SNAPI Steering Group
The project partners have been working to engage:
- local authority services – libraries & cultural services, schools, leisure centres
- central government – Youth Opportunity card schemes
- financial services industry – credit, debit and cashless cards
- smart card industry
- assistive technology suppliers
Project partners have produced software which enables personal setting preferences to be stored onto a smart card. Using a standard Windows XP terminal this demonstrates the following:
- the card reading and configuring accessibility options
- when the card is removed the terminal will return to its original state
- the configuration of the card with customised needs
The project will develop software for:
- Specifying or modifying the coding on the card directly on the terminal or indirectly via a website - a prototype website has been developed snapiwizard.mangoswiss.com
- Reconfiguring the user interface on a range of terminals
A steering group has been formed of:
Dr John Gill led the EU Saturn project on the use of smart cards by people with disabilities; one of the outcomes of this project was the standard for the coding of user requirements on smart cards. He is a member of British and European standards committees on smart cards, and he was a member of the National Smart Card Project.
Lord Merlin Erroll - Earl of Erroll, Member of the British Parliament, President and Founder of VoiceXchange. He sits on the council of PITCOM (Parliamentary Information Technology Committee), is on the board of EURIM (European Information Group) and is secretary of apComms (All-Party Parliamentary Communications Group).
Mick Davies - Chairman of LASSeO (Local Authority Smartcard Standards e-Organisation), Board member for the European Centre for Automatic Identification and Data Capture in Halifax, and champion of the Sheffield-based European Centre for Smartmedia and e-Inclusion. He is a member of the Smartcard Networking Forum Core Group.
Geoff Doggett - Chair of the Smart Card Networking Forum, the senior public sector smart media organisation with 600 members from over 300 organisations. He is also a consultant on smart card systems.
This steering group operates as a sub-group of LASSeO (Local Authority Smartcard Standards and eServices Organisation). LASSeO has been registered as a non-profit limited company which means that it can act as the repository for the intellectual property rights resulting from the SNAPI project.