TURKEY WANTS TO GIVE EACH OF ITS 70 MILLION CITIZENS AN EMAIL ADDRESS (AND A SEARCH ENGINE TOO)

AZG DAILY
02-12-2009

Turkey

Turkey’s Informational Technology Watchdog announced its intentions
to allocate an e-mail address to each of its 70 million citizens.

According to the Next Web, 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.

The network would also replace foreign mail networks such as Yahoo,
Gmail and Hotmail in Turkey, Acarer was quoted as saying.

This news comes on the back of Turkey’s aim to create its own internet
search engine in 2010, one that meets Turkey’s needs and security
concerns.

"All major search engines used worldwide are based in foreign
countries, which can not meet Turkey’s needs and could bring security
problems," said Tayfun Acarer, chairman of Turkey’s Information
Technologies and Communications Authority Board.

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

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress