Singapore’s Information Technology

Singapore’s world class Information Technology infrastructure …

Singapore , a tiny country with limited resources , has transformed itself from a British colony to one of the Asian economic nations registering high economic growth. The limitless world of cyberspace has spawn a new digital global economy. To spur Singapore on to new level of economic growth , the government has identified information technology (IT) as the strategic tool.

Singapore’s main effort in information technology started back in the early 1990’s. Information is everything. We have always pushed the application of information technology to maintain our information advantage in the region. Information technology helps our ports to stay ahead of competition. The greatest push for the use of information technology was in military defense after Singapore became independent in 1965. Today, we push the use of information technology across all sectors in Singapore.

Being a small and compact city-state, it is very much easy to connect every home, office and hotel room. Bandwidth is readily available. Almost every household in Singapore has at least a coaxial connection to a national optical fiber network, which is in turn linked by satellites and undersea cables to all four corners of the world.

Singapore’s level of awareness , acceptance and adoption of Information Technology among the general public is among the best in the world. There is a world-class national information infrastructure , offering high quality services to multi-national companies , financial institutions and the general public.

Most Singaporeans understand the importance of IT, and most households in Singapore now own PCs. Almost all of the households in Singapore already enjoy access to Internet. What we want is for every Singaporean to be computer literate so that he can function effectively in work and in daily life.

All Government ministries and departments now have their own web sites on the Internet. Many applications and transactions are available on-line. The result is that most Singaporeans are now used to the idea of electronic cash which can also be used for public transportation and other transactions.

The ‘Connected Singapore’ vision was launched in March 2003 to take Singapore’s Information Technology development to the next stage.

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