SiTF Mentorship Programme (SMP) is a unique industry mentorship programme that will enable individuals or start-ups to embark on research and development as well as Proof of Concept (POC) for their innovative ideas in the Digital Media arena. The SiTF Mentorship Programme (SMP) is primarily an industry effort that will require collaborations with various industry partners/groups, IHLs and government to make possible.

The objective of the SiTF Mentorship Programme (SMP) is to facilitate a vibrant and conducive environment to ‘nurture’ Interactive Digital Media ideas / applications. This programme rides on top of MDA's iJam micro funding scheme and funds up to $50k per innovative idea in the area of digital media. The programme allows individuals or the industry to bring ideas, leverage on an industry led platform to take these ideas from conceptualisation, to proof of concepts, and ultimately progress towards possible commercialisation.

By building the industry-led platform, the programme will seek to bring many benefits, including access to support funding, from the government and possibly the industry and more importantly, the access to industry mentors from the pool of industry partners in the DMC.

Industry expertise & mentorship
Compared to the typical i.JAM incubator (for ideas), SMP is not just an ‘assignment’ of a mentor to the each idea / project. As an industry body, the DMC of SiTF is able to reach out to all the key leading industry leaders in the various components of the value chain including content creators, technology providers, distributors, value-added service providers etc. This access to the industry expertise will make the SMP a very attractive programme to applicants.

IP / Technology access & development
The SMP Office could possibly provide IP / Technology access for the incubatees in terms of software and hardware infrastructure for the development of their ideas.

Commercialisation opportunities
With the wide spectrum of members, SMP can also come in to help enable and commercialise successful ideas during the development phase.

For Press Release (Oct 31st, 2008): http://www.idm.sg/2008/10/idm-rd-programme-office-partners-sitf-on-mentorship-programme-for-digital-media-ideas/
For more information on the iJam application guidelines: http://www.idm.sg/support/ijam/

Microfunding Proposal Template: Microfunding Proposal Template.doc

For further enquiry, please contact:
Claudine Ang
Singapore infocomm Technology Federation
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Tel: 6325 9710
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