Network Society

Singapore is city-state country off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, however Just this island country has built a robust and competitive network market. It was one of the first countries that digital telephone network cover all the country. In 2009 the World Economic Forum (WEF) awarded Singapore as ‘Asia’s most connected country,’ which just contributes the success to ICT development. Nowadays, Singapore has become a major global telecommunications hub in the region and is well positioned as a hub for international capacity.

People and organization online: Stage 4

According to the 2010 Infocomm Usage by Households and individuals Survey, the total population of Singapore is 4,987,600. The proportion of resident households with internet and broadband access at home reached 82%. Meanwhile, there are 12% of internet user, who use Smartphone access internet and 3% of internet users use game machine to connect the internet. In those internet users, most of them access internet via broadband, such as ADSL, Cable modern.

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Home and workplace are two the most common places for connecting the internet. Until Dec. 2010, there are 136,700 Corporate Broadband Subscription, and 98.62% of enterprise or institute has internet service.  The reasons for using internet are:

·        Instant Messaging: 24.2%

·        Entertainment: 13.8%

·        Social Networking: 8%

·        Email: 5.7%

·        Online Gaming: 2.4%

·        Search Navigation: 2.3%

·        Blogs: 2.1%

·        Business/Finance: 1.9%

·        Community: 1.5%

·        News/Information: 1.3%

·        Others: 37%

Information & Communication Technologies in everyday life: Stage 4

In the 21 century, ICT provides a quality day life for Singaporean. In some ways, we can say ICT already permeated everywhere of Singapore, which includes Digital Media $ Entertainment, education, Financial Services, health care, tourism & retail, government and community. More and more Singaporean likes shopping-online, E-bank, distance education and entertainment. In 2009, 97.2% of Singaporean download the music from internet and 23% of 3G users used phone video chat with others (By 2009, Singapore has 6.58 million mobile users and a penetration rate of 136%, also Singapore has the lowest telecom prices in the world). Besides this, the proportion of online shoppers5 increased to 40% in 2009 and 17% of online shopper spent $2000 or more online in a year.

 

 

Information & Communication Technologies in the Workplace: Stage 4

In recently two decades, Singapore has implemented an advanced and reliable information technique infrastructure that has met the needs of demands of their economy and society.  Additionally, in the 2008, Singapore launched a plan called “An Intelligent Nation, A Global City, Powered by Infocomm”, which means a seamless, trusted and intelligent infocomm infrastructure will be critical enabler for the vertical sector economies of Singapore to gain a competitive edge in the global market.