Internet of knowledge (IOK): Capability Development Programmes for Business Analytics (BA)

To enable Singapore as a regional analytics hub, IDA has collaborated with leading players in the ecosystem as well as local Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) to provide academic programmes, to facilitate industry attachment programmes, and to develop and enhance BA capabilities for local students and professionals.

National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF)

The National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF) is a national infocomm roadmap that helps infocomm professionals and employers to determine the types of skills and competencies required for various infocomm jobs and develop training strategies to acquire these skills.

Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP)

The Critical Infocomm Technology Resource (CITREP) programme aims to encourage upgrading in critical, emerging and hybrid infocomm skills, such as such as product development, cloud computing and software architecture. This ensures that professionals have the right skills and capabilities to meet Singapore’s infocomm manpower needs.

Computer Science Reloaded Programme

The Computer Science (CS) Reloaded Programme aims to deliver enrichment courses to pre-tertiary students to deepen their infocomm skills by supporting course fees for students to take up computer science courses anchored in computational thinking.

IDA Junior College Computing Award (JCA)

The IDA JC Computing Award is presented to students who demonstrate strong attitude and passion in computing to give them a head start in the thriving infocomm industry. The JC Computing Award comes with attractive benefits and provides awardees the opportunities to expose themselves to various industry partners, infocomm events and workshops.

Integrated Infocomm Scholarship (IIS)

The Integrated Infocomm Scholarship (IIS) is open to outstanding 'O' level students to take them through infocomm studies at both the polytechnic and university levels.

IT Exposed

The IT Exposed programme aims to generate curiosity, interest and passion for Infocomm amongst youth. The programme seeks to equip Infocomm Club students with computing concepts and skills through training workshops aimed at deepening the programming skills of primary and secondary students.

National Infocomm Competition (NIC)

The National Infocomm Competition (NIC) is a series of infocomm-themed competitions to expose students to areas such as programming, mobile application development, networking, games design and creation. The NIC aims to inculcate interest and raise exposure about infocomm among students and create a common branding to boost the prestige of infocomm competitions in Singapore. The NIC is divided into three categories – Primary, Secondary/JC and ITE/Polytechnic/University.

BCA-IDA Green Mark for Data Centres Scheme

To provide recognition to data centre operators that have successfully deployed Green Data Centre best practices and demonstrated superior energy and environmental performance, BCA and IDA have developed the Green Mark scheme for Data Centres. The scheme comprises of a rating system which enables DCs to benchmark their degree of greenness with respect to their peers. Rating DCs in categories such as "Platinum", "Gold ^PLUS " and "Gold" provides the impetus for DC operators to track, manage and improve their energy efficiency performance to reduce operating cost and also improve the corporate branding.

Cloud

Cloud is the next important paradigm in computing that will present many new opportunities for the infocomm industry and other businesses in Singapore . IDA's IDA’s cloud vision is to sharpen the overall economic competitiveness of Singapore through the adoption of cloud computing and to enhance the vibrancy and growth fo the Singapore infocomm sector through the development of a cloud ecosystem.