SCS Gala Dinner – IT Leaders Awards 2011


SCS is proud to have conferred the IT Leader Awards on four distinguished individuals during the Gala Dinner on 4 March 2011. The top IT achievers are Ms Tan Yen Yen (IT Leader of the Year), Mr Lee Kwok Cheong (Hall of Fame), Mr Douglas Gan (Young Professional of the Year) and Mr Vishnu Prem (IT Youth).



Click here to read the profile of these winners.



CITREP Expanded



The Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP) was established by IDA in 1996 with the objective to accelerate the development of emerging, critical and specialised infocomm skills to meet Singapore’s infocomm manpower needs. The CITREP Expanded programme is one of many initiatives under MDEV 2.0. From 1 April 2011, the focus will be expanded to cover new and emerging areas, such as Business Analytics, Cloud Computing, Green Infocomm. Training courses and certifications in the following skill areas imparting knowledge and skills at specialist level and

above will be evaluated and endorsed under CITREP Expanded:



Critical Infocomm Skills



Data Integration and Information Management

Infrastructure and Network Management

ICT in Media and Entertainment

IT Services and Business Management

Software Development

Emerging Infocomm Skills



Business Analytics

Cloud Computing

Green Infocomm

Infocomm Security

Mobile Application Development

Infrastructure/Network/Software Design Architecture







The new funding quantum will be capped at either 50% or 70% depending on the skill category and whether the course meets the stipulated endorsement criteria. Full details are available from 1 April 2011 on the programme website, (www.ida.gov.sg/citrep).



NICF Courses offered by the Continuing Education & Training (CET) Centres



ISS, STMI, SP and NP, are the 4 CET Centres jointly appointed and supported by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) & Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) to deliver NICF programmes. The course listing from the 4 CET Centres are listed below :





NICF Courses Offered by Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore

Login to www.iss.nus.edu.sg for course details. For a snapshot of the courses provided, see the list below,

Ø NICF – Social Media Marketing

Ø NICF – Enterprise Business Analysis

Ø NICF – Requirements Engineering

Ø NICF – Object Oriented Design Patterns

Ø NICF – Architecting Software Solutions

Ø NICF – Project Management for Information Systems

Ø NICF – ITIL® Intermediate Certificate: Operational Support & Analysis (OSA)

Ø NICF – PRINCE2® Foundation & Practitioner Certificate

Ø NICF – Business Process Reengineering

Ø NICF – AISP Qualified Information Security Professional Course

Ø NICF – ITIL® V3 Foundation for IT Service Management course

Ø NICF – Strategic IT Planning

Ø NICF – Service-Oriented Architecture Essentials

Ø NICF – P3O Foundation and Practitioner Certification

Ø NICF – Technopreneurship

Ø NICF – Building Enterprise Applications using Java EE

Ø NICF – Object Oriented Analysis & Design

Ø NICF – Essential Leadership Skills for Project Managers

Ø NICF – Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Course

Ø NICF – AIIM Business Process Management Master (BPMC)

Ø NICF – IT Outsourcing Management for Practitioners





NICF Courses Offered by The Continuing Education & Training Academy, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Login to http://www.np.edu.sg/cet for course details. For a snapshot of the courses provided, see the list below,

Ø NICF – Certified Software Tester

Ø NICF – Advanced Web Programming (90 hours)

Ø NICF – Certified Test Analyst

Ø NICF – Programming Algorithms (45 hours)

Ø NICF – NICF Design & Build RFID Applications

Ø NICF – Web Production

Ø NICF – Object-Oriented Design using UML





NICF Courses Offered by Professional & Adult Continuing Education Academy, Singapore Polytechnic

Login to www.cet.sp.sg for course details. For a snapshot of the courses provided, see the list below,

Ø NICF - Certificate of Performance in Network Essentials

Ø NICF - Certificate of Performance in Computer Networking

Ø NICF - Certificate of Performance in Web Applications Development

Ø NICF - Certificate of Performance in Business Process Re-engineering







NICF Courses Offered by Strategic Technology Management Institute, National University of Singapore

Login to http://www.stmi.nus.edu.sg for course details. For a snapshot of the courses provided, see the list below,



Ø NICF – Business Analysis Essentials : Requirement and Solutions Analysis

Ø NICF – IT Contract and Vendor Management

Ø NICF – Structured Thinking and Communication for IT Professionals

Ø NICF – Consulting Skills and Techniques

Ø NICF – Customer Data Analytics