A new agreement between the Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) will pave the way for the establishment of the UITP Center for Transport Excellence for the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore.
With the explosion of social media, Singapore organizations are hard-pressed at making sense of all the unstructured data coming in from various channels to aid them in making business decisions. With this explosion of social data, we expect strong growth in social media analytics.
The London School of Business and Finance has officially opened in Singapore its first campus in the Asia-Pacific region.
Hitachi Asia Ltd. and the Data Storage Institute (DSI) of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) recently entered into a strategic partnership to research a new generation storage system for genome sequencing data.
The public rated Singapore hospitals, polyclinics and national specialty centers highly in the most recent Patient Satisfaction Survey 2010, with nearly 8 out 10 or a high 76 percent saying the services were excellent or good.
GlobalSign, one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in Digital Certificate security, recently announced the opening of its regional office for Southeast Asia to be headquartered in Singapore, as well as the launch of an English-language website dedicated to serving customers in the region and across the neighboring markets.
Speaking at the first Singapore GovCamp, Information, Communication and the Arts, Minister Lui Tuck Yew said that Government 2.0 or Gov 2.0 movement will focus on providing easier access to public information to facilitate two-way communication between a government and its citizens.
Singapore and China are expected to collaborate more closely in developing the Tianjin Eco-city into a model for sustainable development, Singapore's Senior Minister of State for National Development and Education Grace Fu said during the Tianjin Eco-City investment promotion seminar held recently.
The Media Development Authority of Singapore will lead the country's delegation to the British Educational and Training Technology Show 2011 (BETT) in London this month.
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research reported in its government portal that the country’s public expenditure on R&D (PUBERD) recorded a new high of S$2.3 billion or 0.87 percent of gross domestic product GDP in 2009.
