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.

The Association delivers information, consultancy, guidance and networking to corporations and government organisations, including smart card scheme operators and suppliers, providing an unparalleled opportunity to solve problems, facilitate smart card initiatives and generate increased business development.

The Smart Card Forum of India – or SCAFI - is a non-profit, multi-industry organization promoting the wide spread acceptance of multiple application smart card technology.

The Forum has leading companies in banking, financial services, telecommunications, computer, technology, health care, retail, entertainment industries, as well as a number of government agencies as members.

The convergence of these major industry players is unprecedented and represents a shared vision and commitment to providing an interoperable platform for the delivery of a new generation of products and services based on smart card technology.

The International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA) serves the dynamic plastic card industry and the various companies and organizations involved in manufacturing and personalizing these cards. Billions of plastic cards now fill pockets and purses throughout the world. As the complexity of card manufacturing and applications has increased, so have the production, standards, quality, security and environmental issues surrounding the cards. The need to bring together these diverse elements of the plastic card industry led to the formation of the ICMA.

THE INDUSTRY’S BENCHMARK SILICON BASED SECURITY PARTNER PLATFORM

As a non-profit, membership organization, the Silicon Trust’s mission is;

“To stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread acceptance of silicon-based security solutions in a variety of applications.”

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The Information Technology Standards Committee (ITSC) was formed in 1990, under the purview of the Standards Council appointed by the SPRING Singapore. It is an industry-led effort made up of volunteer members from the industry, but supported by SPRING Singapore and IDA Singapore. It is a neutral and open platform for interested industry and government parties to come together to agree on technical standards.

ITSC promotes and facilitates the national Infocomm standardisation programmes and the participation of Singapore in international Infocomm standardisation activities. ITSC fulfils its role by appointing the various technical committees and work groups to develop Singapore Standards where no international or industry standards exist and/or recommend the adoption of international standards as Singapore Standards. The participation in local and international standardisation efforts are also done through the appointed technical committees and working groups. There are at present some 350 technical experts and representatives from 180 organisations, engaging in ITSC's standardisation activities.

TTT™ (“Triple-T” – Total Tag Technology™) is a technology partnership program which offers total turnkey solutions for the manufacturing of RFID inlays, tags and related products. Best-in-class technology providers in the field of RFID product manufacturing are committed to the TTT™-partnership program in order to provide TTT™-solutions to the customer which can be characterized as:

1.total manufacturing solutions
2.leveraging best-in-class technologies
3.based on qualified processes
4.implemented on flexible equipment
5.highly competitive, ready-to-run