1. Singapore’s Interactive Digital Media Industry gets a boost
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, together with the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), have officially launched the new NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Centre.
This was announced by DPM Wong Kan Seng at the sidelines of the China-Singapore Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation. [...]
Good Showing by IDMPO-funded companies at Emerging Enterprise 2010 Awards
Two IDMPO-funded companies were recognized at the recently-concluded Emerging Enterprise 2010 Awards. Multimedia surveillance and intelligence company KAI Square won top honours as one of the three winners, while gaming company Tyler Projects emerged as one of the 15 finalists. The Emerging Enterprise Awards is one [...]
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew Declares Official Opening of the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language
The Media Development Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 17 November 2009 at the official opening of the SCCL, officiated by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, to collaborate on research [...]
MDA and industry partners seek innovation to shape the future of books and virtual worlds
As part of the Future of Media initiative, the Media Development Authority (MDA) has once again marshalled leading industry players to collaborate, aiming to stake a claim in the high growth sectors of online publishing and virtual worlds through the calling [...]
Keio-NUS CUTE Centre Invents World’s First Social Networking Robot for Children
IDMPO funded research centre, Keio-NUS CUTE Centre, has developed the World’s first social networking robot for children. Petimo is selected by an international review panel as one of the best three submissions for the Como for Children (C4C) design competition held at The 8th [...]
IDMPO is committed to match innovative services to key demand drivers, and has brought together a handful of demand drivers who will anchor the growth of IDM services. A good number of our projects have been selected for implementation in national agendas such as the National Day Parade, Youth Olympic Games and the National Heritage [...]
Calls of FutureTV and FutureGame
Shaping a New Generation of Visual Media Experiences through FutureTV Initiative
Major players of the interactive digital media industry have joined forces to form a FutureTV partner network that will see its members leverage on each other’s capabilities and resources to fuel industry innovation. The goal: To use Singapore as a test-bed [...]
FUTURE OF MEDIA
Inspiring Innovation
Fueling the Future of Media
We are launching the “Future of Media” Initiative to catalyse growth in the interactive digital media (IDM) sector. In 2009, we are including Future Mobile, Future Games, Future TV, Future Worlds and Future Books.
The vision of Future of Media is to pull together companies and combine collectively their [...]
Making money off the web
Four IDMPO funded companies were recently featured in Digital Life for their unique and viable business models, and who have been gaining traction (in terms of profit and user outreach) through social networking platforms such as Facebook, Friendster, Second Life and so on. The four companies profiled were iHipo (international internships), [...]
2008 has been a good year for IDM. 2 years into the programme, an IDM eco-system is taking shape, evidenced by the burgeoning number of world-class research players that are establishing a presence in Singapore, a budding IDM industry, and growing numbers of young startups, incubators and global contributors.
To date, 500 RSEs (researchers, scientists [...]