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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>For your information.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>BaoHui<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><a href="http://digital.asiaone.com.sg/news/20060621_001.html">http://digital.asiaone.com.sg/news/20060621_001.html</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>S'pore to treble infocomm exports to
$60b by 2015 <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Ambitious
10-year masterplan also sees creation of 80,000 jobs <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By Roland Lim - 21
June 2006 <br>
The Business Times <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>(<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">SINGAPORE</st1:place></st1:country-region>) <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region>
unveiled its ambitious 10-year infocomm masterplan yesterday. It sets out to
treble infocomm export revenue to $60 billion, double the industry's
value-added to $26 billion, and create 80,000 new jobs by 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>As part of the
iN2015 masterplan which was unveiled by Minister for Information, Communications
and the Arts Lee Boon Yang at the opening ceremony of the Infocomm and Media
Business Exchange (imbX), the government also wants to put a computer in all
households with school-going children, and increase the number of households
with broadband Internet access from the current 55 per cent to 90 per cent by
2015. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A further target
is to get 90 per cent of all businesses with more than 10 employees, on
broadband. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/mnt/html/pdf/LeeBoonYangspeech_jun20.htm"
target="_blank"><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Read the full text of Dr Lee Boon Yang's speech</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>At a press
conference later, chief executive of the Infocomm Development Authority of
Singapore (IDA), Chan Yeng Kit, said that the amount of investment from the
government into iN2015 will be 'multi-billion dollars'. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He said an exact
figure was not available, as many of the initiatives were still being worked
on. In May, the government announced a $2 billion e-Government masterplan for
the next five years, which is an integral part of iN2015. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr Lee highlighted
four key strategies which are expected to help <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region> achieve the goals set out
by iN2015, the first of which was the building of the Next Generation National
Infocomm Infrastructure (NGNII). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>First announced in
March, the NGNII will consist of a new ultra-high speed wired network and an
island-wide wireless broadband network. Dr Lee said IDA had already received
proposals from local and foreign providers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The second key
strategy is to help the local infocomm industry internationalise and export its
IT products and services. 'One such marketable product is <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s e-Government
solutions,' Dr Lee said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>To further <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region>'s leadership in the e-Government
space, Dr Lee also revealed that IDA, the National University of Singapore's <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Systems Science</st1:PlaceName>
and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy will be setting up the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region>
e-Government Leadership Centre later this year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The centre will
offer research, consulting and education services in the area of e-Government. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The third strategy
is to develop and nurture infocomm talent here to take on higher value-added
activities. 'We will nurture a pool of techno-strategists who have both the
technical and business expertise to achieve organisational goals through
strategic and innovative use of infocomm,' said Dr Lee. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of the 80,000 jobs
that iN2015 expects to add, 55,000 will be infocomm jobs, while 25,000 will be
supporting jobs in the infocomm industry. The IDA says there are currently
about 115,000 infocomm jobs in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The last key
strategy of iN2015 is to focus on seven key industries where infocomm technologies
could provide a competitive advantage to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s economy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The seven sectors
identified were: digital media and entertainment; education and learning;
healthcare and biomedical sciences; manufacturing and logistics; tourism,
hospitality and retail; financial services and government services. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr Lee said that
the new iN2015 plan was a culmination of a year of input and feedback culled
from the public and private sectors and the general public. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He added that
beyond exploiting infocomm technologies for economic competitiveness, the
government will be exploring ways to use infocomm technologies to help the
elderly, less-privileged and people with disabilities, for example by
redesigning jobs to accommodate them. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Initial feedback
from the local infocomm industry was, as expected, positive. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Patricia Yim,
managing director of IBM Singapore, said: 'The iN2015 masterplan reflects the
visionary leadership of the Singapore government to leverage technology and
other capabilities in integrated and innovative ways that will also benefit
Singapore's standing in the global economy.' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chong Yoke Sin,
chief executive of SingTel's IT services arm NCS, said: 'This next phase of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s IT
development is going to be an exciting one. NCS sees more government and
business services turning 'i' which means that every one will be able to access
them through a myriad of mobile devices, any time and anywhere.' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>ZHANG, BaoHui (</span></font><font size=4
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SimSun;color:black'>Õű¦»Ô</span></font><font size=4 color=black><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>), PhD, Assistant professor<br>
Learning Sciences and Technology (LST) Academic Group<br>
Learning Sciences Lab (LSL)</span></font><font color=black><span
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