Re: [ossig] Govt ICT infrastructure

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>]

After going through the whole thing ie : requirements, charges of the whole 
thing I discovered even more disturbing facts

	The system actual charge user based on per Kb transacted, and this come to 
about RM1.20 per Kb. From what I gathered from the service provider, for each 
item you exported that comes to about RM3.60 per line item. In theory this is 
not very expensive and it is true for bulk freight forwarding in and out of 
the country via ports, where one shipment usually consist of bulk of the same 
item.

	However, when in comes to local implementation, i.e. via supply to various 
Free Trade Zone within the country, (this would technically consider as 
export), the situation is different.  Local SME/SMI supply products into FTZ 
and thanks to the Just-in-time system practice by most MNC, local SME/SMI has 
to make daily delivery into FTZ. IF you are a company that supply around 50 
line items per day (which is quite normal for local vendor into FTZ), it 
comes to about  50 X 3.60 = RM180 per day and that's about RM4680 per month 
just for EDI charges.  With the current manual system, vendor pays RM0.80 per 
form which covers 5 line item. Off course EDI improve efficiencies and so on 
buy in cost comparison it would be around RM208 vs RM4680 using the same 
example with the new national EDI system. 

	When asked about this, dagangnet replied that, they are charging based on 
rate agree upon by government. 

	ICT suppose to save cost, but in this case, there's a 22.5 times increase in 
cost.  Makes you wonder doesn't it ?


On Tuesday 23 September 2003 5:28 pm, Imran William Smith wrote:
> I agree 100%.
>
> Trouble is, the 'government's drive towards open source/linux' is
> currently only various statements from ministers' speeches coupled with
> various initiatives that are not co-ordinated nationally.  Until
> there's a proper national OSS policy, different bits of Government can
> use what software they want.
>
>
> MIMOS is one of the parties requesting that a national OSS policy is
> drawn up.
>
>
> Imran


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