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Smart Card Associations
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All smart card associations of which G&D is an active member are listed on this page. If you are interested in our work in any of the associations mentioned, please contact the people indicated.
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The 3rd Generation Partnership Project
(3GPP) is a collaboration agreement that was established in
December 1998.
The collaboration agreement brings together a number of
telecommunications standards bodies which are known as
"Organizational Partners".
The current Organizational Partners are ARIB, CCSA, ETSI, ATIS,
TTA, and TTC.
The aim of the 3GPP is to work collaboratively for the
production of globally applicable Third Generation Mobile system
technical specifications.
G&D Contact: Christine Telander-Weiss |
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The Asia Pacific Smart Card Association (APSCA)
is a non-profit, independent association for organisations in
the smart card industry in the Asia Pacific region. The
Association delivers information, consultancy, guidance and
networking to corporations and government organisations,
including smart card scheme operators and suppliers.
G&D is a full member of that association since January 2008 and
intends to improve business networking in Asia Pacific with
focus on e-ID, e-Passport, e-Health and transport.
G&D Contact: Fabiola Bellersheim |
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bmcoforum (Broadcast Mobile Convergence
Forum) is an international lobbying association, numbering some
100+ companies and organisations providing a discussion and
promotions platform for companies and institutions, coming from
the media and the telecommunications industry, dealing with the
development of a worldwide open market for mobile broadcast
services.
The activities of bmcoforum are focused on driving and shaping
the business value chain (necessary technical, economic and
regulatory framework) needed for the development of an
economically successful market for mobile broadcast services.
G&D Contact: Soeren Haubold |
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The European Telecommunications Standards
Institute (ETSI) is an independent, non-profit organization,
whose mission is to produce telecommunications standards for
today and for the future. ETSI is officially responsible for
standardization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
within Europe. These technologies include telecommunications,
broadcasting and related areas such as intelligent
transportation and medical electronics
G&D Contact: Michael Meyer |
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EUROSMART is an international association
based in Brussels representing all segments of the European
smart card industry. EUROSMART was founded with the aim of
- promoting smart cards and smart card systems
- standardizing smart cards and smart card systems
- providing a forum for the exchange of marketing and technical
data
- defining a consistent range of quality and security levels
- lobbying international and national bodies, e.g. by means of
permanent relationships with the European institutions in
Brussels.
G&D Contact: Thomas Kraft |
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GlobalPlatform is the leading,
international association, focused on establishing and
maintaining interoperable specifications for single and
multi-application smart cards, acceptance devices and systems
infrastructure that deliver benefits to issuers, service
providers and technology suppliers. These specifications are
known as the standard for smart card infrastructure.
GlobalPlatform is a member driven association with a growing
cross-industry representation from all world continents.
G&D intensively promotes the use of such industry standards and
common specifications to create new applications for smart
cards. G&D is a full member of the association since 2001 and
has deployed GlobalPlatform based products in various projects
worldwide.
G&D Contact: Dr. Andreas Strobel |
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The Java Card Forum is promoting Java as the favoured programming language for Smart Card applications and focusses on the development and recommendation of specification to Sun Microsystems, Inc.. The Forum's activities are intended to promote the Java Card API specification as an industry standard, reflecting the needs of smart card manufacturers and their customers.
G&D as an active member, is driving this technology since 1996.
G&D Contact: Thomas Kraft
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Since its launch in 1998 as the open,
inclusive process to develop and revise Java technology
specifications, reference implementations, and technology
compatibility kits, the Java Community Process program has
fostered the evolution of the Java platform in cooperation with
the international Java developer community. The JCP has over
1000 company and individual participants; more than 290 Java
technology specifications are in development in the JCP program
out of which 45% are in final stages.
G&D Contact: Michael Meyer |
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The Liberty Alliance Project is an alliance
formed to deliver and support a federated network identity
solution for web and network services that enables single
sign-on for consumers as well as business users in an open
federated way. The Mission is to serve as the premier open
alliance for federated network identity management & services by
ensuring interoperability, supporting privacy and promoting
adoption of its specifications, guidelines and best practices.
G&D as a sponsor member is promoting the use of smart cards in
this environment and drives the development of the necessary
interfaces for smart cards.
G&D Contact: Thomas Palsherm |
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G&D is participating in the MasterCard
Vendor Program, a global program designed to enhance business
relationships between MasterCard Worldwide and the vendors that
supply solutions to MasterCard customers around the world.
Participating vendors use the MVP to build their expertise and
differentiate their products and services. MasterCard's MVP
representatives keep vendors up to date on MasterCard's product
and business strategy, aligned with technical requirements and
harmonized with the rest of MasterCard.
G&D Contact: Fulvio Famularo |
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The MultiMediaCard Association (MMCA) was founded in 1998 to promote the worldwide adoption of a compact, removable standard for storing and retrieving digital information in small, low power devices. In fact, MultiMediaCards are the world’s smallest removable solid-state memory solutions for mobile applications.
With over 100 member companies worldwide, the organization is representing all branches of mobile electronic applications, including semiconductor suppliers, software vendors, and manufacturers of products such as music players, mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), digital cameras, voice recorders, GPS navigation devices and more.
The MMCA develops and regulates open industry standards that define all types of MultiMediaCards, and drives worldwide acceptance of MultiMediaCards as an industry standard across multiple host platforms and markets. The organization aggressively works toward full interchangeability and compatibility (including backward compatibility) between the cards produced by all MMCA members. MultiMediaCards offer an unmatched array of features and benefits, and are becoming the industry standard for compact removable storage media.
As a major provider of smart cards and security solutions, G&D is aiming at building smart card security into MultiMedia cards with appropriate applications. G&D is an affiliated member of the MultiMediaCard Association.
G&D Contact: Harald Gerber
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NFC Forum
NFC Forum
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In 2004, the Philips, Nokia, and Sony corporations joined forces to establish the NFC Forum with the aim of advancing near field communications (NFC) technology as a leading open platform for contactless technology.The Forum promotes implementation and standardization of NFC technology, ensuring interoperability between devices and services. G&D is an associate member of the NFC Forum.
Near field communications is based on a combination of contactless identification and wireless interconnection technologies. NFC makes it possible for users of electronic devices to access content and services in an intuitive manner by touching smart objects or to connect devices by simply holding them next to each other. Secure NFC is a combination of NFC and smart cards or modules containing smart card technology. These modules, for example, payment transaction cards or USIM cards from G&D, prevent fraudulent transactions from being carried out via NFC.
G&D sees strong potential for grown in the market for contactless technology in the mobile world of the future. Contactless smart cards from G&D serve as key technological components for safeguarding contactless applications.
G&D Contact: Michael Meyer, Dr.Christoph Schiller
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The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers
open specifications for creating interoperable services that
work across countries, operators, fixed and mobile terminals.
Driven by users’ needs and the expanding market for data
services, the member companies of the Open Mobile Alliance
stimulate the adoption of new and enhanced information,
communication and entertainment services. The Open Mobile
Alliance includes contributors from all key elements of the
wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely and
efficient introduction of services and applications.
G&D Contact Claus Dietze |
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The SD Card Association is as a new industry-wide organization charged with setting industry standards and promoting wide acceptance for the SD Memory Card in digital applications. The association aims to establish the technical and specification standards for SD Memory Card applications, to continuously promote the SD memory card as the de-facto industry standard, and to encourage the development of digital A/V, wireless communication, and digital networking products that utilize the many unique benefits of SD technology.
G&D is general member of the SD Card Association.
G&D Contact: Harald Gerber
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Silicon Trust Forum
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The Silicon Trust is a platform created for those businesses utilising Infineon's Security IC technology and solutions in their end applications. Its primary goal is to develop and enhance market awareness as well as customer acceptance for individual products and solutions developed by the Silicon Trust's partners. G&D is actively supporting this partner network and its common activities.
G&D Contact: Ingo Liersch
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SIMalliance is the world’s leading
consortium of SIM interest groups. Representing approximately
80% of the global SIM card market, SIMalliance steers industry
innovation and champions the high value business benefits that
SIM services deliver.
G&D is one of the founding members of SIMallaince. Other members
are Gemalto, Incard, Microelectronica, Oberthur Card Systems,
Prism, Sagem-Orga, Eastcom Peace, SanDisk and Xponcard.
G&D Contact: Oliver Richter |
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Founded in December 2004 , the Smart Payment Alliance (SPA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to fostering and facilitating the usage of smart cards for payment. The SPA is committed to promoting chip card –based payment applications, improving value added application interoperability, establishing relevant specifications and improving security and quality for payment cards. SPA´s main objective is to accelerate the transition from traditional magnetic stripe cards to chip-based cards.
G&D, a leading supplier of electronic payment cards, positions itself again as a technology and solution partner for major international payment schemes such as VISA and Mastercard to support them in the further development of specifications and implementations.
G&D Contact: Holger Ziegler
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The Trusted Computing Group
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The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an industry standards body, comprised of computer and device manufacturers, software vendors, smart card manufacturers and others with a stake in enhancing the security of the computing environment across multiple platforms and devices. TCG will develop and promote open industry standard specifications for trusted computing hardware building blocks and software interfaces across multiple platforms, including PC's, servers, PDA's, and digital phones.
As the security leader in smart card technology G&D is promoting the use of security technology since decades and drives the deployment of flexible and secure solutions.
G&D Contact: Michael Poitner
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The USB Implementers Forum, Inc. (USB-IF) was established in 1995 to support and accelerate the market and consumer adoption of USB compliant peripherals. Today, the USB-IF has more than 900 member companies and has led the way in helping companies introduce hundreds of USB-compliant products to the market.
G&D is active in this forum since years, to enable and create new Smart Card applications.
G&D Contact: Thorsten Röske
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For further information please contact:
Heather Klein, Director
Marketing Communications
Tel: 1-703-480-2086
Fax: 1-703-480-2067
Email:
heather.klein@gdai.com
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