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The Singapore state takes charge: Strategizing for the new hi-tech service society
As the Newly Industrializing Economics (NIEs) reach the limits of export-led growth based on cheap labour, they now are confronted with problems of shifting to a hi-tech service economy. This paper delineates the actual processes and problems involved in economic restructuring by examining the strategies of transition used in the specific case of one NIE, that is, Singapore. This paper is divided into three major sections. The first provides the background context from which strategies for restructuring could be viewed while the second section briefly describes the core economic policies supporting Singapore's economic development to facilitate the positioning of information technology (IT) as a strategy for restructuring. The third section deals in detail with technology as a tool for gaining the competitive edge. It first examines the gradual evolution and development of the IT infrastructure in Singapore, a process which culminates in the contemporary development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Following this, the article goes on to describe the actual implementation of a flagship application project as part of the nascent development of the IT sector. Finally, drawing on the experiences of Singapore, some inferences are made about technology as socially constructed phenomenon which would chiefly amplify existing lines of power although on some occasions unintended consequences may follow thus giving the illusory hope that technology's liberating potential can be fully realized.
The Singapore state takes charge: Strategizing for the new hi-tech service society
As the Newly Industrializing Economics (NIEs) reach the limits of export-led growth based on cheap labour, they now are confronted with problems of shifting to a hi-tech service economy. This paper delineates the actual processes and problems involved in economic restructuring by examining the strategies of transition used in the specific case of one NIE, that is, Singapore. This paper is divided into three major sections. The first provides the background context from which strategies for restructuring could be viewed while the second section briefly describes the core economic policies supporting Singapore's economic development to facilitate the positioning of information technology (IT) as a strategy for restructuring. The third section deals in detail with technology as a tool for gaining the competitive edge. It first examines the gradual evolution and development of the IT infrastructure in Singapore, a process which culminates in the contemporary development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Following this, the article goes on to describe the actual implementation of a flagship application project as part of the nascent development of the IT sector. Finally, drawing on the experiences of Singapore, some inferences are made about technology as socially constructed phenomenon which would chiefly amplify existing lines of power although on some occasions unintended consequences may follow thus giving the illusory hope that technology's liberating potential can be fully realized.
The Singapore state takes charge: Strategizing for the new hi-tech service society
Yun, Hing Ai (author)
European Planning Studies ; 7 ; 189-205
1999-04-01
17 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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