[1], The committee held the first of an estimated 30 dialogue sessions with Singaporeans on 13 October 2012, involving "about 60 people from all walks of life, including taxi drivers, professionals, full-time national servicemen, university undergraduates and retirees." Heng Swee Keat, then Minister for Education of Singapore, was appointed to lead the committee that will participate in the conversations with Singaporeans to create “a home with hope and heart”. [3] Apart from 7 political office holders, the committee also included a taxi driver, a polytechnic student, an artist and a television host. We surveyed over 4,000 respondents in the Our Singapore Conversation (OSC) Survey to supplement what we were already hearing from Singaporeans at dialogues and online.


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By M Palaniyapan Our Singapore Conversation (OSC) wasn’t the government's first attempt to engage the ground and get feedback. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. We have been experiencing some problems with subscriber log-ins and apologise for the inconvenience caused. If you’re going to keep pe… ", "On-going National Conversation must engage silent majority: Political watchers", "Civil servants can take part in dialogues with gag order lifted", Our Singapore Conversation official website, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Singapore_Conversation&oldid=955485544, Organisations of the Singapore Government, Articles with dead external links from April 2020, Articles with permanently dead external links, Pages which use infobox templates with ignored data cells, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The full list of 26 members was announced on 08 Sep 2012, This page was last edited on 8 May 2020, at 02:38. This full list of 26 members of the committee was only announced later. These weren’t hospitals for sick people, these were all the mild cases that Australia, Europe and US sends home. There was a need to communicate to the public why the Government had to review policies, and how this would affect them. Our Singapore Conversation is a national conversation initiative first announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during his 2012 National Day Message. There was no question the PAP would be in government.". On 11 October 2012, Singapore media reported that the country's 76,000 civil servants would be allowed to contribute to the Our Singapore Conversation with the lifting of a long-standing gag order preventing public servants from speaking publicly on government policies, although they are still not allowed to talk "about their current work or policies they worked on. Political observer and former Nominated MP (NMP) Zulkifli Baharudin notes: "In the early years, elections were almost a referendum on the popularity of the People's Action Party. Local political observers have stated that for the National Conversation to be successful, it will be important to reach out to the silent majority. Heng Swee Keat, then Minister for Education of Singapore, was appointed to lead the committee that will participate in the conversations with Singaporeans to create “a home with hope and heart”. Learn more about ST PREMIUM.

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[2], In PM Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Message, he promised that the committee leading the national conversation would be representative of the different segments of Singapore's society.

Until we resolve the issues, subscribers need not log in to access ST Digital articles. You’re not supposed to mix with your family, you’re supposed to have your own toilet, you’re not supposed to have visitors. Mobile: (+65) 98333515 OR (+65) 93834228. A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on July 14, 2019, with the headline 'From Feedback Unit to Our S'pore Conversation'. China also didn’t do that. Get unlimited access to The Straits Times and more at S$ 0.99/month. All rights reserved. The FB Page has since “garnered close to a hundred responses” as of early Sep 2012.[5]. Looking at what we do differently today, I think the biggest one is Singapore didn’t let positive patients back into the community. 198402868E. In 1985, Singapore experienced its first post-independence economic recession. [4], Various offline and online platforms have been set up to facilitate the conversation process, including a website and a Facebook page. A group of film and media students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, with the help of local film producer N Mohamed Yahssir, put together a video reflecting the voices of the people who took part in the dialogues for “Our Singapore Conversation”. We surveyed over 4,000 respondents in the Our Singapore Conversation (OSC) Survey to supplement what we were already hearing from Singaporeans at dialogues and online. The Feedback Unit was set up in 1985 for the same purpose. HOW TO MOVE FROM FUNCTIONING TO flourishing the PERMA way. You can read this subscriber-only article in full, All done! Share gift link below with your friends and family. Home quarantine is not easy.