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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN GOVERNANCE, RISK & DATA BREACH MANAGEMENT

Course Objectives

This PC will equip learners with the following competencies:

  • Data Protection Management
  • Cyber and Data Breach Incident Management
  • Data Governance
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Business Risk Management

It will provide the professional knowledge and skills to meet regulatory requirements under the Personal Data Protection Act (2020) Singapore.


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TOWARDS BETTER DATA DRIVEN BUSINESS

This course is intended for Sales, Marketing and Human Resource executives where they will learn to make use of the Business Intelligence (BI) tool , made available by the Infocomm Media Development Authority – IMDA, to help them derive business values from the data they have about their product sales, customers and employees. The objective is to equip executives with the knowledge and ability to create a baseline set of visual dashboard and generate actionable insights using IMDA’s BI tool and be aware of the data protection practices to be incorporated when using data for analytics.
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SGUnited Skills Programme:
Data Protection Officer (DPO)

A New Capability in a Digital World

This programme will prepare professionals and individuals seeking new skillsets and potentially new career in the exciting area of Data Protection.

You can get up to $1,200* training allowance monthly while you learn through our SGUnited Skills Programme.

Follow this link to SGUS Programme and select Data Protection Officer job role to apply:

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*programme is currently closed

I had a great experience with the training from ACT:DPI Pte Ltd. There are so many things you want to know and do well about PDPA and Data Protection, and one couldn’t possibly learn it on their own, and that’s where Yong Chye and his team make the difference.
I congratulate them for bringing the whole experience as DPO into the training and outlining the program with real-life scenarios in the assignment. It isn’t about making PDPA easy for us just in class, but we can also apply them as DPO. – Casey Chen, SGUS Program – Data Protection Officer
e2i Supported Programme :
100 Days of a newly appointed DPO

This course is intended to equip newly appointed Data Protection Officers (DPOs) or staff appointed to perform Data Protection functions with the necessary DP knowledge and skills to carry out their functions in line with the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA).

Eligible participants can apply for e2i (up to 50% subsidy) and/or UTAP support.

Course will be conducted by well qualified trainer who was previously a Deputy Director with the Personal Data Protection Commision (PDPC)

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This course not only met my need in terms of knowledge and skills needed as a DPO but also gave me a very clear picture of what a DPO is supposed to do and will be confident holding such a post.
– Teo YZ, First 100Days of a Newly Appointed DPO

CUSTOMISED TRAINING

We provide specialized/customized trainings on data protection with the aim of developing the skills and competencies of data protection professionals and executives so that they can develop and implement their data protection initiative effectively. These competencies include:

Data Protection Management

Data Breach
Management

Data Protection Governance, Risk and Audit

Data protection in Technologies

Stakeholders
Management

Our Trainer

ACTDPI-Yong Chye

Loh Yong Chye

Yong Chye is the CEO and Co-founder of ACT:DPI Pte Ltd and is also an adult educator specializing in PDPA training. He holds an Advanced Certificate in Learning & Performance (ACLP) and is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). He is the chief trainer and designer of the six-month programme for the SG United Skills Programme for Data Protection Officer (SGUS-DPO). This programme is a collaboration between ACT:DPI and NTUC Learning Hub. It commenced in March 2021 with 38 PMETs undergoing this programme to become DPOs. Yong Chye was with the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) since 2013. Notable achievements during his 6-year stint in PDPC included:
  • Successful rollout of both the “Fundamentals of the PDPA” course and the “Practitioner Certificate for Personal Data Protection (Singapore)” preparatory course and examination module;
  • Completion of the DPO competency framework and training roadmap, which was officially launched by the Minister of Communications and Information in Jul 2019;
  • Development of multiple DP tools, resources and services to help organisations, especially SMEs and non-profit organisations seeking to comply with the PDPA; and
  • Having led the DPO team responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the DP policies and procedures within the PDPC, as well as, the communications and outreach team to create awareness of, and promote compliance to, the PDPA in the initial years
Prior to joining the PDPC, Yong Chye did a 4-year overseas stint with the IDA International (a subsidiary of then-IDA) where he provided eGov consulting services to the governments of Bhutan, Trinidad and Tobago and Moldova. In the earlier years of his career at the then-IDA, he was the divisional head in charge of organisation development and excellence, and an IT manager of a government agency.
ACTDPI-Francis Yeo

Yeo Thian Kee

MSc in Skills & Workforce Development. BSc in Computer Information System. Diploma in Adult Continuing Education (DACE). Advance Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA). Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection (Singapore) 2020 – PDPC.

Francis is currently the Chief Partnership Officer and Co-founder of ACT:DPI Pte Ltd. He holds an Associate Adult Educator (AAE) status with IAL/SUSS with professional qualification of ACTA & DACE with academic qualification of a BSc in CIS and a MSc in SWD.

Francis is a Certified Information Privacy Managers (CIPM) where he can deliver advisory and training services for data protection. Concurrently, Francis is an Associate Career Coach with NTUC e2i on a part-time basis to advise clients on their career path and assist them in employment services.

During his 8-year service as a General Manager with NTUC LearningHub (LHUB) from Feb 2013 to August 2020, he lead the LHUB team in the Data Protection projects that included but not limited to the following:

  • To the successful launch of 18 NICF ICT courses under WDA/MDA in late 2013. Those ICT courses covered cyber-security, network management & database management for ICT professional critical towards data protection approach.
  • Successful secured the appointment by PDPC for LHUB to deliver the “Fundamentals of the PDPA” course at the initial launch in 2014.
  • In 2018, LHUB team won the bid from PDPC to the design, develop and manage the examination system for the “Practitioner Certificate for Personal Data Protection (Singapore)”
  • Started collaboration with PDPC towards the courseware development for the DPO competency framework and training roadmap, which was officially launched by the Minister of Communications and Information in July 2019;

Since 1978, prior to joining LHUB, Francis had acquired four decades of work experience in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) companies serving key customers in a wide range of industries. He is a seasoned strategic consultant, business advisor and senior manager with hands-on experience. Francis has held many different senior manager positions within MNC organizations and corporations over the last few decades.

FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

“I attended Yong Chye’s training on PDPA and he speaks from a position of authority. His depth of PDPA goes beyond the legislation; a given, granted his extensive background. He expertly weaves these PDPA obligations into real life examples and how challenging it can be to put them into practice. I thoroughly enjoyed the lessons as it is very structured, never once I felt lost, everything is where it should be. I can follow his slides along with the Learning Guide, such ease! It’s the small things that Yong Chye put in that makes trainees pay attention, instead of getting distracted with poorly organised slides. Thanks! Yong Chye will be my go-to person if there’s any PDPA discussions!”

RANDY LIM / PDPA trainee

SGUS Program – Data Protection Officer

I had a great experience with the training from ACT:DPI Pte Ltd. There are so many things you want to know and do well about PDPA and Data Protection, and one couldn’t possibly learn it on their own, and that’s where Yong Chye and his team make the difference. I congratulate them for bringing the whole experience as DPO into the training and outlining the program with real-life scenarios in the assignment. It isn’t about making PDPA easy for us just in class, but we can also apply them as DPO. – Casey Chen

I attended the Data Protection Officer Course conducted by ACT:DPI. The course covered all aspects of a Data Protection Officer’s role. The training included both data protection regulations as well as the implementation of data protection policies and procedures. I was equipped at the end of the course with the necessary tools and skills to be a good Data Protection Officer.  I also like to thank my trainer Mr Loh Yong Chye who is very dedicated in his mission to equip us all with data protection skills while making the training sessions both engaging and enjoyable. – Karen Tan

Dear Francis and Yong Chye, 

I would like to thank both of you for training me in the discipline of personal data protection during the last four months. Your passion and your professionalism for PDP were very evident and I thoroughly enjoyed every session conducted by both of you. You took the time and effort to ensure that we fully grasp the PDP concept and, more importantly, the why, which allowed us to apply better what we learned and be more effective. You came up with many nuggets and mindmaps (over and above the learning guides) to allow us to understand better and remember what was taught and how to apply them. You willingly shared your experiences and thoughts about some policies and processes, making the sessions enjoyable. 

The capstone projects were also exciting and fun and they allowed us to showcase what we learned. The projects in Capstone reflected the real-world situation and provided us with templates that we can readily apply when we embark on the DPO journey.  

I am very inspired by the passion and dedication you showed us and I think there are so much more that can be done for the PDP profession and training. 

Thank you very much and all the best! – Shaun Han

I started out with zero knowledge about Data protection. With the intensive but fun lessons and capstones gave me a full in depth understanding. Thank you very much to Yong Chye and Francis who are always so patient and very generous in sharing their knowledge. – Belinda

First 100Days of a Newly Appointed DPO

This course not only met my need in terms of knowledge and skills needed as a DPO but also gave me a very clear picture of what a DPO is supposed to do and will be confident holding such a post. – Teo YZ

The “First 100 Days of DPO” course was conducted with coaching sessions, well-paced projects, and follow up webinars, helping the DPO who are trying to kick start the Data Protection Journey work in their organization. – Thomas H

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