Monday, August 21, 2006

[Singapore] Jazz it up, Singapore / Channel Asia, 21 Aug 2006

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Jasmine Yin
"Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged, in his National Day Rally speech, for Government ministries and agencies to exploit and experiment with new media, to reach out to a growing technologically-savvy population that he dubbed the "digital generation". "We will use the new media: Multi-media, podcasts, vodcasts ... I think our ministries and agencies have to experiment and try it out," he said, citing how agencies overseas such as the United States Marine Corps have turned to popular online community portal MySpace to engage its officers and attract potential recruits. "So, we have to update. We have to try these out." [Gov & Pol; Inf.Tech]