There's Facebook,Yahoo,Hotmail,Google, I dont need a 1Malaysia email.....

Local IT player Tricubes Bhd will invest RM50 million in the 1Malaysia Email Project to provide an account each for official purposes, to all Malaysians aged 18 and above.

The project, said Prime Minister Najib Razak, in announcing it at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre in Putrajaya today, will allow direct and secure communications between citizens and the government.

Its purpose is also to enhance the delivery of government services to consumers and businesses alike. The description of the project in handouts distributed during the event, said the 1Malaysia email and portal will be a 'one-stop centre for government services, providing value-added services such as social networking, checking bills online and payment'.

Khairun said that Tricubes was working on the project in collaboration with Microsoft.He also revealed that his company will own the portal and email infrastructure once it is completed sometime in July.However, he failed to address a question as to how the company will recoup the millions of ringgit in investment.

It was also not apparent how having an email system as an Entry Point Project (EPP) will help to drive Malaysia's transformation to a high-income nation. Tricubes is also one of the companies involved in the project to supply MyKad and the biometric passport to Malaysians.

Tricubes Bhd, which has been awarded the RM50 million contract to launch the 1Malaysia email service, is a financially troubled company. The little known technology firm is one of the 12 companies listed by Bursa Malaysia as a GN3 company because of its “poor or adverse financial condition”. Under Bursa Malaysia guidelines, the GN3-status classification would make the company eligible to seek help from the Corporate Debt Restructuring Committee to restructure its debts.

Tricubes could be delisted if it fails to convince Bursa that it has a proper recovery plan within 12 months, which include the settlement of all its debts. The RM50 million government contract will no doubt help breath new life in the ailing company.

The 1Malaysia Email Project is conceived to provide email accounts for official purposes to all Malaysians aged 18 and above.

According to Prime Minister Najib Razak today, the email allow direct and secure communication between Malaysian citizens and the government.

Its purpose, he added, is also to enhance the delivery of government services to consumers and businesses alike.

However, government think-tank Pemandu is quick to clarify that the email project is a “private sector-led initiative by Tricubes, with investment from the company and not the government”. It also stressed that the 1Malaysia email address is “not compulsory for all Malaysians”.

Opposition politicians and members of the public, however, have already starting blasting the project.

'The rip-off of the century'

An anti-1Malaysia e-mail Facebook account has already been set up with 1,500 members on board less than three hours after it was set up slightly before 4.30pm. Through Twitter, meanwhile, messages have already spread criticisms against the idea. Among them was from DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang, who described the idea and RM50 million fund as “the rip-off of the century.”

Batu MP Tian Chua, in his tweet, asked whether Najib could offer a 1Malaysia diaper for every newborn baby, or a toilet bowl for every household.

Bukit Lanjan assemblyperson, Elizabeth Wong, questioned how the e-mails could be provided free of charge. “What became of the Perak government's free email project some years' ago?” asked the Selangor exco member.

PAS' Titiwangsa MP Dr Lo'Lo Mohd Ghazali tweeted tongue-in-cheek that RM50 million could have been used to buy four big screen to add to the two 35-story screens already fixed onto two sides of the Umno-owned Putra World Trade Centre building. She also questioned who would audit the costs of the project.

Subang Jaya assemblyperson Hannah Yeoh, meanwhile, asked: If the federal government can give all Malaysians a 1Malaysia email account, why cant they register voters automatically?

“I do not want to have a BN email account as 1Malaysia is BN,” she added.

Malaysiakini chief executive officer Premesh Chandran said the costs of maintaining the e-mail project would by itself by controversial: “There is a need to maintain the site. Most of it will be for maintenance, to have the software in place, and make sure it is up to date. There is also the danger of spamming, so it involves a lot of risk and possibly costs,” he said.

Since 50 percent of Malaysians do not even have Internet access, why give them emails, Premesh asked further.

On the other hand, there are seven million Facebook users in Malaysia and such messages could be delivered via facebook for free.

He also questioned why users would want to access their bills via the 1Malaysia email account when some have already registered their emails with service providers like Telekom Malaysia, and Tenaga Nasional Berhad. continue reading here.

source:malaysiakini

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RM50 juta duit rakyat kini ditabur untuk selamatkan syarikat kroni UMNO.....RM50 juta boleh digunakan untuk menaiktaraf perkhidmatan internet dan jalur lebar di negara ini

Berpuluh2 browser menawarkan e-mail percuma,kenapa perlu 1Malaysia email? Tak payahlah membazir duit rakyat semata2 nak bantu seekoq dua kroni yang dah hampir bangkrap....

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