yes, i believe the article has highlighted a very important opportunity moving forward - the implementation of cyber id authentication for malaysia.
imagine the potential - register once and use the id to access all the participating govt agencies (no need to register). example : dbkl / tnb / ptptn send me my bill / statement through the email. in the statement there is a button Bayar, and when i click on it, my browser displays the login page for the agency, i login with myemail.my id and password, then can pay for the bill. that will save me and the agencies a whole lot of hassle just to maintain usernames / accounts / passwords for the hundreds of agencies. now we will have a platform to implement 'single sign-on' we had myeg, rileks which acted as single portal to govt agencies - but this worked on a centralised portal concept. with a single sign-on, we can have a distributed concept. so now the opportunity are for 1. web developers among us, to figure out how to make our portals / web apps to work with this myemail id. 2. os developers among us, to figure out how to make windows live id to work on non-windows client machines see example for drupal : http://drupal.org/project/winliveid this single sign-on would be great for one of my past clients, where we had to request guests to register, then someone in the agency to check that the information is valid before approving the registration, then we also had to have features like recalling lost password / etc. with myemail.my, we could just ask them to logon using their current id, and we could have that automatically authenticated. no need to re-register and try to remember the password for so many websites. -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://www.mosc.my/
