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SiTF and SMU Announce Winners of "Speak Out on ICT” Oratory Contest"

The winners of the 'Speak out on ICT' oratory contest, the public-speaking competition, are Lim Perk Lun from National Junior College and Kelvin Quee from Nanyang Technological University in the Junior and senior category respectively. The competition was organized by the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) and Singapore Management University (SMU) with aims to promote interest in pursuing an infocomm technology (ICT) career among junior college and tertiary students in Singapore.

Five contestants in the Junior category and 15 from the Senior category were invited to present their entries based on the theme "ICT at Work: Collaboration and Peer-to-Peer Technologies" before a panel of judges on May 27.

Contestants were judged on the subject matter of their presentation, relevance to the conference theme, as well as delivery.

"While many of the presentations were well researched, informative and delivered confidently, it is noteworthy that the winning entries advocated a change in the way that enterprises use collaboration tools," commented William Claxton, Chairman of iX Conference Organising Committee, SiTF. "Lim Perk Lun advocated the need for a single standard for IM communications. Kelvin Quee advocated a change from competitive to cooperative behaviour in the enterprise."

The winning entry of National Junior College’s Lim Perk Lun was entitled “P2P Software: One is enough”. It examined the benefits of peer-to-peer technologies to both consumers and businesses alongside their implications and limitations.

On the other hand, Kelvin Quee from NTU debunked the common misconception about collaboration tools, highlighted the shortcomings of such technologies, and suggested a hybrid approach to solving the problem.


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