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| Mr TK Udairam, CEO of Changi General Hospital and Chairman of SingHealth Cluster IT
Steering Committee, receiving the NIA from Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information,
Communications and the Arts. |
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Singapore’s largest industrial landlord and
healthcare sector are leading the way in developing
and adopting innovation and IT in the Public Service.
JTC Corporation (JTC), the National University
Hospital (NUH) and SingHealth were recently
awarded the National Infocomm Award (NIA), the
highest accolade for infocomm innovation in Singapore.
JTC won in the category for Most Innovative Use of
Infocomm Technology (Public Sector). NUH and
SingHealth received merit awards in the same category.
(Read about the three award-winning innovations in
the following pages.)
These captains of innovation were among 11 public
and private sector winners honoured at a gala dinner
held on 21 October 2004 with Dr Lee Boon Yang,
Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts,
as the guest of honour.
The biennial awards are
jointly conferred by the
Infocomm Development
Authority of Singapore
(IDA) and the Singapore
infocomm Technology
Federation (SiTF).
There are two award
categories. The first, Most
Innovative Infocomm
Product/Service, recognises
organisations which
develop or provide
innovative infocomm
products or services.
The second category,
Most Innovative Use of
Infocomm Technology,
recognises private and
public organisations
which harness infocomm technologies for greater
effectiveness and efficiency.
This year’s awards drew 146 nominations from a
myriad of industries. The nominees were evaluated
based on the innovativeness of their entries, overall
business strategy, market presence, business impact
created and type of technology used.
Dr Lee said: “We need to increase
efforts to ensure that innovation
is pervasive in all our business
and public sectors. We must plug
into the global innovation
network.”
Sharing about the role of NIA,
Mr Saw Ken Wye, immediate past
Chairman of SiTF and Co-Chair of
NIA 2004, said: “Our national clarion call for
innovation and entrepreneurship has found its best
expression in NIA 2004.”
Mrs Tan Ching Yee, CEO of IDA and Co-Chair of NIA
2004, added: “This year’s NIA
winners are innovation
champions. We hope they will
spur others to put Singapore
infocomm on the regional and
international map.”
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