Covid-19 tech heroes recognised for racing against the clock to help fight pandemic in S'pore

There were 13 winners for this year's Tech Heroes From Crisis awards. There were also seven winners from last year's IT Leader Awards recognised on Thursday as the 2020 ceremony had to be postponed owing to Covid-19. The winner of the IT Youth award for 2020 was Mr Goh Jin Qiang, a system analyst at the Urban Redevelopment Authority. When Mr Goh, 29, was a student assistant at an infocomm tech lab in the SMU in 2019, he led an initiative called Project ShineSeniors. It analysed data on senior citizens living alone in their homes to try to improve their well-being.