E-mail for newborns? Anyone wants to make money?

E-mail soon for Perak newborns and New Straits Times - Email address for newborns!

What's the purpose? Someone close to the ruling elites has come up with a plan to make some money?

There's free e-mails everywhere!

Internet penetration is so low in Malaysia, and all they could muster is this money-making plans!

Improve ISPs services and lower the cost first!

The Star Online > Nation

Wednesday June 1, 2005

E-mail soon for Perak newborns

IPOH: Soon, newborns in Perak will not only be given birth certificates, but also e-mail addresses.

In what could probably be the first such plan in the country, the state will embark on an E-mail 4 All project under its information communications technology (ICT) blueprint.

Chairman of the state Education, Human Resource and ICT committee Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said the plan would provide lifelong e-mail addresses to all newborns.

“We are working with the National Registration Department to provide these e-mail addresses for all newborns,” he told reporters here yesterday.

“The move will push parents into the ICT age because they will have to learn how to use the e-mail for their newborns,” he added.

“We may not be able to register the e-mail in the birth certificate as it involves regulations.

“But we will give it in other forms so that it can be used at any time, especially when dealing with government agencies,” he said.

The project is one of 25 identified under the blueprint, which aims to give Perak a 40% e-mail usage in rural areas by 2010. The blueprint was launched on Monday to mark the start of Perak ICT Week.

Asked when the project would take off, Dr Zambry said: “We are trying to start it as soon as possible.”

He said the state government was now working out the details of its implementation.

He added that all application forms pertaining to matters of the state would have a column for an e-mail address for easy communication.

Another initiative stated in the blueprint is a “replay” project aimed at improving ICT skills for primary and secondary school students, he added.

“Daily course notes and video recording of daily lectures will be made available online so that students will be able to replay the day's classes after school hours,” he said.

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Email address for newborns

By Mimi Syed Yusof

Newborns in the State will soon be provided not only with birth certificates but also email addresses. The holders will later be able to utilise the facility for various purposes, like applying for jobs.

The move, in what is probably believed to be the first in the country, will be implemented through the "Email4All" project, which is among 25 drawn up under the Perak information communications and technology strategic action plan 2010.

State Education, Multimedia and Human Resources committee chairman Datuk Dr Zambry Kadir said the email addresses would be issued separately from the birth certificate.

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