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Singapore leaps towards a Big Society

Forward Singapore aims to mobilise a whole-of-nation effort to solve complex challenges in the country’s next bound.

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ST PHOTO: Chong Jun Liang

DPM Lawrence Wong speaks before the launch of  the Forward Singapore Festival  on October 27, 2023.

Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong speaking before the launch of the Forward Singapore Festival on Oct 27.

ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG

Gillian Koh

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One expects a 16-month long public engagement exercise led by the fourth generation of political leaders in the People’s Action Party Government to suggest transformational reforms.

The 4G leaders plan to do just that:

shepherd Singapore successfully into its sixth decade as a nation

by portioning the responsibility, resources, and most critically, the power to find solutions and implement them, to society. They are putting an expanded sense of “us” at the heart of it. They are prepared for what it means.

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