SINGAPORE, Feb 16 — Ghost, the online blogging platform, is heading to Singapore.

The UK non-profit organisation that runs the open source publishing platform will be shutting its UK operations and incorporating it in Singapore “in the next couple of months”.

Founder of Ghost Foundation John O’Nolan made the announcement in a blog post yesterday, saying that the decision is “easily the biggest business change we’ve made to Ghost since it started, and will hopefully give us a much easier time trading internationally!”.

“Singapore is a progressive country with a fast-growing startup scene, and is exceptionally in tune with the times,” he said.

O’Nolan revealed that the team had spent the last year looking for a country that met its list of requirements, which included having a “progressive government with sane accounting”.

He added that “(Singapore) has all our needs covered” and also offered “a great many other benefits”, citing several global rankings that placed Singapore tops for ease of doing business, economic investment potential, best business environment, transparency of government policy making and public trust for politicians. He also noted that the Republic is ranked third in the world for its quality of education and for the least corrupt economy.

O’Nolan started Ghost in 2013 after a campaign on Kickstarter that raised about £196,000 (RM1.2 million) to get the project off the ground.

Between 2012 and last year, Singapore moved up seven places to 10th in an international report which ranked start-up ecosystems. The report by Compass — an automated reporting and benchmarking software provider — was based on publicly available data.

In another report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, technology start-ups alone are projected to contribute 2 per cent of the Singapore’s gross domestic product by 2035. — TODAY