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Central Government, E-Government

Singapore’s e-govt footprint reaches Trinidad & Tobago

By Alice Kok | 15 December 2008

To foster co-operation and facilitate the exchange of knowledge in the area of ICT development, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

Besides promoting co-operation between Singapore and Trinidad and Tobago in the area of ICT development, the MOU will faster the implementation and roll-out of e-Government systems and services in Trinidad and Tobago over the next five years, in support of Trinidad and Tobago’s National ICT Strategy, fastforward—a national ICT visionon transforming the country into a knowledge-based society by 2008.

Trinidad and Tobago is aggressively pursuing an agenda to achieve Developed Country Status by the year 2020. Launched in 2003 with a mandate to bring connectivity across Trinidad and Tobago, fastforward will shift its focus over the next three to five years to increasing ICT uptake and usage as a key enabler for national objectives such as more effective government, competitive business, and innovative people.

In conjunction with the MOU, the Honourable Kennedy Swaratsingh, Minister of Public Administration, is in Singapore for a three-day visit encompassing Singapore’s Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (MICA), and other government ministries and agencies.

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