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Abstract of an article on Mr George Yeo

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Radio Singapore international(rsi) blogwatch website: http://www.rsi.sg/english/blogwatch/view/20061020152211/1/.html

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr George Yeo
October 20, 2006
Not to long ago, a veritable buzz was generated among the online community in Singapore. Curious, excited and skeptical, people wondered if it could be true, that such a high-profile member of the government had actually taken to… blogging. It’s of course well known by now that the person who generated this buzz is Mr George Yeo, Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, whose foray into the blogosphere has broken virtual ground. And on this very special edition of Blogwatch, Mr Yeo was kind enough to take some time off his schedule to explain to Radio Singapore International what exactly inspired him to blog and the experiences he’s had since taking it up. Welcome to the programme, I’m Joel Chua. While Mr George Yeo doesn’t maintain his own blog, he contributes posts regularly to the blogs of two of his acquaintances. But of course what separates a minister’s blog posts from the rest of ours is the privileged insight it offers on what goes on behind the scenes and personal reflections on high-powered meetings and events.

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My reflection

Gobalisation in technology is the growth of technology to a world wide scale. One such advancement in technology is computers. Most of the people in the world have a computer in their home. The usage of computers is not determined by race, age, gender or education. Anyone can use computers for entertainment, official or learning purposes. As seen from graph 1, the usage of computers is increasing steeply. Also people welcome the latest versions of softwares in computers or any better models of computers.

This claim can be proved by witnessing the computer models throughout the period from the time when it was first invented. When computers were first invented they had a length of 20metres and a width of 4 metres. Then computers measuring approximately 30cm X 25cm were made which gathered an overwhelming popularity. This triggered switch from big and bulky computers to small and portable PCs.Following this, smaller, lighter and more efficient computers called laptops were invented. If you look at Singapore itself, students as young as 15 years old in Crescent girls’ secondary school and Temasek Academy in Temasek junior college are using tablet PCs for their intensive research and projects. Moreover, the birth of palmtops which are the smallest versions of PCs so far has also triggered a switch in the PC usage.

Also the advancements in computer products and softwares also depict the scenario of globalization. For example, the release of Windows Vista saw that within a week, millions of people switched from Windows 2000 or Windows XP to Windows Vista. This reiterates that people want to be going in the pace the whole world is moving and not left behind.

An attractive feature in computers is the internet which facilitates information sharing throughout the world. The usage of internet has more than tripled from the period of 1995-2005. This can be seen from graph 2. Tabulation 1 shows the switch of the percentage of people using internet explorer (IE) switching from IE 6 to IE7 for a period of 1 year.

An activity possible with the aid of internet is blogging. The times when blogging, was considered as an aspect of the entertainment of youths were now gone. Today, people, of all age blog. The latest highlight in blogging was that our own ministers and MPs (members of parliament blog). This can be seen from the article. Mr George Yeo started this chain. Websites such as http://www.p65.sg/ or blogsites are increasingly being created by MPs to express their views and Now, even teachers are asking students to make blogsites to showcase their creation. An example is this project itself and Language Arts assignments students in Temasek Academy were given to do.

Computers and internet which is a medium for information sharing can therefore be taken as an example for showcasing globalization.

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