Some time back, the Prime Minister of Singapore announced a few sweeping changes to the election system to encourage more dissenting voices within the Parliament in Singapore. He proposed the following changes namely:
(1) Permanency and Number of Nominated Members of Parliament in the Singapore Political System: Nominated Members of Parliament will feature as a permanent fixture in the parliament. The number of NMPs are fixed at 9. In addition, the Constitution and the Elections Act will be changed to allow a maximum of 9 Non-Constituency Members of Parliament …
In the past two months, I have been invited to a couple of events under the sponsorship with Nokia Singapore via Text100 Singapore. In the process, it opened up new business opportunities like arranging entrepreneurs from my existing portfolio to see what can be developed for Ovi Store, funding new applications relating to the Ovi Store and also consumer interactions with the people from Nokia. Recently, I received a gift from Nokia during a meeting with their corporate communications team three weeks back and it’s the Nokia N97 with full disclosure. Here are some of the initial impressions and some things I discover about the Nokia N97 while learning about applications on different mobile phone vendors and operating systems.