Singapore Pools Collaborates with NCSS to Boost Digitalisation Journey of Social Service Sector

Singapore Pools has always been at the forefront of innovating and engaging our community partners in meaningful and impactful initiatives. 

We are passionate about helping the social service sector level-up their digitalisation journey and to harness its benefits to improve their back-office processes. Most Social Service Agencies (SSAs) face challenges in improving productivity and social service delivery due to their inability to adopt and use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) well in their back offices. They are also facing increasing pressure to secure their IT systems and personal data from cyber threats. Coupled with high costs of ICT equipment and services, lack of readily available professional advice and expertise to manage their IT investment and infrastructure - most SSAs lag behind in their digitalisation journey.

To address these challenges and enable the SSAs to help others better, Singapore Pools worked with the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) to incorporate a Company Limited by Guarantee, named iShine Cloud Limited (with no commercial interests), to offer integrated sector-specific IT solutions at an affordable rate and enable the SSAs to achieve technology-assisted productivity gains for their back-office processes.

Launched at the Social Service Summit on 24 July 2018, iShine Cloud aims to improve the productivity, governance and efficiency of the back-end operations of SSAs, thus enabling them to focus on serving their beneficiaries better. To know more about iShine Cloud and the services it provides, please visit its website here.