{"id":20836,"date":"2016-01-17T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/ida-and-mda-to-be-restructured-in-second-half-of-2016"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:00:09","slug":"ida-and-mda-to-be-restructured-in-second-half-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/ida-and-mda-to-be-restructured-in-second-half-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"IDA and MDA to be restructured in second half of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ida-and-mda-to-be-restructured-in-second-half-of-2016.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WOW! Singapore is heavily investing in their own Government to stay ahead of the cutting edge technologies especially around AI, Robotics, IoT, and other NextGen on the Horizon. I foresee the rest following suit. Currently we have the US, Australia, Canada, UK (last week on Quantum &amp; AI), Japan, China, Russia, and now Singapore investing heavily in NextGen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) announced on Monday (Jan 18) that the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) will be restructured to form two new organisations. They will become the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) and the Government Technology Organisation (GTO).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.asiaone.com\/news\/singapore\/ida-and-mda-be-restructured-second-half-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOW! Singapore is heavily investing in their own Government to stay ahead of the cutting edge technologies especially around AI, Robotics, IoT, and other NextGen on the Horizon. I foresee the rest following suit. Currently we have the US, Australia, Canada, UK (last week on Quantum &amp; AI), Japan, China, Russia, and now Singapore investing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51158,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions\/51158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}