Republic of Singapore
Minister Lee Boon Yang
Singapore joined the United Nations on September 21, 1965. Lee Boon Yang has served as Singapore’s minister for information, communications, and the arts since May 2003. The following is excerpted from his November 17, 2005, speech to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia.The advance and ubiquity of information and communication technologies [ICT] has had a profound impact on the economic and social progress of all countries. The benefits from deploying ICT are apparent in nearly every field of human endeavor. So are the divides faced by those who are unable to adopt and utilize…
