Transforming Government With Data and AI: Singapore GovTech's Journey With Databricks

GovTech is an agency in the Singapore Government focused on tech for good. The GovTech Chief Data Office (CDO) has built the GovTech Data Platform with Databricks at the core. As the government tech agency, we safeguard national-level government and citizen data. A comprehensive data strategy is essential to uplifting data maturity.

GovTech has adopted the service model approach where data services are offered to stakeholders based on their data maturity. Their maturity is uplifted through partnership, readying them for more advanced data analytics. CDO offers a plethora of data assets in a “data restaurant” ranging from raw data to data products, all delivered via Databricks and enabled through fine-grained access control, underpinned by data management best practices such as data quality, security and governance.

Within our first year on Databricks, CDO was able to save 8,000 man-hours, democratize data across 50% of the agency and achieve six-figure savings through BI consolidation.