MDDI 演讲稿 · 2024-11-15
高级政务部长 Janil Puthucheary 在 GovTech 创新日 2024 上的演讲
高级政务部长 Janil Puthucheary 在 GovTech 创新日 2024 上的演讲
要点
- • GovTech 的"数据与人工智能锦标赛"规模持续扩大，从 2018 年启动时约 30 个机构 400 名人员，发展至 2024 年"提示词皇家赛"吸引 75 个机构逾 1,000 名公务员参赛，并配套举办了 11 场聚焦提示工程、聊天机器人设计及实用 AI 工具的工作坊。
- • HDB、HSA、MCCY、MOE、MOM、MSF、MUIS、SCDF 及 SFA 九个机构通过"提示词皇家赛 X"与 GovTech 合作，逾 550 名人员完成了针对各自机构专属场景定制的提示工程挑战。
- • LAUNCH! 创新计划共征集到逾 600 个公务员创意，举办 16 场机构主导的创意马拉松及 3 次黑客松冲刺，最终在 AWS、Databricks、Microsoft、Outsystems 和 Snowflake 等行业合作伙伴支持下产出 26 个可运行原型。
- • 首届"AI 冠军训练营"历时 12 周，涵盖高级提示技术、检索增强生成（RAG）及基于代理的框架，学员须在结营时交付能解决真实机构问题的完整原型。
- • 劳动力新加坡（WSG）在"职业转换计划"中部署大型语言模型工具以评估中途转业职位描述，使人工处理时间最多节省 78%，令公务员得以腾出精力从事更高价值的工作。
- • 2024 年创新日集中体现了国家 AI 2.0 愿景的落地路径——GovTech 旨在整个公共部门大规模建立 AI 能力，使各机构人员能在本机构内自主开发专属于各自领域的解决方案，而非依赖中央统一研发。
完整译文（中文）
MDDI 英文原文译文 · 翻译日期: 2026-06-21
贾尼尔·普图彻里博士（Dr Janil Puthucheary）于2024年11月15日"创新日2024"上的开幕致辞，他现任数字发展与信息部及卫生部高级政务部长，并兼任GovTech主管部长
1. 早上好，欢迎各位来到创新日。
2. 今天有许多令人振奋的亮点：
a. 我们的公务员将展示他们在LAUNCH!计划下开发的原型。LAUNCH!是由GovTech牵头、联合各政府机构及行业合作伙伴（包括AWS、Databricks、Microsoft、Outsystems和Snowflake）推出的一项全新创新计划。
b. 同样，首届AI Champions Bootcamp（ABC）的学员也将展示他们为解决本机构问题而开发的原型。
c. 我们还将举行Data & AI Tournament旗下Prompt Royale竞赛的决赛。这是面向公务员规模最大的全政府提示工程竞赛。
3. 今天大家在此看到的，正是我们国家AI 2.0愿景的生动体现：使新加坡的公民、企业和公共部门员工能够自信、负责任且富有创意地使用AI。就政府而言，我们希望赋予公务员AI技能，使他们能够在各自机构内以及整个新加坡发挥积极影响。
4. 今天，我非常高兴地看到我们取得了如此大的进展——不仅体现在大规模技能提升上，还体现在正确的解决问题的精神，以及私营和公共部门利益相关方的大力支持上。
在政府范围内大规模扩展AI技能
5. 今天的活动是过去数月来75余个机构数千名公务员共同努力的成果。今天大家看到的原型，正说明了政府机构和公务员如何积极响应号召，大规模地开发和应用AI技能。
6. 以Data & AI Tournament（DAT）为例，它经过多年发展，规模大幅扩大，如今已纳入Prompt Royale赛道。
a. DAT于2018年启动，当时约有来自30个机构的400名公务员参与。2023年，GovTech将Prompt Royale纳入DAT，作为一个提示工程赛道，帮助参与者深化提示工程技能。
b. 今年，来自75个机构的逾千名公务员参与了Prompt Royale，其中包括GovTech组织的11场AI工作坊。这些课程聚焦于提示工程、AI聊天机器人设计以及日常实用AI工具的动手操作技能。
c. 通过Prompt Royale赛事，我们看到参与者将提示工程技能应用于各类问题，涵盖优化沟通流程、创作吸引人的内容，乃至应对复杂的数据分析。
7. 同样，在LAUNCH!计划下，我们从公务员处征集到逾600个创意，支持了16场由机构主导的创意马拉松（Ideathon），并举行了3场黑客马拉松冲刺，共开发出26个创新原型，以解决各机构面临的问题。
通过AI培养解决问题的精神
8. 这引出了我下一个要讲的重点，即解决问题的精神。我们使用AI，并非为了使用而使用，而是为了解决各机构和公务员所面临的实际问题。
9. 因此，首届AI Champions Bootcamp（ABC）的设计正是围绕这种解决问题的精神展开的。在12周的密集训练中，学员学习高级提示技巧，以及如何构建基于检索增强生成（RAG）和基于智能体框架的大语言模型（LLM）流水线。最重要的是，学员需在本机构内确定问题陈述，并在结营时开发出完整可运行的原型。
10. 例如，劳动力发展局（Workforce Singapore，WSG）的公务员面临一项挑战：需手动评估职业转换计划（Career Conversion Programme）下中途转业人员岗位的职位描述。为此，WSG开发了一款融入大语言模型（LLMs）的工具，以简化评估流程，最终节省了高达78%的时间。这反过来释放了公务员的时间，使他们得以承担其他增值任务，例如接触更多公司加入该计划，从而最终改善计划的整体成效。
11. 看到我们的公务员如何通过训练营运用所学技能，将创意转化为解决机构实际挑战的方案，我深感鼓舞。我相信他们将把这种解决问题的精神带回各自的机构和日常工作中。
来自机构与行业利益相关方的支持
12. 今天我们看到的各项活动，是GovTech通过创意工坊、黑客马拉松及AI技能提升项目推动创新、提升政府数字能力的努力的一部分。然而，若没有各利益相关方的大力支持，这些努力将无从实现。
13. 我要赞扬参与机构愿意派遣公务员参加这些计划和竞赛。考虑到日常工作的繁忙，这是一项重大承诺，但却是使我们的公务员掌握最前沿AI技能的关键投入。
14. 我尤其要表彰与GovTech合作、通过Prompt Royale X将Prompt Royale扩展至本机构的九个机构，即HDB、HSA、MCCY、MOE、MOM、MSF、MUIS、SCDF和SFA。通过Prompt Royale X，逾550名公务员应对了针对各机构具体需求而定制的提示工程挑战。这带来的是一项极具长远意义、影响深远的成果——不仅仅是由GovTech和MDDI集中开发这些解决方案，更重要的是，你们将这些方法、技术和理念带回，并应用于你们所面临的实际问题，例如为HSA分析献血趋势、为MOE简化家长网关（Parent's Gateway）信函生成流程。所有这些都是机构特定、领域特定的，正是你们汲取这些理念、向在场参与的同事学习的能力，成就了你们各自机构、部门和同事所取得的成果。
15. 同样，我要向我们的行业合作伙伴AWS、Databricks、Microsoft、Outsystems和Snowflake表达诚挚感谢，感谢他们对LAUNCH!计划的宝贵支持。他们的合作伙伴关系对于将优秀创意转化为对公共部门具有深远影响的解决方案至关重要。
16. 最后，我要感谢所有参与创新日的人士，感谢你们的承诺与付出，以及你们对国家AI愿景的践行——建设一个值得信赖、成效显著、以AI赋能的公共服务体系。这段旅程才刚刚开始，我满怀期待地看着你们每一位继续引领AI发展，推动创新，共同打造更优质的公共服务和更美好的新加坡。
英文原文
MDDI 官网原始记录 · 抓取日期: 2026-06-21
OPENING ADDRESS BY DR JANIL PUTHUCHEARY, SENIOR MINISTER OF STATE FOR DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION & HEALTH, AND MINISTER-IN-CHARGE OF GOVTECH AT INNOVATION DAY 2024 ON 15 NOV 2024
1. Good morning everyone and welcome to Innovation Day.
2. There are many exciting highlights today:
a. Our officers will be showcasing their prototypes developed under the LAUNCH! programme. LAUNCH! is a new innovation programme spearheaded by GovTech in collaboration with various agencies and industry partners, including AWS, Databricks, Microsoft, Outsystems and Snowflake.
b. Similarly, participants from the inaugural AI Champions Bootcamp (ABC) will also be showcasing the prototypes they have developed to address problems in their agencies.
c. We also have the Finale of the Data & AI Tournament’s Prompt Royale competition. This is the largest whole-of-government prompt engineering competition for public officers.
3. What you see here today is an illustration of our National AI 2.0 vision: to enable Singapore's citizens, businesses, and public sector workforce to use AI confidently, responsibly, and creatively. Specific to the Government, we hope to empower our officers with the AI skills to make a difference within your agencies and across Singapore.
4. Today, I am thrilled to see how far we’ve come—not only in skills at scale, but with the right problem-solving spirit, and with the support of our private and public sector stakeholders.
Expanding AI Skills at Scale Across Government
5. Today’s event is the culmination of the efforts of thousands of officers from over 75 agencies over the past few months. The prototypes you see today are an illustration of how Government agencies and officers have enthusiastically taken up the call to develop and apply their AI skills at scale.
6. Take for example the Data & AI Tournament (DAT), which has grown significantly over time to include Prompt Royale today.
a. The DAT started in 2018 with about 400 officers from 30 agencies. In 2023, GovTech introduced Prompt Royale as part of the DAT. This is a prompt engineering track which enables participants to deepen their prompt engineering skills.
b. This year, over a thousand officers from 75 agencies took part in Prompt Royale including 11 AI workshops organized by GovTech. These sessions focused on hands-on skills for prompt engineering, AI chatbot design, and practical AI tools for everyday use.
c. Through the Prompt Royale tournament, we have seen participants applying their prompt engineering skills to a wide range of problems, from streamlining communication, to creating engaging content, and even tackling complex data analysis.
7. Similarly, under the LAUNCH! programme, we have gathered more than 600 ideas from public officers, supported 16 agency-led Ideathons and ran 3 hackathon sprints to develop 26 innovative prototypes to solve agency problems.
Fostering the Spirit of Problem Solving through AI
8. This brings me to my next point, which is the spirit of problem solving. We use AI not for the sake of doing so, but to solve problems that our agencies and officers face.
9. The design of the inaugural AI Champions Bootcamp (ABC) was thus focused on this spirit of problem-solving. In 12 intensive weeks, bootcamp participants learn about advanced prompting techniques and how to build LLM pipelines based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-based frameworks. Most importantly, participants identify problem statements in their agencies and develop fully working prototypes by the end of the bootcamp.
10. For example, Workforce Singapore (WSG) officers faced the challenge of having to manually evaluate job descriptions of roles for mid-career individuals under the Career Conversion Programme. To address this, WSG developed a tool incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the evaluation process, resulting in up to 78% time savings. This in turn freed up the officers’ time to take on other value-adding tasks such as engaging more companies to onboard the programme and ultimately improving the outcomes of the programme.
11. I am very encouraged by how our officers have leveraged their skills through the bootcamp to turn ideas into solutions that address real agency challenges. I am certain that they will bring this problem solving spirit back to their agencies and their day-to-day work.
Support from Agency and Industry Stakeholders
12. The activities we see today are part of GovTech’s efforts to drive innovation and uplift Government digital capabilities through ideations, hackathons, and AI upskilling initiatives. However, these efforts would not have been possible without the strong support of our stakeholders.
13. I would like to commend the participating agencies for being willing to send their officers to these programmes and competition. It is a significant commitment, given the day-to-day demands of our work, but it is a critical investment to enable our officers to develop the most up-to-date AI skills.
14. I would particularly like to call out the nine agencies which have partnered GovTech to expand Prompt Royale to their agencies through Prompt Royale X, namely HDB, HSA, MCCY, MOE, MOM, MSF, MUIS, SCDF, and SFA. Through Prompt Royale X, over 550 officers tackled prompt engineering challenges tailored to their agencies’ specific needs. And that is a very long-term, big picture outcome – not just that GovTech and MDDI develops these solutions centrally, but that you are taking these approaches, these technologies and these ideas back and applying them to the problems that you face; such as analysing blood donation trends for HSA and streamlining Parent’s Gateway Letter generation for MOE. All of these are agency specific, domain specific, and it is your ability to take these ideas, learn from colleagues in the room that come and participate, that enable the outcomes for your agencies, for your ministry, for your colleagues.
15. Similarly, I would like to extend my appreciation to our industry partners AWS, Databricks, Microsoft, Outsystems and Snowflake, for their invaluable support for the LAUNCH! programme. Their partnership has been critical to transform great ideas into impactful solutions for the public sector.
16. To conclude, I would like to thank everyone involved in Innovation Day for your commitment and for embodying the National AI vision of a trusted, impactful, AI-enabled public service. This journey is just the beginning, and I am excited to see how each of you continues to lead in AI, driving innovation for a better public service and a better Singapore.