Singapore’s Read to Lead launch puts source-checking and AI literacy on the workplace agenda

Singapore’s Ministry of Digital Development and Information says KPMG and the National Library Board have launched Read to Lead: Building an AI-Ready Mind, a year-long workplace initiative centred on reading, information literacy and digital literacy.

In the launch speech, Minister of State Rahayu Mahzam cited an NLB dipstick poll of 1,150 PMETs. The speech said about four in 10 respondents checked the original source of a statistic before forming an opinion, while about three in 10 identified the less reliable of two written passages.

MDDI said the initiative begins with a Knowledge Week from 14 to 16 July and is intended to help professionals and businesses sharpen AI literacy and the way they evaluate information. The programme’s stated scope is capability-building, not a measure of later workforce outcomes.

What to watch

For employers, the useful signal is the explicit connection between AI adoption and the habits of source checking, judgment and careful reading. Those claims remain attributed to the ministry’s speech and the named initiative.