Singapore's Information Technology Strategy
Singapore's information technology strategy rests on two major legs. The first leg is world-class basic facilities. Being a city-state, it is relatively easy to connect every home, office and hotel room. Our objective is to provide broad-band everywhere, either wired or wireless. We will make it a readily available utility like water, electricity, gas and telephone. We are well on our way there. We now require, by regulation, every new home to be equipped with broad-band in the same way as it is required to have water and electricity.
The second leg is the education of our entire population in IT (information technology). Like reading, writing and arithmetic, computers are best learnt when we are young. Today's children can click the mouse faster than we can blink. In many countries, children of middle-class families have no difficulty with this new technology. But, without special effort, there is a danger that children of poorer families will miss out on the opportunity to learn IT. Like the piano and violin, one can still learn the computer as an adult. But rarely does one acquire the same facility. The strategy in Singapore is therefore to teach information technology to every child regardless of his family background. The Education Ministry now has a multi-billion dollar programme to provide one computer for every 2 schoolchildren in Singapore from first grade onwards. Every teacher will have a notebook.
Most Singaporeans now understand the importance of IT, if not for themselves, at least for their children and grandchildren. Over 40% of households in Singapore now own PCs. Over one-third of 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 any bank, factory or restaurant, just as one would expect an employee to be able to read, write and count. An employer in Singapore in the future should not have to worry that his employee does not now how to use a computer or the Internet.
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One problem upsets the business of selling clothes online-predicting how a garment will fit without trying it on. Enter the body-measurement suit from Start Today, a Japanese firm that runs the Zozotown platform on which clothing companies from around the world sell their products,as well as its own private brand, Zozo.
In the past years Stan Today has distributed to just over one million Japanese customers,free of charge,its “Zozosuit”, a skin-tight, full-body suit covered in around 350 fiducial markers, small objects that can be used as a point of reference for measurements. Shoppers slip on the suit and slowly rotate as their smartphone takes photos.
The firm uses the images to create a 3D of their body, which it can use to offer a range of customized services. At the most basic level, when customers choose an item from one of the 6.400 brands listed on Zozotown, the platform uses the Zozosuit data lo recommend the right size.
A first，more high tech version of the suit proved too expensive. But its latest version costs the company only V1.000( $ 9) a piece. Besides, the fashion industry has not yet adapted to meet the needs of a generation accustomed to buying everything online, to their specifications and ai their convenience. But the firm offers exactly that.
How the suit gels on is crucial for Start Today s future. The Zozotown platform is the giant of online fashion retail in Japan. It created and dominates the market for online clothing sales. Analysts predict it may be reaching peaks, because customized services could attract more customers. But observers are more cautious about whether the suit can help Start Today on its other path to growth:expanding abroad. Since July customers in 72 countries have been able to request a body-measurement suit to help them buy clothes from the Zozo label. An attempt a few years ago to take the Zozotown platform into China and South Korea (before it came up with the body-measurement suit) failed. For now at least the suit is a unique service.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The application of many electronic devices, like the iPad, has allowed even very little kids to make the use of a computer. Its portability has made it possible for students to get access to the Internet. even in the classroom.
Andrew Benbow works in a Chinese school where every student and all the teaching staff are given a free iPad for study and work in and after class. For him, the obvious advantage of everyone having an iPad is the improvement in mutual communication. Documents can be emailed straight to colleagues whenever needed. Children can submit their homework by email WeChat, or through the virtual learning environment.
Abigale. who is from Liverpool, teaches English at Shanghai Cube Bilingual School? In her school, each teacher is provided with a laptop but only a select few are given iPads. She doesn't believe all the students at school ought to be offered iPads. Some teachers are unwilling to let go of the traditional style of teaching. Meanwhile most students prefer to keep their exercise books and rely on them for handy revision.
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