158 March 2021
SINGAPORE POOLS PRIVATE LIMITED
Leveraging on IT infrastructure
to help charities digitalise
Singapore Pools has always aspired to be
a “Company for Good” and is committed to
leverage their strengths to achieve this goal.
Leveraging their technology capital and IT
expertise to benefit the community, Singapore
Pools set up iShine Cloud in 2018.
iShine Cloud is a charity that provides other
charities with an affordable and integrated suite
of charity-specific solutions via a secure cloud-
based IT platform. Using Singapore Pools’
IT infrastructure, as well as other resources,
iShine Cloud aims to improve the productivity,
governance and efficiency of operations of
charities, thus enabling them to focus on better
serving their beneficiaries.
With iShine Cloud, Singapore Pools is
able to help keep charities running amid the
COVID-19 crisis. While the rest of Singapore
forges ahead with various Smart Nation
initiatives, the nonprofit sector has been
struggling to pick up the pace. Digitisation
is therefore paramount to address these
challenges.
iShine Cloud has since onboarded 31
charities with 1,512 users and is looking
to expand its solutions and support more
charities in the future.
2021 and Beyond
Yeo is always looking for the next project. He
admits that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
a few strategic goals weren’t accomplished
in 2020. “Because of COVID-19, things were
obviously slower last year; instead of nine
or 10 megaprojects, we only did five. Having
said that, we still managed to go ahead with
some essential projects,” he says. “This year,
we will continue on our journey to upgrade
and consolidate our major systems, bringing
in our global partners to help us move
forward and improve.”