Singapore / APAC · Governance framework
Singapore AI Gov, trusted
Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework is the reference point for responsible AI across Asia-Pacific — pragmatic, detailed, and widely adopted by regulators and enterprises alike.
- Status
- Published — incl. generative AI edition
- Issued by
- IMDA / PDPC Singapore
- Reach
- Referenced across Asia-Pacific
- Controls in Unorma
- 20
What it is
Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework, in plain language.
Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework translates responsible AI principles into implementable practice across four areas: internal governance structures, determining the level of human involvement in AI-augmented decisions, operations management, and stakeholder interaction and communication.
It carries no penalties — it carries influence. Regulators and enterprises across Asia-Pacific use it as their evaluation baseline, and Singapore's AI Verify testing initiative builds on it. For any company operating in or selling into APAC, alignment is the region's clearest trust signal.
Who it applies to
Companies operating in APAC
The framework is the de facto governance baseline from Singapore outward across the region.
AI vendors selling to APAC enterprise
Buyers reference the framework in due diligence — alignment answers their questions before they ask.
Global compliance programmes
Add APAC coverage to your EU/US frameworks with heavy control overlap, mapped automatically.
Requirements
What Singapore AI Gov actually asks of you.
20 controls in Unorma — each with plain-language guidance, action steps and the evidence you need.
Internal governance
Clear roles, responsibilities and risk structures for AI decisions.
Human involvement
A deliberate, documented choice of human-in/over/out-of-the-loop per use case.
Operations management
Data quality, model selection, robustness and monitoring in production.
Stakeholder communication
Disclosure, explanation and feedback channels for those affected by AI.
Singapore AI Gov in Unorma
From regulation text to audit-ready, in one platform.
All 20 controls with guidance
Plain-language explanations and evidence requirements for every control in the framework.
Human oversight documentation
Unorma's oversight module documents exactly the human-involvement decisions the framework asks for.
Regional + global in one view
Run Singapore alongside EU, US and international frameworks with shared evidence and one readiness dashboard.
Trust profile for APAC buyers
Share a live, verified compliance profile instead of a static PDF in regional procurement.
Track Singapore AI Gov readiness from day one.
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Cross-framework intelligence
Evidence for Singapore AI Gov counts elsewhere too.
~100 cross-framework mappings mean work done once counts toward multiple frameworks automatically.