What are Digital Utilities?
Digital Utilities are foundational digital services provided by the Government, enabling citizens and businesses to transact seamlessly, securely, and with trust in the digital economy. As part of this suite of services, there are four key digital solutions that support broad-based digitalisation, reinforcing Singapore’s position as a leading global digital hub and advancing business ecosystems.
Digital Identity
How do people and enterprises identify themselves in digital transactions?
E-Payments and E-Invoicing
How do we pay and get paid digitally?
Document Attestation
How do we check the authenticity of digital documents?
Data Exchange
How do we exchange digital information in a trusted and secure manner?
These digital solutions include:
National Digital Identity
Accessed via Singpass and Corppass, the National Digital Identity (NDI) is a digital identity system that provides a trusted environment for individuals and businesses to transact digitally. From checking CPF balances to signing documents and facilitating cross-border business transactions, NDI enables seamless and secure access to both public and private sector services.
InvoiceNow
Built on the international Peppol standard, InvoiceNow is a nationwide e-invoicing network that allows businesses to seamlessly send and receive e-invoices across different financial systems, significantly improving productivity in invoice processing. Businesses can tap into a wide range of InvoiceNow services offered by InvoiceNow-Ready Solution Providers (IRSPs) and Access Point Providers (APs).
E-Apostille
The e-Apostille initiative by SAL and IMDA, enables instant digital authentication of public documents for international use. Users can upload documents to obtain an e-Apostille certificate within minutes through online submission. The e-Apostille framework adheres to World Wide Web Consortium’s Verifiable Credentials (W3C VC) standard, ensuring worldwide compatibility. Singapore is among the first nations to implement such digital document authentication, offering enhanced efficiency and security for both individuals and businesses.
SingVC
SingVC is a trusted platform, jointly developed by Red Date and Accredify with support from IMDA. SingVC enables the issuance, storage and verification of Digital Identity and Verifiable Credentials (DIVCs) from both government and business sources, and is built on World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. Integrating Singpass authentication and IMDA’s TrustVC Library, SingVC anchors secure, real-name digital identities (sgDIDs). SingVC is currently operating in a sandbox environment and we invite interested participants to be part of this trial. Sign up for the SingVC trial here.
TradeTrust
TradeTrust is a framework that enables secure, interoperable, global exchanges of electronic trade documents for businesses and governments across various digital trade platforms. As an open-source, internationally compliant framework aligned with global standards like the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR), it tackles key challenges such as fragmented systems, document fraud, high operational costs, and lack of interoperability that organisations may face – helping them stay competitive in an increasingly digital trade landscape.
Forming a core part of Singapore’s Digital Connectivity Blueprint and the broader Singapore Digital Utility Stack (SGDUS), the Data Exchange offers a sector-agnostic, foundational data infrastructure for secure and efficient data sharing between businesses and their ecosystem partners. Businesses can manage their digital information through a single point of connection and further aggregate and disseminate data to innovate, build and deliver industry-specific services and offerings from this infrastructure layer.
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