With the large number of participants, meetings, and other related events, Singapore
International Convention and Exhibition Centre (Suntec) was chosen as the appropriate
venue for S2006. Suntec is a renowned, international venue for meetings, conventions
and exhibitions. Within the venue, more than 1000 temporary offices had to be set up
for the delegates’ use during the event. Since Suntec is rented out continuously for
different activities, the IT infrastructure for the temporary offices had to be swiftly set
up and torn down after the event. Thus, IS had to developed and deployed for ensuring
connectivity, situation awareness, security protection during the event period, and
coordination between public and private sector organizations and event participants.
This was the daunting task facing the Chairman and the Communications Infrastructure
sub‐committee (referred to as the CI from now on) of the S2006 Organizing Committee.