SINGAPORE MEMORY PROJECT

This week, after publishing Audrey's Gardens By The Bay post, we were asked on behalf of the National Library Board (NLB), if we would like to pledge our blog, View From 84, to the Singapore Memory Project as part of efforts to collect memories that are already manifested in existing online channels. 

The Singapore Memory Project (SMP) is a national initiative started in 2011 to collect, preserve and provide access to stories, moments and memories related to Singapore, so as to tell the Singapore story. Spearheaded by the National Library Board, the Singapore Memory Project aims to build a national collection of content in diverse formats (including print, audio and video), to preserve them in digital form, and make them available for discovery and research. These recollections will come from Singaporeans, organisations (such as us!) and groups. They aim to collect 5 million personal memories as well as a substantial number of published material by 2015.

By pledging our blog, we are affirming that every memory matters. Whether our posts are an account of your daily life, or an expression of your thoughts, the SMP hopes to find a home for our memories so that it can help build towards an understanding of Singapore. All these will culminate in the collection of 5 million stories, just in time for Singapore's 50th birthday in 2015. 

We will shortly receive a badge that we will be able to display on our blog homepage in recognition of our contributions.
 
You may find out more about this initiative at http://www.iremember.sg/