Gov in 60 (+) Seconds Ep. 15 – Open Government Products shares Singapore’s Covid-19 tech tools

By GovInsider

The short and snappy of two tools Singapore is using to combat the pandemic.

Masks, PPEs, and vaccines are all weapons in Singapore's arsenal of tools to combat Covid-19, and so is tech.

Experimental tech unit Open Government Products (OGP), which sits within GovTech Singapore, has created two tools: a convenient and secure way for citizens to share health records, and an invisible weapon supporting the frontlines of Singapore's Covid-19 fight.

GovInsider speaks with Samuel Koh Su En, Product Operations Manager, and Kim-Chan Tze Hui, Louiz, Software Engineer at OGP to learn more about Singapore's use of tech in combatting the pandemic.