Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Poland wants smart card IDs for students

Thursday, September 4, 2008

The eventual goal is interoperability, but issuing the card and adding functionality is first

In the past 18 months, two companies have issued more than one million dual-interface smart card IDs to students of 450 universities, colleges and high schools. Interoperability of the applications between the different institutions hasn’t happened yet but it may be on the horizon.

The Polish government thought a smart card student ID system could enable interoperability between universities and make it easier to identify students.

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