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  • ISO 27001 Certification Grant Scheme
    ISO 27001 Certification Grant Scheme, an initiative under the Infocomm Security Masterplan (MP2), aims to raise the awareness of ISO 27001 and encourage the adoption of ISO 27001 among organisations.

    ISO 27001 is an internationally well-recognised, auditable, information security management standard. It defines a top-down, business driven, and risk-based framework for organisations to develop their information security management systems (ISMS). The standard is adopted by many public- and private-sector organisations worldwide as guidelines for their information security management practices.

  • Green Data Centre Standard
    To reduce the energy consumption and operating costs of data centres and enhance their competitiveness, IDA is partnering other government agencies and industry to develop a Singapore Standard for Green Data Centres under the IT Standards Committee (www.itsc.org.sg). This Standard which is under development will provide organisations with a framework as well as a logical and consistent methodology to achieve continuous improvement in their DC facilities. It also defines a set of performance metrics for DCs to measure their energy efficiency, and a comprehensive set of recommended industry best practices they can adopt to improve their energy efficiency.

  • Asia IC Card Forum (AICF)
    The Asia IC Card Forum (AICF) is an organisation founded by Korea, China, Japan and Singapore with the aim of promoting IC-based common platforms across member countries, using ISO standardisation for IC technologies and applications.

  • Collaborative Engineering Programme (CEP)
    IDA spearheaded a collaboration between industry and academia to work on a 4-year Collaborative Engineering Programme (CEP) in August 2004. CEP aims to bring about distributed and integrated collaborative engineering applications to manage the value chain through engineering collaboration, in response to outsourcing trends and the challenge of fragmented value chains.

  • Consumer Information on Residential Broadband Services in Singapore
    Culled from information gathered by the IDA, this monthly update provides useful insights and tips to consumers on how they can get more out of their broadband connections.

  • digitalCommunity@SG
    digitalCommunity@SG is a project by IDA which leverages Web 2.0 and related technologies to enable innovative services through community participation. It is a pilot effort to enable the efficient fusing of information from various sources through a central data registry and standards-based interface mechanisms.

  • Framework for Web Services Implementation (FWSI)
    The Framework for Web Services Implementation (FWSI) Technical Committee was set up to facilitate the implementation of robust Web Services by defining a practical and extensible methodology consisting of implementation processes and common functional elements that practitioners can adopt to create high quality Web Services systems without re-inventing them for each implementation.

  • Mobile 2-D Barcode
    With the growth of broadband and technologies such as digital imaging, these traditional channels have evolved into interactive media with ability to engage consumers in two-way communication delivering immediate gratification. Some example of such interactive communication and product selling involves the use of camera phones and 2D symbologies, also known as 2D bar codes.

  • Specification for Contactless e-Purse Application (CEPAS)
    CEPAS, Specification for Contactless e-Purse Application is a significant milestone for Singapore's micro-payment landscape. A key pillar of the national ePayment infrastructure, outlined in IDA's 10 year infocomm masterplan, Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015), CEPAS is a result of a collaboration spearheaded by IDA working closely with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the industry to develop a cashless nation-wide e-payment platform.