Developing and promoting our creative industries (arts and culture, design, media) and information communications (infocomm) technology sector to create new economic value and jobs.

Forging a strong sense of community, national identity, rootedness and inclusion among Singaporeans by enriching our arts and cultural resources, ensuring quality media content, and empowering individuals through infocomm literacy and access for all; and

Fostering better understanding between the Government, Singaporeans, and international stakeholders through effective public communications.

Enhancing skill sets and competencies of 1,000 local media professionals in key areas such as scriptwriting, directing, producing, digital media design, digital broadcast technology, publishing, media financing and intellectual property management;

Supporting 20 Made-by-Singapore media productions that are of high quality and exportable to the international market;

Supporting 20 digital media projects for digital TV, digital audio, interactive TV and digital cinema; and

Providing assistance to 50 local media enterprises for developing new overseas markets for their content & services, participation in international media tradeshows/markets, and co-production with overseas partners.

Industry development programmes to raise the design capabilities/standards;

Creating and promoting more distinctive "Designed in Singapore" products/services for the global market; and

Attracting international design activities to Singapore.

Providing assistance to 300 local Infocomm companies in bringing their products to market under the Infocomm Local Enterprises Programme;

Supporting 30 strategic projects to encourage innovation, mainly in emerging technologies such as wireless, web services, and digital media;

Training 2,600 Infocomm professionals in critical and emerging technologies to meet the needs of the industry; and

Showcasing abilities of Infocomm enterprises and demonstrate benefits in at least 3 flagship Infocomm adoption projects.

Organising major arts events such as the Singapore Arts Festival, a new international visual arts festival with an Asian focus and a Noise Festival which will exhibit creative works on the Internet, television, radio and print;

Grooming artistic talents by providing grants to 430 local artists and arts groups (include 19 major arts groups), showcasing Singapore artists at international arts events/venues and providing subsidised arts housing for deserving groups to develop their works under the Arts Housing Scheme;

Partnering arts groups to produce 740 Arts Education Programmes to reach out to 370 schools and 300,000 students;

Organising 35 museum exhibitions, 650 outreach/public programmes, as well as providing innovative content and services on our cultural and heritage resources on the Internet; and

Redeveloping the Singapore History Museum and Ford Factory Building, and extension of the Asian Civilizations Museum at Armenian Street, to present high quality and more enriching heritage exhibitions to the public.

A network of 3 regional libraries, 20 community libraries and 20 community children's libraries located in shopping malls and housing estates;

Rich on-line information sources and content at NLB's elibrary_hub portal; and

New and upgraded libraries such as the National Library @ SINGAPORE and the Jurong Regional Library.