Smart Card Alliance Smart Card Talk
April 2008 • Volume 13 Number 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Council and Task Force Report

Alliance Members:   Participation in all current councils is open to any Smart Card Alliance member who wishes to contribute to the council projects.  If you are interested in participating in any of the active councils, please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).  

Transportation Council

  • The Council is working on a white paper on serving the unbanked and underbanked. This white paper will provide an educational overview of the various methods available for providing and re-loading fare media to people who do not have credit or debit cards, nor checking or savings accounts, and generally lack relationships with traditional banking institutions. Please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org) if you'd like to participate in this projects.
  • The Council completed and published the new white paper, "Co-Branded Multi-Application Contactless Cards for Transit and Financial Payments." The white paper describes an approach for transit/financial payment convergence that leverages co-branded card marketing programs and the multi-application capabilities provided by smart card technology. The white paper is intended for mass transit agencies that are considering implementing a new contactless fare payment program or enhancing an existing program through collaboration with the financial community. It is also intended for financial payment card issuers, processors, and service providers who are considering working with mass transit agencies.
  • If you are interested in participating in the Transportation Council, please contact the Council chair, Paul Korczak (paul.korczak@nyct.com), vice chairs, Craig Roberts (croberts@uta.cog.ut.us) and Ian Newberg (inewberg@moorestown.parkeon.com), or Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).

Physical Access Council

  • The Physical Access Council had an excellent presence at ISC West in April, showcasing Council activities. Roger Roehr (Tyco), Lars Suneborn (Hirsch) and Bob Gilson (DoD/DMDC) participated in a Smart Card Alliance panel, "HSPD-12 Physical Security Migration Strategy." In the Alliance booth, five members -- ActivIdentity, CoreStreet, Hirsch, SI International, and Tyco -- demonstrated the issuance and personalization of the FIPS 201 PIV card and its use for both physical and logical access.
  • The Physical Access Council submitted comments on NIST's second draft of SP 800-73-2.
  • The Physical Access Council is now holding review calls and compiling comments on NIST SP 800-116.
  • If you are interested in participating in the Physical Access Council, please contact Council chair, Roger Roehr (rroehr@tycoint.com), vice chair Bob Merkert (rmerkert@scmmicro.com), secretary Lolie Kull (lolie.kull@eds.com) or Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).  

Healthcare Council

  • The Healthcare Council is developing an education program to raise the awareness of smart cards and their use in healthcare applications.
  • If you are interested in participating in the Healthcare Council, please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org). 

Contactless Payments Council

  • The Merchant Business Case Work Group is developing a merchant return on investment model for implementing contactless payments.
  • The Mobile Payments Work Group has completed research with industry stakeholders on perspectives on emerging mobile payments business model scenarios and is now developing a report of the results of the research.
  • The Security Work Group is developing a new white paper to describe the security features that are available with smart card technology.
  • If you are interested in participating in the Contactless Payments Council, please contact the Council co-chairs, Mohammad Khan (khanm@vivotech.com), or Charles Walton (cwalton@insidefr.com), or Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org). 

Identity Council

  • The Identity Council is developing a new white paper, Using the PIV Model for Enterprise Access Control. This white paper will provide an overview of the key considerations for using the PIV model and FIPS 201 for authentication and access control to facility and IT resources within an enterprise. If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).
  • The Identity Council is developing a new white paper on using FIPS 201 and smart cards for first responder programs. If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).
  • The Identity Council has issued a "call for case studies." Alliance member organizations are invited to submit case studies showcasing the use of smart cards in ID applications in any part of the world. The Smart Card Alliance will be creating a new web resource that provides access to the case studies. If you are interested in submitting a case study, contact or Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).
  • If you are interested in participating in the Identity Council, please contact the Council officers, Neville Pattinson (Neville.pattinson@gemalto.com), Steve Howard (showard@thalesesec.com) or Tres Wiley (treswiley@ti.com), or Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org). 

Other Councils

  • All Councils will be holding in-person meetings at CTST, May 12-15, in Orlando, Florida. Meeting agendas and logistics will be announced via the Council email lists.
  • A members-only council web site is available at http://www.sca-councils.org. This is a password-protected site that contains council working documents and contact lists. Each Council area has a separate password since Councils may have different membership policies. If you are a Smart Card Alliance member and would like access to the council site, please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).
  • If you are interested in forming or participating in an Alliance council, contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org).  Click here to download a description of the council structure, proposal process and council interest feedback form. 

New Members

Integrated Health System of Alabama (IHSA), Birmingham, AL www.IHSoA.org
Membership Level: Government
Member Point of Contact: Dr. Sharon Waltz, Development Director
Description: IHSA is an integrated service delivery system of healthcare providers in Alabama

Redeban Multicolor S.A., Bogota, Columbia www.redebanmulticolor.com.co
Membership Level: General (Latin America Chapter)
Member Point of Contact: Enrique Alberto De La Rosa Baena, Presidente
Description: MasterCard and Maestro payments processor in Columbia

 

Web Site News

Updated web content

March 2008 web statistics

  • 90,432 visitor sessions for the month
  • 2,917 visitor sessions per day
  • 548,591 total page views for the month
  • 67,563 Industry News items viewed
  • 3,810 Card Reader Catalog items displayed
  • 6,188 PDF downloads
  • 62,477 Product and Service Directory page views

If you have any suggestions on content that you'd like to see on the Alliance web site, please send them to info@smartcardalliance.org.

Alliance in the News

The Alliance has an active communications program to promote industry messages in business, vertical market, and technology publications. Coverage results from both Alliance press releases and interviews with publications writing articles about smart cards. Selected recent coverage is shown below with links to online articles.

April 2008

March 2008

SCA Latin America News

The Smart Card Alliance Latin America project kicked off on October 19, 2004 with the presentation of the Department of Commerce Market Developer Cooperator Program (MDCP) award totaling $288,000 that forms a partnering effort between the International Trade Administration and SCA to develop international trade and support education, training, and resource development for smart cards in Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean Islands. The Alliance staff has held organizing meetings with ITA field office personnel in Mexico and Brazil to discuss ways to bring smart card awareness and education to the government and commercial markets in those countries. The Alliance has also met with ITA personnel based in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and Miami who are in support roles and are prepared to assist the Alliance's Latin American project.

In July 2005 the Latin America Chapter was launched. Organizations with smart card-related business interests in all Latin American countries and the Caribbean, plus any organization based in North America or internationally with interests in the Latin America markets, should contact Edgar Betts, Manager Business Development – Latin America at 1-954-642-8969 or ebetts@smartcardalliance.org. Memberships are available for Leadership Council, General, Government, and Associate levels.

In May, 2007 the Smart Card Alliance held the first smart card business conference and exhibition in Mexico City. The two day event, developed jointly with the GlobalPlatform organization featured drew more than 200 attendees and featured industry experts from across the Latin American region representing the government ID and security markets and the bank card and mobile payments markets. The event was the first of many future educational and business networking events planned to unite the suppliers and issuers of smart card technology together under the guidance of the Smart Card Alliance Latin American Chapter.

A recent report released by Frost & Sullivan called The Americas Smart Card Market Analysis projected microprocessor smart card shipments of 136.4 million in 2005, and with over a 59 percent annual growth rate projected through 2010. The Latin American smart card market growth is due to many market factors including the migration of mobile telecommunications operators to GSM technology, the migration to EMV in the financial sector, the move to smart transit fare cards and new government and commercial secure identification initiatives. Responding to these market factors, the Smart Card Alliance today announced the formation of a new Latin American chapter to bring together smart card suppliers, partners and customers in order to address the challenges facing smart card deployment in the region.

“The Latin American smart card market is now emerging and could develop more rapidly than other markets by effectively learning from similar smart card initiatives and by forming business partnerships that can quickly deliver successful implementations,” said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance.

The main mission of the Smart Card Alliance Latin American chapter is in line with the overall goal of the Alliance: to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread application of smart cards. The Alliance plans to use specific projects such as bi-lingual education programs, market research, advocacy, industry relations and open forums to keep Latin American chapter organization members connected to industry leaders and innovative thought.

“The Smart Card Alliance has played a valuable role in developing the U.S. market in both the public and private sector. Our organization provides an educational and collaborative forum in which all of the stakeholders—manufacturers, issuers and end users—can work together to develop the cross-industry real-world solutions needed to deploy smart card systems. Our organization is uniquely positioned to bring a collective energy and focus to this technology in Latin America,” said Vanderhoof.

Next Steps:

Below is a summary of the important Latin America Chapter programs and industry activities planned for 2008.

  • SCALA Elects 2008 – 2009 Advisory Council. The leadership council members of the Latin America Chapter held elections in December, 2007 to elect the leadership of the SCALA organization for the next two years.
    • Chair (active first year, supportive second year), Marcelo Bellini Garcia, sales and marketing director, Sagem Orga of Brazil
    • Chair (supportive first year, active second year), Humberto de la Vega, vice-president of sales, Latin America and the Caribbean, HID Global
    • Vice Chair, Ismael Dykman, government sales, Latin America, DataCard Group
    • Secretary, Luis Cohen, commercial director, Gemalto
  • Cards 2008 Brasil. The Smart Card Alliance is accepting applications from organizations wishing to exhibit in the Smart Card Pavilion. Cards 2008 Brasil is the largest card industry event in Brazil. In addition to the pavilion, SCALA will be holding an Educational Institute training course during the conference and assisting in the development of topics presented in the Transportation track during the conference. Contact Edgar Betts (ebetts@smartcardalliance.org) for more details.
  • Expanded Website. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) website was redesigned with all new content in 2007. The new web site URL is http://latinamerica.smartcardalliance.org; or you can select “Latin America Chapter” from the Smart Card Alliance home page. In the coming months, additional white papers, event listings, member profiles, and news stories will be added to the site.
  • White Paper translation. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) has translated five white papers into Spanish and Portuguese to allow the local markets to have access to valuable information in their language. The selection of the white paper to be translated was important in order to be significant to the local markets of Latin America. This action helps the Alliance create an image of not only a U.S. focused institution, but an international and local.
  • Online Educational Program. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) in its efforts to expand its website deliverables to the market it has agreed to host a member online educational program. The program contains information about smart cards in both Spanish and English, covering from basic to some advanced knowledge.
  • Educational Institute – Certification Course. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) Physical Access Council has worked on developing an Educational Institute (E.I.) course that will be used at Expo Seguridad Mexico conference in April 2007 on the use of smart cards for physical access. This course will be a classroom style course provided to the attendees of Expo Seguridad Mexico in the security market. It is intended to be a follow-up course to the physical access course that is provided by The Latin American Security Association (ALAS) at their conference events.
  • Educational/Promotional Video. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) has held meetings with The Latin American Security Association (ALAS) and Obraweb to create online videos for the SCALA website. The idea would be to film one of SCALA’s Educational Institutes (E.I.) in high quality video to provide industry information and promote attendance to the Alliance.
  • Member invitation. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) with the leadership of the Transportation Council has developed a list of organizations in the transportation industry to send a formal invitation to join the Alliance and the transportation council. Due to the limited response of organizations in the region to join the Alliance and participate, the leadership of this council has agreed to use the contacts that the Alliance has acquired and invite them behalf of the transportation council to join our organization.
  • Articles for targeted industry magazines. The Alliance Latin America, Media Outreach Council has established several meeting in Brazil with other participating member organizations to organize the direction and responsibility of the council. As the council achieved it organizational logistics it began developing articles for publishing at identified magazines on behalf of the Alliance.

How to get involved:

If you would like to get involved in any of the Latin American activities listed above or wish to be added to the contact list for future announcements, please send an email to info@smartcardalliance.org.

 

 


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