Seanad debates

Thursday, 17 October 2002

Digital Hub Development Agency Bill, 2002: Second Stage.

 

If I were in charge of this national aim – and part of the trouble is that nobody seems to be in charge of it – the first thing I would do is buy a season ticket to Singapore. That country set itself the aim of becoming the digital hub of Asia and it is interesting to see what it has done. Every citizen was given an e-mail address. That country faces many of the same challenges that we do, but the difference is that it is implementing an aggressive strategy to address them. On broadband, it has set itself the target of making it available to all citizens and to all businesses in the country within the next two years – and they are already a long way down the road to achieving this.

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