Open Government Products
Kai Elmer Sotto is an experienced advisor and co-founder with a robust background in technology and community building. Currently serving as an Advisor for Open Government Products since October 2022, Sotto contributes to the Singapore government's experimental development team focused on enhancing public welfare through technology. As an Advisor at Substack since March 2021, Sotto supports writer success after the acquisition of People & Company, which Sotto co-founded in November 2016. Additionally, Sotto has held advisory roles at Wavemaker Partners and played significant growth roles at Instagram and Facebook, focusing on international expansion and business development in the Asia Pacific region. Sotto obtained a BA in Economics from the University of Toronto between 1990 and 1994.
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Open Government Products
Open Government Products is an in-house team of engineers, designers, and product managers who build technology for the public good. We proactively identify areas where technology can help, test our prototypes with actual users, and bring our best ones to launch. This includes everything from building better frontend applications for citizens, to automating the internal operations of public agencies. We use and release open source software, keep a flat hierarchy, and bypass bureaucracy to focus on delivery. We work on real problems, build for the user, and push for change. Projects we have worked on include: FormSG - A form builder tool for agencies to self-service and create online forms that capture classified data, with the goal of replacing paper forms. Data.gov.sg - An open repository of all the Singapore Government’s public data. It helps people understand the data using visualizations and articles, and provides real-time APIs for developers to use. Parking.sg - A mobile app alternative to parking coupons. It lets users pay, extend, and refund their parking sessions just using their phones. Isomer - An end-to-end informational site builder for the government. We are a division in GovTech Singapore.