About the Alliance : Member Councils |
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Member Councils
The Smart Card Alliance has member-driven industry and technology councils that are focused groups within the overall structure of the Alliance. Councils have been created to foster increased industry collaboration within a specified industry or market segment and produce tangible results, speeding smart card adoption and industry growth. Groups collaborate on specific deliverables, including reports, briefings and educational material. Active Councils currently include:
Access Control Council: Accelerating the widespread usage of smart card technology for physical and logical access control.
Healthcare Council: Promoting the adoption of smart cards in healthcare organizations.
Identity Council: Promoting the need for technologies, legislation and usage solutions regarding human identity information.
Payments Council: Facilitating the adoption of chip-enabled payments and payment applications through education programs consumers, merchants, issuers, acquirers/processors, government regulators, mobile telecommunications providers and payments service providers.
Transportation Council: Promoting the adoption of interoperable contactless smart card payment systems for transit and other transportation services.
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