OpenCard.org
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Welcome to OpenCard !
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What is OpenCard and the OpenCard Framework ?
Through their combination of mobility and security, smart cards are playing an increasingly important role in the rapidly developing areas of electronic commerce and online information services. This development is based on a network-centric view of computing where resources are located throughout the network and access to them is ubiquitous. Authenticated access and secure transactions are indispensable prerequisites for the secure functioning and continued growth of the information economy. Smart card aware applications and services will be the means by which this will be achieved.
OpenCard Framework is a standard framework announced by an Industry consortium ( list of members ) that provides for inter-operable smart cards solutions across many hardware and software platforms. The OpenCard Framework is an open standard providing an architecture and a set of APIs that enable application developers and service providers to build and deploy smart card aware solutions in any OpenCard-compliant environment.
