Ministry of Digital Development and Information

Social media safeguards should address children’s access to content: Josephine Teo

(From right) Psychiatrist Lim Choon Guan, Minister of State Rahayu Mahzam, Minister Josephine Teo, TOUCH Community Services chief executive James Tan, speaking during a panel moderated by ST associate editor Karamjit Kaur on July 25.

MDDI to have group discussion with parents on plans to make social media safer for kids

The focus group discussion aims to raise public awareness of societal efforts in building child-safe digital environments.

Age-based access, safer system design on social media needed to protect S’pore youth: Forum

Panellists discussed making social media child-safe during a forum discussion at NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House on July 17.

Use of dialects in film classification framework being reviewed

The Mandarin-dubbing of Teochew dialect film Dear You sparked discussion on Singapore’s film guidelines.

Online Safety Commission offers hope, but victims want process simplified

The commission offers an alternative for those who encounter inadequate, delayed or unhelpful responses from social media platforms over harms encountered online.

Making online spaces safer takes more than just restrictions, say S’pore youth

Youth participants, along with Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Rahayu Mahzam, discussing how social media should be regulated in Singapore at an engagement session organised by the ministry on July 4.

Major data centres, cloud providers could be fined up to $1m under proposed Digital Infrastructure Bill

2 websites linked to digital news portal The Online Citizen required to comply with POFMA sanctions

The notices are aimed at alerting viewers that the sites have “a record of communicating falsehoods”, said the Ministry of Digital Development and Information.

New pilot trials AI-powered translations of online govt resources in Chinese, Malay and Tamil

The team behind Polyglot, (from left) Muhammad Shazli Bin Shahril Shintaro, Aakash Gupta, Harish Venkatesan, Goh Zong Han, Hsu Zhong Jun.

David Koh, Singapore’s first cybersecurity chief, retires on July 1

David Koh has spearheaded numerous initiatives that strengthened Singapore’s national cybersecurity framework since he became CSA chief executive in April 2015.

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