Imagine streaming high-definition web videos smoothly on your tablet PC via free Wi-Fi at Coney Island, while your smartwatch buzzes whenever necessary to notify you of an imminent thunderstorm. This is just one of many possibilities that will be realised with Infocomm Media 2025, Singapore’s bold vision for her infocomm media sector.
Developed by the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI), the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), this 10-year plan released in Aug 2015, consists of three strategic thrusts:
- Build on the power of data and data insights, advanced communications and computational technologies to catalyse transformation across key sectors of our economy.
- Develop a future-ready workforce that embraces risk-taking and innovation.
- Deploy infocomm media technologies in a people-centric manner.
Given current technological constraints and pragmatic concerns, realising Infocomm Media 2025 is not going to be quick and easy. But within the next decade or so, we are confident that Singapore’s research and development (R&D) efforts will pay off, and produce the promising technologies necessary for Infocomm Media 2025 to be implemented.
