Address For All:
Enabling ecommerce
fulfilment to everyone
T
he National Address For All (AFA) initiative
provides both social and commercial benefits
with accurate logistical infrastructure, such
as accurate addresses at its core. Geocoded
addresses, along with Global Positioning System and
navigation technologies, can provide online commercial
activities, such as ecommerce, with appropriate tools to
enhance their service quality and efficiency.
From the ecommerce industry’s perspective, the AFA
initiative will be able to provide primary data for the
various organisations that deliver items to a dispersed
consumer base. In other words, ecommerce merchants
will be able to utilise the newly-assigned national
addresses provided by the AFA implementation. The
AFA would be contributing significantly in economic
development across the nation to communities in both
urban and rural areas in developing their businesses.
The initiative aims to identify incomplete addresses
and assign them with a proper house number and premise
addresses. From surveys, it is revealed that there are still
many areas with incomplete addresses. These incomplete
or incorrect premise addresses pose difficulties to various
parties - for example during emergency situations,
where the time taken to look for an address can be the
difference between life and death for the residents in the
affected premises.
ECOMMERCE
Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile
commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply management,
internet marketing, online transaction processing,
electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management
systems, and automated data collection systems.
Mohd Iskandar King
[email protected]The newly-assigned national addresses initiative will solve
the issue of premises with incomplete addresses.
Feature
Pos Malaysia’s launch of Address for All (AFA) project at Kampung Pirasan, Kota Belud, Sabah. Launch ceremony was
graced by YB Datuk Seri Dr. Mohd Salleh Tun Said Keruak, Minister of Communications and Multimedia.
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