It was restructured from Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) in 2016,[2][3] and officially legislated in Parliament on 18 August that year.

It is the agency that provides the infrastructure to support the implementation of the country's Smart Nation initiative to utilise infocomm technologies, networks and big data to create tech-enabled solutions.

[7] On 1 May 2017, GovTech was moved from the Ministry of Communications and Information to the Prime Minister's Office (Singapore) (PMO).

It is now the implementing agency of PMO's Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO).

[8] On 1 June 2023, Goh Wei Boon replaced Kok Ping Soon as the chief executive of GovTech.