No longer a novelty like a few years ago, smart technologies are now crucial to helping a city attract talent, create jobs and improve the quality of life for citizens.
In Singapore, one of the world’s foremost smart cities today, the progress has not been deemed fast enough. It is considering a number of initiatives to move things along more quickly.
In the first extension of the use of national personal data platform MyInfo, customers opening accounts with DBS, United Overseas Bank, OCBC Bank, and Standard Chartered will no longer have to fill in voluminous forms or submit documents such as income statements.
Instead, the bank can call up their details from MyInfo to make it a swifter, fuss-free affair.
Weiterlesen: Personal data platform MyInfo to speed up bank processes in Singapore
Mobile Connect, by the three local telcos, eliminates the need for multiple passwords
By year end, consumers will be able to use their mobile phone number as their e-identity for seamless login to various online content and services.
Dubbed Mobile Connect, the authentication service by the three local telcos Singtel, StarHub and M1 lets consumers do away with managing multiple passwords when accessing online services - in a bid to be forerunners in Singapore's Smart Nation agenda.
Weiterlesen: SG: One e-identity for online services to launch by year end
Singaporeans and permanent residents opening bank accounts with OCBC, UOB, DBS and Standard Chartered no longer have to key in details, such as NRIC number and address, or submit physical documents to verify the data.
Instead, they can consent to having the details pulled digitally from MyInfo, a Government-backed digital vault of their personal data, launched in May last year (2016). The change takes effect on Wednesday (May 3).
Weiterlesen: SG: Say goodbye to hassle of submitting documents when opening bank accounts
Digitisation, devices such as smartphones and the adaptation of technology have progressed at an amazing pace over the last decade. Paper books have evolved into e-books, DVDs into streamed films, CDs into MP3s, and road maps into GPS.
Business and personal correspondence fill digital mailboxes. Newspapers and the news flash on screens anywhere, anytime. Facebook has 1.9 billion users, an average person spends 35 minutes a day on the social network, and 350 million photos are uploaded daily.
Weiterlesen: SG: Lifestyles may change in a digital society, but our identity should not