Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew by S. C. Y. Luk P. W. Preston

Author:S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston [S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Modern, 19th Century, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781351019040
Google: P-cLEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-30T03:53:24+00:00

Critical factors for the development of a Smart Nation

It is one thing to announce a policy, but it is another to translate the ideas into practice. In the case of the Smart Nation, three issues are crucial: digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital literacy.

Digital infrastructure

Digital infrastructure is the foundation of a Smart Nation. ‘Advances in digital infrastructure support innovation and allow for the social and economic growth of society’ (Public Digital Infrastructure, n.d.). From 2016 to 2018, the number of Wireless@SG hot spots rose from 10,000 to 20,000 (Baharudin, 2018) to provide people with ‘free Wi-Fi access in public places across Singapore with a surfing speed of up to 5Mbps’ (Wireless@SG, n.d.). By 2020, Singapore will roll out the fifth generation of wireless networks (5G) progressively, with at least half of the nation covered with a standalone network by the end of 2022 (Choudhury, 2019; What’s the Buzz about 5G?, 2019). Minister for Communications and Information, S Iswaran, said that 5G technology and networks would constitute a critical part of Singapore’s digital economy (Kwang, 2019). 5G ‘offers faster connections, more reliability and greater capacity at lower costs’ (Castro, 2019). It will ‘enable various high-bandwidth and low-latency Smart City applications’ (Castro, 2019), including more extensive use of untethered factory robots, rapid roll-out of industrial IoT services and networks for specialized services like port-to-ship communications, more extensive use of drones to deliver services, and mass-scale adoption of AVs (Choudhury, 2019).

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