Click HERE to the watch the ND Rally Speech by PM Lee.
In the 4th segment on New Media, one new word was introduced by PM - NetRoot.
He used several examples to illustrate how the internet has changed the way the world "operates"
A umber of examples on how politicians tap on the Internet to engage people:
(i) The current US Presidential election campaigns - How Obama engage the netcitizens via the facebook, website, etc... including rally for donations for the campaigns
(ii) Korean president - to battle the bad cow disease madness
(iii) Our closer neighbourhood - Malaysia in the recent political landscape
PM also recapped he spoken about technology a couple of years ago... people are engaged in using technology (more handphones than population size)... It has changed the way our government works. Such includes the classical example by iDA's rap in Youtube.
With the emergence of cyber-savvy netcitizens, he also pointed out the need to differentiate truthful information from others before circulating... netiquettes and also one's ability to vertify and validate counts!
Media is powerful to influence one's thoughts and what's best is not to just ban... but to have it positioned, anchored in the right perspective - to preserve the integrity of information.
All in all, as PM said, it's really a multimedia National Day Rally presentation... not only the presentation has several multimedia elements - animated charts, video clips and even a live demo by PM on capturing a live video into the PM Office website.
1 cyber-year is equivalent to 5 years in real life???? Wah! Something new I learnt through this rally!
PM's 2008 speech; archives
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