Singapore NII: building the electronic universe

The National Information Infrastructure (NII) is an infrastructure consisting of efficient transport, information processing and service facilities that combine both computer and communication technologies. The needs of business and the public in general drive the definition of the infrastructure. Its goal is to increase the well-being of people as a whole. To deliver the promise of a more effective way to do business, the NII must strive to bring as many of these services or their equivalent to the end-users. Further, these services must be easily accessible and easy to use in addition to being affordable. The NII attempts to (re)engineer the real-world capabilities over the physical telecommunication network. In addition, the NII provides for a rich set of common computing services and supports the reuse of large components, over and above providing a physical telecommunication network.<>