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Smart Card Alliance Presents 2008 OSCA Awards for Outstanding Smart
Card Achievement
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
The Smart Card Alliance announced the 2008 award winners for
"Outstanding Smart Card Achievement" (OSCA) in the North American and
Latin American smart card industry during its annual conference, taking
place at the CTST 2008 The Americas Conference and Exhibition.
The 2008 Outstanding Smart Card Achievement Award Winners include:
-- Individual Leadership Award: Gilles Lisimaque, partner,
Identification Technology Partners, Inc., for his 20 year record of
accomplishment and leadership in the industry; he holds multiple
patents on smart card security and smart card operating system design,
and has held high-level seats with and actively contributed to the
Smart Card Alliance and numerous other security forums and standards
organizations
-- Outstanding Issuing Organization: U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA) for its role in personalizing and issuing the
federal government's Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards for
more than 65 federal agencies and departments; the PIV is a common,
governmentwide smart card credential for both physical access control
and information security that is being issued to all federal government
employees and subcontractors
-- Outstanding Supplier Organization: Oberthur Technologies, a provider
of smart cards and related services worldwide that has demonstrated
leadership in several sectors of the North American smart card market,
particularly contact-less payment cards and U.S. federal government's
PIV card program -- Smart Card Achievement in Latin America: TIM
Brazil, a mobile GSM company that internally uses digital certificates
and fingerprint match-on-card technology for strong authentication
"We had an exceptional group of OSCA candidates this year, because
there are now so many outstanding organizations involved in high-impact
smart card programs," said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the
Smart Card Alliance. "The judges singled out these candidates for
recognition because of their role in bringing many of these projects to
fruition, their long standing dedication to success, and their
commitment to leadership and education within in our industry."
For the first time this year, the Alliance also recognized the First
Runner Up and Honorable Mention candidates.
The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association
working to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread
application of smart card technology.
More Information: http://www.smartcardalliance.org.
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((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com))
Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News
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