Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

10th Smart Cards + Smart Label (RFID) 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

Dates: March 21 - 23, 2008
Venue: China World Trade Center
Location: Beijing, China
URL: http://scsl-china.com/en/index.asp
Contact: David Wang, Rachel Pang, Doris Lu , Card@263.net

Description: This Conference and Exhibition has doubled in size compared to the previous years’ events, highlighting the increased interests in the topic from all industry sectors, from banking, telecom, social welfare, National ID and passport, tax-control, RFID/tag technology application for logistics, packaging and printing.
You come to Beijing and we do the REST! Looking forward to seeing you at 10th Smart Cards + Smart Label (RFID) China & Users’ Conference 2007 in China World Trade Center, Beijing! [end] 

The South African Ministry of Home Affairs announced the expansion of its smart ID card pilot program, reports IT Web.

According to Home Affairs director-general Mkuseli Apleni, the smart ID card program is part of an effort by the national government to shed its racist past and create one identification card for all citizens. It will replace the current civic and immigration identity systems and capture demographic and biometric data of all South Africans and foreign nationals.

read more »

The Invercargill City Council announced it will equip its passenger transport buses with new electronic ticketing machines in the hope that it leads to the introduction a new smart transit card system, according to The Southland Times.

read more »

The market for smart cards and secure ICs achieved double-digit year-over-year growth for shipments in 2011, demonstrating increases of 16% and 15%, respectively, according to ABI Research

read more »

Within the next five years the market for smart cards, secure ICs, inlays, biometric data capture, card personalization, printing and issuance in government, health care, and citizen ID will be in excess of $72 billion, according to ABI Research.

read more »

The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation Ltd., Aavin, in Chennai, India has gotten off to a rough start, with many participants complaining about incorrect data stored on government-issued smart cards, reports The Hindu.

read more »

Kuwait’s Public Authority for Civil Information (PAIC) will be phasing out identity cards for foreigners working in the country’s public service sector in favor of smart cards, reports the Gulf News.

read more »