The Straits Times: Growth Road Map for Infocomm Media Sector Set to Create 16k Jobs, Build AI Capabilities

A new road map plotting the growth of the infocomm media (ICM) industry is expected to create 16,000 jobs by 2020. Most of these are expected to be professional, managerial, executive and technician roles in four frontier areas: cybersecurity, Internet of Things, immersive media, and artificial intelligence (AI) and data science.

The programme is a first for AI under the IMDA’s tech skills development and job placement initiative called TechSkills Accelerator (Tesa). Two new AI companies — United States-based DataRobot and locally based Taiger — have also been approved under the Accreditation@IMDA programme, which will be renamed Accrediation@SG Digital, to reflect its expanded national agenda.

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