We are ordinary citizens of Singapore and some of us are currently living in Singapore.

We started as a group that volunteers our time to get 100,000 signatures for a petition, to get Tan Kin Lian to stand for public office in Singapore.

We decided to set up this website because some of us feel that it is important for Singaporeans to have a sense of civic activism. If we want Singapore to sustain as a nation, then the country needs to be built up by everybody, and not by just a small group of people who decide for everyone else.

Our beliefs are captured in SG Charter. It is currently work-in-progress.

Tan Kin Lian is an Advisor to this website. We hope to invite others. If you have a suggestion, tell us.

Each of us has her own reason to do what we are doing.

For volunteering to take part to help in the petition, one of us talked about the aim of the petition here. Another volunteer explains how we organise the petition here.

We are known in the following internet forums as:

- sgforums: Volunteers for TanKinLian
- sammyboy.com: Volunteers for TanKinLian
- talkingcock.com: Volunteers_for_TanKinLian
- Singapore Kopitiam: TKLVolunteer
- 3in1 Kopitiam: TKLVolunteer

We are doing this as a community project sponsored by

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We help ourselves. Don’t expect others to help

Tom Wright painted a bleak picture of Singapore’s property sector going forward at The Wall Street Journal. His article ended with the following:
“I’m yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel [for Singapore],” says Mr. Tan, the high-end broker.
We would expect people to continue to dig the dirt and tell it to [...]



Our skin isn’t as thick as it should be

The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) organised a seminar on March 4 to discuss Singapore’s political blogosphere.  Tan Tarn How, Senior Research Fellow and Research Assistant Tan Simin presented their paper on trends observed in the blogosphere.  As reported in the TOC, the researchers identified the following limitations:

The online-offline firewall, while somewhat alleviated by offline [...]



Singapore and Lee Kuan Yew – The answer to the African problem?

Recently, I followed a thread “Democracy and Economic Growth” which started in PoliticsForum.org.   Apparently, members there often question the role of democracy in a developing nation. “During the wave of democratization in Africa during the 90s, many people had renewed hope for the continent, immediately equating newly established democracies to economic growth. Are these democracies [...]



Tell Singapore government: Ask them a question or give a suggestion

We informed people about the “Tell Singapore Government” subsite and have received some interesting reaction at some forums.
See: 3in1 Kopitiam, Sam’s Alfresco Coffee, Singapore Kopitiam, SgForums
Our responses to some of the comments are listed below. If we are not answering some other specific questions, that is because we do not know how.
 
1. If you want [...]

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