Singapore Case

Technology.

The second thing that the government is pushing would be education. Singapore is well-known for the literacy of citizen in Asia and now they want the children to have better ideas about information technologies. Because the Education Ministers believed that once the people are left behind, it will become an inability and as long-term, it turns into disability. The reasons are most of the children in middle-class or above families have better access to information technologies which is unlikely for the poorer children. As the strategy is prepare all the population for the IT world, so the education department does not want anyone to miss out, so they decided to offer IT learning from first grade onwards and also prepare one computer for every two children, so the new generation will become the high-tech generation. Over 78.2% of household in Singapore own at least one computer and almost 71% enjoy access to internet which explained the Singaporean realized the importance of Information Technology. Most of the bank, factory and companies are changing the system to be more high-tech, so the employers would expect higher literacy of IT from the employees just same as the expectation of reading, writing and counting. So the message behind is the government is pushing the higher computer literacy of the population so the more competitive they would be.

The third major thing Singapore doing is the electronic commerce. The development is in the stage of applying the laws and regulation to protect the contracts and enforcement. It is because the importance of protecting every parties in Cyberspace. Also there is no privacy protection, the electronic commerce can not be applied in that country, so the regulation of digital signature ensure the trustworthy of Singapore being the IT hub in Asia.

In 2007, Singapore is ranked 31st of Internet host and the exports are heavily in information technological