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

Forging a strong sense of civic-mindedness, community and national identity among Singaporeans by enriching our arts and cultural resources, ensuring quality media content, and reinforcing national resilience messages; and

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

Enhancing the capabilities of 1,000 local media professionals and students;

Supporting the development of 20 digital media projects such as games and animations, applications and services for digital TV, digital audio, interactive TV and digital cinema;

Helping 100 local media enterprises expand overseas through developing new markets for Made-in-Singapore media content, co-productions with overseas partners and participation in international media trade missions; and

Growing the 2 anchor media events in Singapore - Asia Media Festival and Broadcast Asia.

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Organising a major International Design Festival in Singapore;

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Showcasing the works of Singapore designers at international platforms, such as the inaugural Singapore Season in London;

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Initiating 4 major projects between Singapore and international designers to develop our design capabilities;

Introducing design education scholarships; and

Attracting international design organizations to hub in Singapore for project collaboration and job creation.

Seed-funding creative projects from the people, private and public sectors; and

Providing facilitation, co-branding and marketing assistance to these projects to maximize the benefits to the community.

Enhancing Singapore’s broadband infrastructure;

Supporting 50 strategic IT projects to encourage innovation and adoption, mainly in emerging technologies such as RFID, wireless, web services and digital media;

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

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

Showcasing the capability of Infocomm enterprises and demonstrate benefits of at least 3 flagship Infocomm adoption projects.

Developing the Arts School to provide integrated arts and academic secondary education for artistically inclined students;

Organising major arts events such as the Singapore Arts Festival, the Singapore Writers’ Festival, the Singapore Music Festival, the Singapore (Visual) Art Festival, the Noise Singapore Festival, and the River Arts Mart – a weekend arts and crafts market;

Promoting Singapore artists and artworks at international arts platforms, such as the inaugural Singapore Season in London, and the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale;

Providing grants to over 557 local artists and arts groups (include 19 major arts groups), and providing subsidized arts housing to deserving groups to develop their works under the Arts Housing Scheme;

Organising and supporting 135 arts outreach programmes targeted at over 110,000 people; and

Partnering arts groups to produce 620 Arts Education Programmes to reach out to 351 schools and 320,000 students, including introducing new arts education initiatives for pre-schools.

Redeveloping the Singapore History Museum, converting the Asian Civilisations Museum at Armenian Street into a Peranakan Museum, and restoring the former Ford Factory Building; and

Organising 44 museum exhibitions and 750 heritage outreach programmes, including an exhibition on "40 Years of Things We Love" to celebrate our nation's 40th year of independence, the Singapore HeritageFest, the Singapore River Heritage Trail and an exhibition on artifacts from the Vatican Museums.

the new National Library Building which will have a world-class reference and resource centre for Asian materials and incorporate a New Drama Centre;

A network of 4 regional libraries, 20 community libraries and 18 community children's libraries, which serve 35 million library visitors and 2 million library members; and

Rich on-line information sources and content at NLB's elibraryHub portal which serves 13.6 million on-line users.