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To ensure no one gets left behind as Singapore becomes more digitally connected, the Government will be setting up a new digitalisation office to double down on outreach efforts to the hardest-to-reach segments of society and encourage them to adopt digital tools.
This new SG Digital Office (SDO) will recruit 1,000 digital ambassadors by the end of June to help stallholders and seniors learn how to use digital tools – skills which the Government says are more important than ever, given disruptions caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
These ambassadors will cover all 112 hawker centres and wet markets in June to encourage stallholders to adopt SGQR codes for e-payment and to avoid having to handle cash, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Ministry of Communications and Information said in a joint release on Sunday (May 31).
The SGQR code lets stallholders receive payments through 19 different providers, such as Dash, GrabPay and local bank offerings such as PayLah.
This outreach will be ramped up in July to include coffee shops and industrial canteens.
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