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 [...]
Are you an IDM company, or an entrepreneur with an IDM idea?
Would you like to raise funds to start or grow your IDM company?
From Idea to Investment For the IDM industry, a 5-Day Intensive Workshop presented by Expara Pte. Ltd. & The Media Development Authority of Singapore
3 Day From-Idea-to-Investment Investor Presentation Overview Module
10th, 11th and [...]
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 [...]
Out of 126 nominations submitted by 10 countries, Singapore emerged as the biggest winner with 3 submissions winning 3 out of 16 categories. 2 winners, PGK Media and Personal e-Motion are IDMPO funded companies. Singapore also received 6 merit awards for the other categories.
All winners were being announced during the Gala Dinners and Award Ceremony [...]
Singapore, 31 October 2008 – Singapore’s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry receives a boost with the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) – and its vast network of industry members – partnering the multi-agency IDM Research and Development Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority on a mentorship programme to cultivate and develop [...]
In this month’s issue,
$12m Awarded to Co-Space™ Projects
A Closer Look at the Co-Space™ Projects
IDMPO Entrepreneurs Nominated for BusinessWeek’s Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
IDMPO Companies’ Found Success through Facebook
15 projects ranging from transport to heritage planning spur innovation and breakthrough in Singapore’s IDM sector
Singapore, 17 October 2008 – Fifteen new projects on the concept of Co-Space™ have been awarded funding by the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Research and Development (R&D) Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority.
Collectively, these projects [...]
In this month’s issue,
Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society
The Move to Fusionopolis
$18m boost for IDM projects
International Experts Impressed with IDM Efforts
KooBits and PGK Media Wins the InfoComm Singapore Awards 2008
Developments of GAMBIT
We have defined the area of Co-Space as technologies, applications or service that allow for the simultaneous interaction between both the digital and physical environments. We believe that the area of Co-Space provides much potential for Singapore; and it is premised on the belief that the content contextualisation in a natural, unobtrusive, but pervasive semantic [...]
Ever had trouble hunting down a kernel of information on a massive website, like the ones that belong to banks and governments? Well, some day soon a virtual helper may appear on the screen and point you in the right direction – without you even having to ask.
The drive to incorporate artificial intelligence like this [...]