Share Your Lifestyle Wish-List in Express IT! iN2015

How does winning $8000 cash prize sound to you? Now this is made even more attractive by simply sharing your lifestyle dreams and desires in a nationwide competition.

As part of IDA's plans to engage everyone who has a stake in Singapore to come forth with their ideas for iN2015, the competition seeks to get the public to share their views on how infocomm technologies can further help them live, work, learn and play in the year 2015.

Called the "Express IT! iN2015" competition, it is organised by IDA with Singapore Computer Society (SCS), Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF), and supported by Ministry of Education (MOE) and Digital Life. The competition is open to everyone living in Singapore. Contestants can express their visions in various formats, including written essays, poems, drawings or illustrations, digital photographs, digital video or multimedia creations, and even songs or audio narrations. The closing date for the submission of entries is Friday 8 July 2005.

The Express IT! iN2015 competition came as Singapore's 10-year ICT masterplan, iN2015 started shifting into the high gears.

A new high-level steering committee led by Mr Lam Chuan Leong, Chairman IDA and assisted by Mr Chan Yeng Kit, CEO IDA was formed. The steering committee comprises 9 key industry and public sector representatives. This committee will lead the development of iN2015 to grow the infocomm sector, use infocomm technologies to enhance the competitiveness of other key economic sectors and to build a well-connected society. The iN2015 masterplan is scheduled to be launched in 2006.

Steering committee members will chair sub-committees that will identify areas of opportunity in key economic sectors, where infocomm technologies can create new value propositions and innovative services to enhance productivity and competitiveness. These sectors include Education & Learning, Financial Services, Healthcare & Biomedical Sciences, Logistics & High-Tech Manufacturing, Digital Media & Entertainment, and Tourism, Hospitality & Retail.

Mr Lam Chuan Leong, Chairman iN2015 Steering Committee said: "Singapore is in a competitive race with other countries. It is no longer a matter of moving first, but a matter of moving faster - ahead of others to stay relevant and competitive. It is all the more important that we take a look at the role that infocomm can play to help Singapore stay highly competitive, to look ahead into the next 10 years, and implement strategic initiatives that will keep Singapore in the fore."