What the Model AI Governance Framework and its Generative-AI edition ask of businesses — voluntary guidance, not law — and how to apply the dimensions in practice.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Singapore’s main AI-specific guidance is the Model AI Governance Framework and its Generative-AI edition. It is not law, but adopting it is a practical way to govern AI responsibly. Here is what it asks.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Traditional AI MGF | First released 2019, updated 2020 (PDPC/IMDA) |
| GenAI edition | Finalised 30 May 2024 — 9 dimensions |
| Agentic-AI edition | Launched 22 January 2026 |
| Status | Voluntary guidance, not binding law |
What the framework is
The Model AI Governance Framework (MGF) for traditional AI was first released in 2019 and updated in 2020 by the PDPC and IMDA. The Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI was finalised on 30 May 2024 by IMDA and the AI Verify Foundation, setting out nine dimensions for a trusted GenAI ecosystem. All editions are voluntary — guidance that complements existing law, not regulation.
Why adopt it anyway
Even though it is not binding, the framework maps closely to obligations you already have under the PDPA and to where governance expectations are heading. Adopting it now is good governance, signals trustworthiness to customers, and reduces later rework.
Putting it into practice
Translate the dimensions into your AI projects: accountability, data governance, testing, transparency, human oversight and incident management. osFoundry is a model-agnostic, bring-your-own-key (BYOK) AI orchestration platform — usage-based pricing with no per-seat fees, local-first and self-hostable, with per-region data pinning (US, EU or Japan) or deployment into your own cloud. Its audit logging and configuration controls map to several dimensions. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Singapore managed region (its nearest managed region is Japan). For data that must stay in Singapore, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Singapore cloud region such as AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1, Microsoft Azure Southeast Asia (Singapore) or Google Cloud asia-southeast1 (Singapore), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Singapore businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.