MDDI 演讲稿 · 2024-11-04
陈杰豪高级政务部长在 HCLTech AI 实验室媒体发布会上的演讲
Speech by SMS Tan Kiat How at HCLTech's AI Lab Media Launch event
要点
- • 新加坡与 HCLTech 合作 40+ 年——从硬件到软件——再到云、AI 与生成式 AI——一直在演进。
- • HCLTech 与本地理工学院签署 MOU——未来几年培训并雇用 50 名一年级学生与中职转型人才。
- • Tan 鼓励更多在新加坡的全球跨国公司——开始招聘理工学院学生（不只是大学生）——他们在编码与解决真实世界问题上同样优秀，部分甚至更强。
- • 《国家 AI 战略 2.0》是「活文档」——不能刻在石头上——这个行业变化太快——必须务实、敏捷、持续再培训。
完整译文（中文）
MDDI 英文原文译文 · 翻译日期：2026-05-03
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数码发展及新闻部高级政务部长 Tan Kiat How 在 HCLTech AI 实验室媒体发布会上的演讲（2024 年 11 月 4 日）
1. 印度驻新加坡高级专员 Shilpak Ambule 博士阁下、来自 HCLTech 的朋友们——无论你们扎根本地还是再次来访——欢迎回到新加坡。
2. 我很高兴出席与 HCLTech 一同庆祝又一里程碑。我们与 HCLTech 已是 40 多年的伙伴——这一伙伴关系经历不同的时代——从硬件，到软件，再到当今的前沿——不只是云服务，还包括 AI 与生成式 AI。
3. AI 是有巨大潜能改造行业、经济、社会与社区的技术之一。我们很乐意有更多像 HCLTech 这样的伙伴——和我们一起走这条路、把伙伴关系带到下一层。
4. 朋友们前面提到——新加坡之所以「深思技术」是出于必要。我们没有自然资源——我们有的是稳健的韧性、是「建国」的目的感——并努力维护社会所珍视的生活方式与价值——为新加坡人持续创造机会——不只是当代——也是为了几代以后的人。
5. 在这种处境下——「能用技术创造新机会、克服既有约束、提供可持续经济增长」很重要。无论是 70、80 年代的「计算机化」，90 年代用互联网，到 2000 年代谈数字化，到如今谈云服务——
6. AI 真的就是我们「用技术创造机会」努力的一部分。技术周围有整个价值体系与生态。我不认为哪家公司、哪一群研究者、科学家或开发者能独占这项技术。重点在「构建生态」——而作为我们想在新加坡构建的有活力生态的一部分——我们希望有许多伙伴加入。
7. 这不只是构建一个「在金融、医疗、物流等行业使用的技术生态」——也是构建一个让「下一代人才与劳动力能够有意义参与」的生态。
8. 我所说的——是给员工与劳动力提供培训机会。可以是那些目前在职、但想再培训与升级以承担科技相关行业不同角色的人。也可以是那些目前在校、思考未来要走科技相关职业的人。
9. 我很高兴——这里有产业与学界的合作——为我们的学生（既有的学生，也有寻求继续教育与培训的中职生）提供这样的机会。我们的教育者与培训者也有机会接触行业趋势——理解课堂之外的世界。
10. 就像 HCLTech 等公司用技术改造企业与经济一样——重点是创造一个「我们都有意义参与、并在各方间找到共赢伙伴关系」的生态。
11. 我很高兴能见证 HCLTech AI 实验室的设立——以及理工学院与之签署的 MOU——为我们的学生提供更多机会。我也很高兴听到——HCLTech 已承诺与本地理工学院合作——在未来几年培训并最终雇用 50 名一年级学生与中职转型人才。
12. 我希望这是一段对所有人都富有成果、共赢的伙伴关系的开始。第一——给我们许多理工学院学生参与产业项目的机会、并希望他们能与 HCLTech 这样的全球公司一起开启科技职业；第二——我前面提到，让我们的教育者有机会接触课堂之外发生的事；第三——这是双赢——HCLTech 将能接触到非常优秀的学生。
13. 我们的全球跨国公司中——很多并未把目光投向理工学院学生——也许是因为他们更熟悉我们的大学。这些都是非常好的大学——但我会说——我们理工学院的学生也非常出色——其中一些在「编码、解决真实世界问题」等技术能力上——与大学生持平甚至更强。他们具备与大学生不同的强项。
14. 所以——我希望这份 MOU 能开启这样一种伙伴关系——让许多扎根新加坡、为本地区与更广区域招人的全球跨国公司——也开始把目光投向我们的理工学院学生。我们为我们的理工学院感到自豪——它们是我们投入大量资源的机构——为多个领域的毕业生提供非常扎实的技术基础。
15. 在此——我祝贺理工学院们；也祝贺 HCLTech 迈出这一步。我们的《国家 AI 战略 2.0》是一份「活文档」——它不是刻在石头上的——根本上——我们身处一个快速演变的行业。去年的技术技能、架构与做法——几年后可能就变得不相关。所以——我们必须持续再培训自己。我们将始终保持务实与敏捷——并欢迎政府、产业、学界之间更深的协作——共同找出「保持相关」的办法。我欢迎反馈、建议与输入——让我们能持续调整战略、项目、计划、伙伴关系——为新加坡与我们产业里的伙伴找出新做法、创造新机会。
16. 我祝贺 HCLTech 与理工学院开启这段美好的新伙伴关系——也期待与产业伙伴度过更多年头。
17. 谢谢。
英文原文
MDDI 官网原始记录 · 抓取日期：2026-05-02
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SPEECH BY SENIOR MINISTER OF STATE FOR DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION TAN KIAT HOW AT HCLTECH’S AI LAB MEDIA LAUNCH, 4 NOVEMBER 2024
1. Your Excellency, Dr Shilpak Ambule, High Commissioner of India to Singapore, friends from HCLTech, whether you are based here or visiting us again, a very warm welcome back to Singapore.
2. I am very happy to be part of the celebration of another milestone with HCLTech. We have been partners with HCLTech for more than four decades and our partnership has evolved through the different times, starting from hardware to software and now at the cutting edge of technology, looking at not just cloud services, but also AI and generative AI.
3. AI is one of the technologies that has tremendous potential to really transform industry sectors, economies, societies and communities. This is an area which we are very happy to have more partners, such as HCLTech, to work together with us on this journey and take our partnership to the next level.
4. As mentioned by friends earlier, Singapore thinks about technology deeply out of necessity. We are, unfortunately, not blessed with natural resources but what we have is great resilience and a sense of purpose of building a country, making sure that we preserve the way of life and values our society treasures to continue to create opportunities for Singaporeans. Not just for the current generation but for many generations to come.
5. In these circumstances, the ability to use technology to create new opportunities, to overcome existing constraints, to provide sustainable economic growth is important. Whether it is about computerisation in the 70s and 80s, using the internet in the 90s, or thinking about digitalisation in the early 2000s, to now talking about cloud services.
6. AI is really part of our efforts to use technology to create opportunities. Technology has an entire value system and ecosystem around it. I don't think anyone can say that this technology is the domain of any one company or any one group of researchers or scientists or developers. It is really about building the ecosystem, and as part of this vibrant ecosystem we want to build in Singapore, we want to have many partners to be a part of it.
7. It is not just about building a vibrant ecosystem around technology to use in different sectors such as financial services, healthcare and logistics, but also an ecosystem in which the next generation of talent and workforce are able to participate meaningfully.
8. What I meant by that is giving training opportunities for workers and the workforce. It could be those who are currently employed but want to reskill and upskill themselves to take on different roles in the sectors related to technology. It could also be those who are currently in school and thinking about a career in technology-related roles in the future.
9. I am very happy that we have a partnership here with the industry and academia to provide such opportunities for our students, both existing ones as well as mid-career students who are looking at continuing their education and training. There are also opportunities for our educators and trainers to be exposed to industry trends and understand what is happening out there beyond the classroom.
10. Just like how companies like HCLTech are using technology to transform businesses and transform economies, it is about creating this ecosystem in which all of us are participating meaningfully and finding win-win partnerships across the board.
11. I am very happy to be able to mark this occasion about the setting up of a HCLTech AI Lab together with MoU signings undertaken by the polytechnics to provide more opportunities. I am also very happy to hear that HCLTech has committed to partner with our local polytechnic to train and eventually hire 50 first-year students and mid-career talents over the next few years.
12. I hope that this is the start of a fruitful and win-win partnership for all. Firstly, by creating opportunities for many of our polytechnic students to participate in industry projects and hopefully get a start in their careers in technology with global companies like HCLTech. Secondly, I talked about giving our educators the opportunity to be exposed to what is happening outside the classroom. And thirdly, it is a win-win because HCLTech will have access to very good students.
13. Not many of our global MNCs have looked at hiring polytechnic students perhaps because many of them are more familiar with our universities. All those are very good universities, but I would say that our polytechnic students are very good as well, and some of them are on par or even better in terms of technical skills, such as coding, and in terms of thinking about solving real-world problems. They have different strengths from our university students.
14. So, I hope that this MoU will be the start of a partnership, in which many of our global MNCs based in Singapore, hiring for the region and beyond, will also start looking at our polytechnic students. And we're very proud of our polytechnics because these are institutions we have invested a lot of resources in to provide very good technical foundation for our graduates across various domains.
15. So, on this note, congratulations to the polytechnics and I would like to also congratulate HCLTech for taking this step. The National AI Strategy 2.0 that we have is a live document – it is not a strategy that we have cast in stone because fundamentally, we are in a sector that is transforming rapidly. The technological skills and architectures and the way of doing things from last year may be irrelevant a few years from now. So, we must reskill ourselves on an ongoing basis. We will always be pragmatic and agile and that is where we welcome greater collaboration between the government, industry as well as academia, to collectively find ways of remaining relevant. I welcome feedback, suggestions, and input on how we can continue to adapt our strategies, programmes, schemes, partnerships, and find new ways of doing things and creating new opportunities for Singapore and our partners in the industry.
16. I congratulate HCLTech and the polytechnics on the wonderful start of a new partnership and I look forward to many more years with our industry partners.
17. Thank you.