The intelligent city: singapore achieving the next lap

Abstract

Singapare has become one of the Asian dragons, or newly industrializing economies (NIEs), and aspures tobecome a developed country over the next lap of 30-40 years. Its economic restruchuring to become an intelligent' city-state thrwing on manufacturing cum-services is spported by entigtened human resource development which has hanessed infosrmeation technology and telecommunications (IT&T). The success of Singapore as an intelligent city' is not only driven by companies but also bu clear-sighted govenmnent stratgies. In the next lap, IT&T is envisaged as upgrading the quality of life too.