu
✅ To provide easy access to product information

The arrangement of each QR code varies depending on the information it contains, and that changes the arrangement of its black modules.

Find out more about the history of QR codes:
🔗 https://go.gov.sg/smctr-historyoftech-qrcode

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Don't break a sweat when facing tech dilemmas!

💻 Attention public officers, government business partners, and tech enthusiasts – your gateway to digital innovation is here. Explore a wealth of resources tailored just for you.

Sign up for the Singapore Government Developer Portal Digest now to receive monthly bite-sized tech updates from new products to community resources!

🚀 Subscribe at go.gov.sg/devportal-signup-tg

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🤔 Do you know how you can keep your Singpass safe?

Put your knowledge to the test with the latest #CrowdTaskSG survey and earn 150 coins! Share the quiz with your friends and family after completing it to earn an ADDITIONAL bonus of 100 coins.

Sign up or log into your CrowdTaskSG account to get started:
🔗 https://go.gov.sg/singpass-quiz

Quiz ends on 7 Dec 2023.

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💭#Discussion - What are some tech terms that start with R?
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🧠 How well do you #KnowYourTech?

Reinforcement learning is a machine learning training method based on rewarding desired behaviours and/or rejecting undesired ones. Such as teaching a computer to play games; learning which tactics lead to victory and which do not.

Using this method, the digital agent learns through trial and error to behave in an environment by performing certain actions to achieve one or more objectives. The agent measures how close it is to reaching the objectives with each action and, with time, learns to adopt strategies using the actions that bring it closer to the goal. This learning method has been adopted in artificial intelligence (AI) as a way of directing machine learning through rewards and penalties.

Learn more about what our Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Division do at
🔗 https://go.gov.sg/smctr-devportal-kyt-reinforcementlearning

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Did you know that Scrum was first introduced in 1995 as a better way of implementing team collaboration for solving complex problems?

A framework for project management that emphasises teamwork, accountability, and iterative progress towards a well-defined goal, Scrum can also be thought of as a practical way to implement Agile.

Under the Scrum process, practitioners work with what they have and continually evaluate what is or is not working.

Learn more about Scrum and its part in Agile Development here:
🔗 go.gov.sg/smctr-devportal-kyt-agiledev

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Welcoming 2024 with open arms! 🥳

Thank you for your support in 2023! We look forward to grow this community and continue to deliver great content for you.

💬 Let us know in the comments what you would wish to see more of in 2024.

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎆

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