New digital industry office gunning for tech, creative and business jobs in 10,000 target

Digital Industry Singapore chief digital industry officer Kiren Kumar pointed out that the Government has already been working on multiple fronts to upskill local talent and existing PMETs with digital skills across industries. ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN
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SINGAPORE - Shedding more light on the 10,000 jobs that the new Digital Industry Singapore (DISG) government office is expected to create in the next three years, its chief digital industry officer said they would be technology, creative and business jobs.

DISG chief digital industry officer Kiren Kumar told The Straits Times on Friday (July 5) that technology jobs would be in areas such as software development, cyber security, artificial intelligence, data science and cloud computing.

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