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Li Hongyi is the director of the Open Government Products (OGP) division of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) .[1][2][3]
Li Hongyi | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Employer | Government Technology Agency |
| Parents | |
Career
[edit]Education
[edit]Li studied at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and Raffles Junior College.
In 2006, Li won the Lee Kuan Yew Award for Mathematics and Science and was awarded a Public Service Commission (PSC) Overseas Merit Scholarship to study economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[4] He switched his course of study partway and ultimately majored in Computer Science. [2]
Public service
[edit]Li has held various roles within GovTech, including deputy director of the Government Digital Services Data Science Division,[4] deputy director for data science and AI,[5] deputy director of product and engineering,[6] and director of OGP.
In 2017, a team within GovTech led by Li released Parking.sg, a mobile application which allows drivers in Singapore to pay parking fees digitally instead of using paper parking coupons at all public carparks managed by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) or the Housing Development Board (HDB) that do not have vehicle gantries.[6][7][8]
In 2019, Li founded OGP, a new division within GovTech, with the goal of rapidly building and deploying software products across the Singapore Government. Some of the products produced by OGP include:
- ISOMER, a tool which allows users to easily create secure, mobile-friendly, static websites[9]
- FormSG, a tool for creating digital government forms[10]
- JARVIS, a platform for the Singapore Police Force allowing users to rapidly conduct searches and aggregate information[11]
- ScamShield, a mobile application which identifies and blocks scam SMSes and calls[12][13]
National service
[edit]In 2007, when serving his national service as a Second Lieutenant, Li sent an email to then Minister of Defence Teo Chee Hean, the Chief of Defence Force, the Chief of Army, and hundreds of military personnel alleging that one of his colleagues had been absent without leave (AWOL) on two occasions.
In his email, which exceeded 2,000 words in length, Li criticised the "quality control of officers" in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and asserted that the absent colleague's continued service in the organisation was "an embarrassment". He further wrote that "the SAF is not a charity organisation and does not owe anyone a career".
The Ministry of Defence found that Li had violated the chain of command by sending that email, and formally charged and reprimanded him after a summary trial.[14][15]
Other
[edit]Hongyi worked at Google from 2011 to 2013 as a product manager before returning to Singapore and joining GovTech to serve his six-year bond.[4][16]
Personal life
[edit]Li is the oldest son of Lee Hsien Loong, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, and Ho Ching, the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Temasek Holdings.[14]
Li has stated that he has "no interest in politics". His parents have also denied allegations that they have political ambitions for Li.[4]
In 2021, Li created and released a map of ice cream parlors in Singapore, icecreammap.sg, as a "fun side project". [17]
References
[edit]- ^ "OGP". SGDI. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ a b "#12 - Singapore's Open Government Products - Li Hongyi". techleadjournal.dev. 2020-10-26. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ "Exclusive: Inside Singapore's GovTech Rapid Deployment Unit". govinsider.asia. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ a b c d Tham, Yuen-C (16 June 2017). "PM Lee Hsien Loong's son Li Hongyi says he is not interested in politics". The Straits Times.
- ^ Baharudin, Hariz (13 March 2019). "Technology must be used in tandem with innovative thinking to solve problems: Li Hongyi". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2024-05-20. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ a b "Parking.sg app is a project by GovTech team led by PM Lee's son, Li Hongyi". mothership.sg. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ "ParkingSG". products.open.gov.sg. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ "This GovTech team is the reason you no longer have to use paper parking coupons". GovTech Singapore. 3 April 2018. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018.
- ^ Stolarchuk, Jewel (2019-12-03). "Li Hongyi has founded a new unit within GovTech, with its own branding and style Singapore News". theindependent.sg. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ Zhang, Min (24 June 2019). "GovTech team makes filling online government forms a breeze". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ "Meet the GovTech team that built the Singapore Police Force's JARVIS". www.tech.gov.sg. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ Wong, Shiying (20 November 2020). "New mobile app that blocks scam messages and calls launched". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2024-02-20. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ Devaraj, Samuel (28 September 2022). "Anti-scam app ScamShield now available for Android users". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ^ a b "Singapore PM's son gets army rebuke for e-mail gaffe". Reuters. 10 August 2007.
- ^ Lee, U-Wen (13 July 2007). "SAF acts after email complaint". TODAY. p. 3.
- ^ Kim, Miyoung (14 June 2017). "Singapore leader's siblings say they feel threatened, have lost confidence in him". Reuters.
- ^ Chua, Nigel (25 October 2021). "Li Hongyi creates ice cream website featuring reviews & map of places worth trying in S'pore". mothership.sg. Retrieved 2024-12-28.