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  • Dual-Use Payment/ID Cards On The Rise

    Worldwide, the use of convergent smart card programs is one the rise, according to new research from ABI. Convergent smart cards allow businesses or governments to combine a series of different use-types under a single card or device. An increasingly popular application of this technology is the combined government ID-paycard model.

    According to API’s research, the use of such cards is forecasted to increase from 569 million last year to 2 billion by 2019, penetrating over a quarter of the total worldwide population. Leading users of duel ID/paycard technology today are China and Malaysia, which collectively hold 95 percent of converged credentials currently in circulation. The remaining 5 percent are tied up in pilot programs in Russia, Brazil and Nigeria.

  • NADRA introduces Pakistan’s new biometric smart ID cards

    NADRA Chairman Tariq Malik announced Pakistan’s roll out of new smart ID cards last week.

    The announcement was made at the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) Eighth Symposium and Exhibition on MRTDs, Biometrics and Security Standards in Montreal.

    The new cards are identified as Smart National Identity Card (SNIC), Smart National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (SNICOP) and Smart Pakistan Origin Card (SPOC).

  • South African Home Affairs on target to introduce Smart ID Cards in 2013

    The Home Affairs Department of South Africa has issued 100 pilot Smart ID Cards in the first two quarters of this year, well on the way to hitting its target to roll out the Smart ID Card in 2013, allAfrica reported.

    The Smart ID Card will replace existing civic and immigration identity systems and will allow the government to digitally capture all biometric and biographical data of South Africans in one single system.

  • 1.5 billion smart credentials to ship

    The increasing use of smart cards and biometric capture has changed the way government and healthcare citizen ID documentation is viewed, managed and deployed.

    Many governments are adopting smart, chip-based solutions for several reasons:

    • To help combat fraudulent and criminal activities
    • To improve return on investment and bundle several applications in one document to create efficiencies for government departments
    • To make the documents more user-friendly, flexible, and secure for citizens.

  • Arrangements to implement smart card project in Yemen discussed

    The Yemeni-Emirates joint committee held official talks here on Monday to discuss arrangements and procedures to implement the Smart Card Project in Yemen.

    Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi, who chaired the talks session, noted that the smart card project to be implemented in cooperation with UAE is one of the important and vital projects.

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  • AU: Queensland: Ipswich: City nominated for smart network, the Internet of Things

    Ipswich continues to be recognised as one of Australia's leading smart cities after being shortlisted for the top prize at the inaugural Australian Smart Cities Awards.

    The awards, to be held as part of Australia's first Smart Cities Week from October 29-31, recognises and rewards leadership, celebrates best practice and stimulates action to advance the smart cities movement.

  • Australia: Canberra sets standard for smartcards

    A draft framework for regulating government smartcard projects proposes creating "communities of interest".

    These will set the rules for systems interoperability and govern the issue, acceptance and use of cards in sectors such as health, defence, education and social services.

    The proposal, which also canvasses the idea of "framework application modules", is based on work by Australian Government Information Office.

  • Australia: Card to 'save billions'

    Smartcart technology being touted by the Howard Government will save taxpayers billions of dollars by cutting welfare fraud and reducing administrative costs, Treasurer Peter Costello said.

    Improved authentication technology made possible by allowed by smartcards would make it easier for Australians to interact with government departments and agencies.

  • Australia: Cards for all occasions

    In Hong Kong, a bus ticket can buy you a hamburger or a parking spot. Thanks to smart cards and a neat payment system, one piece of plastic, known as the Octopus card, pays for anything from phone calls to taxis.

    In Australia, government agencies are moving ahead with plans that will put millions of smartcards in local wallets and purses within a few years.

  • Australia: Draft standards released for smartcard rollout

    Draft standards and an interoperability framework for all public sector agencies has been released in preparation for the federal government's billion dollar smartcard rollout.

    The three new whitepapers announced today address what Special Minister of State Gary Nairn considers to be the biggest stalling point for a national smartcard rollout - interoperability.

  • Australia: Government employees to road test smartcards

    Federal government employees will become human guinea pigs as a preliminary test to an Australia-wide rollout of smartcards federal government services delivery under a proposal floated by Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz.

    Delivering the keynote address to the government stream at the South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARRC 2005) in Sydney today.

  • Australia: Massive smartcard plan confirmed

    The federal government today confirmed work was underway on a proposal to deploy smartcards to millions of Australians under a project to slash administrative costs and crack down on identity theft.

    Senator Eric Abetz, the Special Minister of State, told ZDNet Australia today he and the Minister for Human Services, Joe Hockey, were working on a project that would see cards incorporating smart chip technology and a photograph of the bearer replace a raft of government services and concession cards, including Medicare cards.

  • Australia: Nairn supports smart card

    The Special Minister of State and Member for Eden-Monaro, Gary Nairn, said the introduction of new smart card systems would improve the delivery of government services to individuals.

    "I have been working with the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) to develop the frameworks necessary to underpin Australia's transition to a more responsive electronic service model, as outlined in the Australian Government's e-Government Strategy, which I released earlier this month," said Mr Nairn.

  • Australia: Queensland drivers first to get smartcard

    E-commerce and other applications possible

    Smart State drivers will be among the first in the world to hold a smartcard for a licence as the technology implementation is finalized and a pilot begins next year.

    Executive director of Queensland Transport's information management division Paul Summergreene said the New Queensland Drivers Licence (NQDL) project was first proposed in 2001 and is now in the procurement process.

  • Australia: Smartcards for Canberra

    All federal public servants may be asked to carry a single chip-equipped identity card as part of moves by the government to improve service delivery and cut fraud using smartcard technology.

    Speaking at the launch of the South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) conference in Sydney, Special Minister of State Senator Eric Abetz said that the government was working on a number of initiatives that could involve the use of so-called "smartcards".

  • Australia: Smartcards to integrate levels of e-government

    The smartcard paradigm will result in better and more secure access to government services across jurisdictions, according to the federal Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn.

    In Sydney to speak at this year's Australian Smart Cards Summit, Nairn said building "communities of interest" will stimulate interoperability which will pave the way for more government use of smartcards.

  • Australian healthcare industry to use smartcards

    For a few years, the National E-Health Transition Authority in Australia has been working with the National Authentication Service for Health to create a smartcard system for the management of patient healthcare plans.

    The project has met some resistance over its life-cycle, and was almost scrapped at one point, according to Australian IT. At one point, NEHTA actually acknowledged that its competitor would be better suited for the smartcard plan. However, a new plan for authentication of Healthcare Identity has been developed, and prospects for the healthcare plastic ID card are getting better.

  • Bahrain Smart Card wins key IT award

    Bahrain's Smart Card project has won a top award at an international IT conference held in New Delhi. Central Informatics Organisation president Mohammed Al Amer received the award at the e-India 2007 conference and exhibition.

    Projects from 36 countries were short listed for the award, organised by the IT magazine I4D.

  • Bahrain: 19 firms in bid for Smart Card project

    NINETEEN companies submitted bids yesterday for a multi-million dinar project to create Bahrain's Smart Card system.

    The multi-purpose electronic card, the first of its kind in the world, is expected to be issued to every individual in Bahrain by the end of next year.

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