To continually meet the challenge of doing more with less, we need to improve the capacity of public agencies and public officers through greater sharing of processes, data, and systems across the Government.

The Singapore Government Enterprise Architecture (SGEA), a blueprint to identify potential business areas for inter-agency collaboration, will lead the way to reap greater efficiencies. It will also set data and application standards to facilitate sharing of information and systems across agencies.  An instantiation of SGEA would be the consolidation of common Finance and Human Resource services to public agencies under VITAL.org - Centre for Shared Services to bring about greater economies of scale for the public sector.

Infocomm will also be exploited to transform the way public officers work, and to create solutions that address the common challenges they face.  For example, we can leverage on mobile technologies to allow officers to work from anywhere and deploy collaborative desktop tools to support work across departments and agencies.  By 2010, a service-wide Standard ICT Operating Environment (SOE) will also be implemented to derive significant cost savings while enhancing operating efficiency. This will make it easier to maintain and roll out new applications to all desktops, and establish a stronger corporate identity. 

We will also foster an environment that encourages innovative use of Infocomm and continue to invest in innovative application of new technologies to reap the full benefits that Infocomm has to offer.