TURKEY TO GIVE E-MAIL ADDRESSED TO EACH OF ITS 70 MILLION CITIZENS, INCLUDING INFANTS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
01.12.2009 13:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s Informational Technology Watchdog today
announced its intentions to give an e-mail address to each of its 70
million citizens. The project, called Anaposta, has reportedly already
been developed and tested and will allocate a 10GB storage quota to
its entire population, with ambitions to build an email network to
match its current mobile network.

"Every child will have an email address written on his/her identity
card since birth" said Tayfun Acarer, chairman of Turkey’s Information
Technologies and Communications Authority Board.

It is part of a broader project that involves developing an internet
search engine that is scheduled to be launched in 2010.

"I believe that our search engine will be popular in Turkic countries
and Muslim countries and I am confident that these countries will
trust our search engine," Acarer said.