ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY [EIT] COSTS AND FUTURE GENERATIONS 16:34 Sun 12 Sep 2005 REF:RITACGL1 TO: Clive FINKELSTEIN cc Australian Government Foremost Australian Consultant Business Consultants ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Senior Management Dear Clive - the e-mails re the injunction to delay the sale of Telstra until the due diligence process has been completed were sent to you because you are one of the most high profile Australian International experts in the Electronic Information Technologies field. You will understand how Australia and the Australian public are being used again as pawns in the game of Political Chess eg 1 Gallipoli 2 War against Japan 3 Test place for Atom Bombs 4 Vietnam 5 Terrorism 6 Free Trade Agreements Unfortunately Government Officials and Politicians may be keeping too close an eye on the Future Fund and the impact it may have on their Superannuation Payments. It is worth reviewing the following Federal Government Acts 1 Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002 2 Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 I have been involved with EDI since 1987 and was invited to attend a one week Conference in Brussels in Jun 1989. At that conference it was announced: 1 2015: All telephone reserve charges will be free 2 2065: The State will bring up all children However since then Government Policies have placed all Countries in the West in perpetual debt and now the Genographic Project is planning to track Genetic DNA - the implications of 11,000 authorised Geneticists releasing "new diseases to be cured by new research in drugs" is chilling. The real concern is that Government Bureaucracies cannot cope with the Population increases, inadequate infrastructures and Global Warming at the same time To understand what is happening with FTAs please review: 1 the "The Politics of Economics" 2 the Speech by the US Trade Ambassador 1 week after the FTA has been signed on 18 May 2004 3 The e-mails to the Management Committee of the Australian Computer Society XML AND E-COMMERCE A key issue in this process is XML and Electronic Commerce. The Banks, Insurance Companies and Superannuation Funds have agreed XML formats to exchange information around the world. eg ref EDI Conference Berlin 1990 The XML Standards for Business and in particular Small & Medium size Enterprises have been made deliberately complex and confusing so it adds costs and delay. This may be a deliberate policy because SMEs are no longer required in the Electronic Business Cycle which is based on current Economic policies and processes. This is why members of the Open Interchange Consortium (www.oic.org) reviewed the UN/EDIFACT standard and developed a simple XML structure for the name and address format for SME Business Contacts GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS SELLING INFO TO EACH OTHER Clive, these issues have to brought out into the Public Forum for discussion as the Privatisation of Telstra will facilitate one government department selling information to other government departments and passing the costs onto the Public in perpetuity without anybody knowing how the cost has been derived ! Similar examples to consider are: 1 Burroughs UK 1973 2 Burroughs Australia 1982 A BURROUGHS UK The first example was when I worked for Burroughs Computers in the UK. One day over lunch in 1973 the Financial Controller told me that we no longer had to employ a sales force as he had made BPS 3,000,000 that year in Currency conversions. In those days we used to make computers in Scotland but the order from England was placed on Burroughs Europe (Luxembourg). The European Head office placed the order on the US who then placed the order on the factory in Scotland. The factory shipped the computers direct to the Branch but the invoices with the different currency exchanges had to come back the same route as the order was placed with a currency transaction every time with every Burroughs company taking a profit. The major difference now in 2005 is that the Tax-payer has to pay to set up the IT systems in each Government department which is then hived off as an NGO for outsourced services to the Government department No wonder Jeremy PAXMAN wrote in his book Friend in High Places" that the Japanese Bureaucrats called retiring from the Civil Services as "Going to Heaven". The "Going to Heaven" refers to becoming directors and members of various Companies and Government Panels. The Japanese Constitution was imposed by the US in 1945. Australian Civil Servants retire to become directors of these NGOs and serve on Government Panels and Government Committees at the Tax-payers expense The only difference is now people are not required to transfer information from one form to another. So what do you do with the people ? 2 SECOND EXAMPLE BURROUGHS AUSTRALIA The 2nd example was in Burroughs Australia in 1982 when I was transferred to Australia as Director of Office Automation. I was invited to attend a meeting with Russ HINZE who was the Minister for Racing for the Queensland Government. At the time the Burroughs TABQ Mainframe Contract was under consideration for a Au$ 3.5 Million upgrade. At the time TABQ was the largest Burroughs Network in the world with Terminals in Cape York down to the Queensland/NSW border over 3,000 miles away. The main part of the discussion revolved around Burroughs providing 4 x B900 computers (each priced at $ 750,000 - factory cost around $ 135,000) to Russ HINZE's private companies. Burroughs got the upgrade. As we have seen many of the Commonwealth Governments are corrupt but that is because the Brtish Process has always been corrupt eg 1 95% of loose cargo shipping resulted in Claims on Lloyd's of London 2 This was always passed onto the customers hence Nickage at the docks was the "accepted Business Risk" 3 When containerisation became widespread in the 1970 the Insurance Actuaries still based the insurances charges on the previous 50 yr history claims for loose cargo shipping 4 The safe Old Boy Syndicates in Lloyds have been making money hand-over-fist while the new boy syndicates were taken to the cleaners. NEXT STEPS Clive you are without doubt one of the best persons to explain to your contacts what is going on with telecommunications and Government Policies before it is too late. There is only 3-6 months before the various Government legislation and Government anti-terrorist Electronic "Locking Down" processes are complete. We have to ensure that information on the Internet can be transferred in a Peer-to-Peer format and not through a Pyramid structure which is controlled from the top via "the very expensive Value Added Network Services - VANS" ref John RAVEN Facilitation Adviser the International Association of Port and Marine Harbours (IAPH) Yours very sincerely Stephen GOULD On behalf of concerned members of the Public
