Millie Mail
History Features Details Q & As Timing Specs	Millie (Millennium Individual Lifelong Learning Identity for Everyone) Mail was to be the UK's national public service, developed by Ultralab, to deliver the promised one- e-mail address per school student for the Millennium and related to the Millennium Dome. After the promised slightly evaporated (!) this became the foundation for the free-to-use, advertising free, Scoop project developed by Oracle and Ultralab, which in turn begat Think.com. Key features were: It gives all children an safe digital identity They keep these for life All teachers have one too The identity database is protected in many ways that could not otherwise be in place It will form the basis, as children get older, of a secure digital identity for the whole population Many national public services can be delivered uniquely and safely through the Millie Mail service These pages explain the concept in detail and offer a framework for debate about the key features described. In the end we are confident that our nation will need to come back to this concept. You may also enjoy a quick look at the specifications that are yet to be implemented in Think, but that are probably needed to build a fully functioning learning community tool. An operating system" for communities. -Home | History | Features | Details | Q & As | Timing| To Do
Stephen Heppell	October 1998

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