Smart Cards Focus of World Affairs Group
How smart is a Smart Card?
Tonight’s speaker at the World Affairs Council of Ventura County will provide an answer while discussing the plastic, wallet-sized cards during a meeting beginning at 7:30 at the Cal State Northridge satellite campus in Camarillo.
“The presentation will be about the little credit cards with computers in them,” said Nathan Pratt, chairman of the council, which is sponsoring the talk. “And how they have taken over in Europe and are now coming to America.”
Pratt said the cards, which will be used throughout Ventura County as bus passes later this year, could eventually contain medical information, and be used as a credit card or airline ticket .
Phillip Tartavall, president of Oberthur Smart Card, one of the largest manufacturers of Smart Cards, will offer a global perspective in promoting the new technology. A representative from the county Transportation Commission will speak about the card’s use locally.
For more information, call Pratt at 386-5752. Cost of the meeting is $10 for members and their guests, $15 for nonmembers.
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