Memberships

BITCOM www.bitkom.org

BITKOM represents more than 1,350 companies, with 1,000 direct members, including practically all global players as well as 700 key midsize companies.

BITKOM offers a wide-reaching, powerful network that brings together the best minds and top companies from the digital world. BITKOM organizes a permanent exchange between experts in the field and industry leaders, offering its membership forums to promote cooperation and platforms for contacting crucial clients.

Munich Network www.munichnetwork.com

Munich Network is a regional corporate network that supports the founding, growth and international success of technology companies in greater Munich. Munich Network provides a contact point for founders and entrepreneurs, industry and service companies, investors, research facilities and universities. Members work together to solve their entrepreneurial challenges, share their experiences and ideas, build alliances and motivate each other.

Munich Network also facilitates the financing of company foundations as well as company growth and of expansion by bringing together venture capital firms with investors, banks, and public promotion facilities.

NFC Forum www.nfc-forum.org

NFC Forum is a non-profit industry association that promotes the use of NFC short-range wireless interaction in consumer electronics, mobile devices and PCs. Formed in 2004, the Forum now has 140 members.

Goal:

• Develop standards-based Near Field Communication specifications that define a modular architecture and interoperability parameters for NFC devices and protocols
• Encourage the development of products using NFC Forum specifications
• Work to ensure that products claiming NFC capabilities comply with NFC Forum specifications
• Educate consumers and enterprises globally about NFC

Netc@rds www.netcards-project.com

NETC@RDS for e-EHIC ID project is aiming at achieving initial deployment of an on-line service for the “electronification” of the European Health Insurance Card (e-EHIC) in 16 EFTA/EU countries.

The initial deployment project phase now extends implementations to enable healthcare access for European citizens who provide evidence of entitlement in any of the upcoming 260 Service Units (SU) and around 500 Service Points (SP) across the 16 participating countries (AT, BG, CZ, DE, FI, FR, GR, HU, IT,  LI, NL, NO, PL, RO, SL, SK) at the end of the project.

PC/SC Workgroup www.pcscworkgroup.com

The PC/SC Workgroup is a consortium of various smart card technology companies with two goals:

• to promote a standard specification, to ensure that smart cards, smart card readers, and computers made by different manufacturers will work together; and
• to facilitate the development of smart card applications for PC and other computing platforms.

Silicon Trust silicontrust.wordpress.com

The Silicon Trust program (an Infineon Technologies Partner Platform for silicon based security solutions) is a well-respected and established partnership program within the security industry, and as such, has demonstrated that bringing together a network of security partners can improve relationships with end customers by offering a complete solution across the value chain. 
The program brings together around 50 companies within the security industry to form a network of partners who can work together on business cases within a trusted environment, develop integrated solutions for a combined customer base, and better understand future market trends.

Smartcard Alliance www.smartcardalliance.org

The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for profit, multi-industry association working to accelerate the widespread acceptance of multiple application smart card technology.

Our membership includes leading companies in the banking, financial services, computer, telecommunications, technology, healthcare, retail, and entertainment industries, as well as a number of government agencies. 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.

TeleTrusT e.V. www.teletrust.de/

Non-profit organization fort he promotion of the Trustworthiness of of Information and Communication Technology.

Founded in 1989, the non-profit organization TeleTrusT e.V. (TTT) has more than 90 members and is a network of competences for applied cryptography and biometrics.

TTT brings together users and providers of these technologies and is committed to scalable security solutions in electronic business transactions. Latest example of the TTT work is the formulation of the SICCT-specification for the new eHealth terminals in Germany.