Advanced Card Technologies (ACT) Canada is an international association for the advancement of card technologies; reaching out through seminars, conferences, information exchange work groups, research and many other programs

Card Europe was created in 1994 as a not-for-profit organisation to promote the wide-spread use of smart cards.

GlobalPlatform combines the interests of smart card issuers, vendors, industry groups, public entities, and technology suppliers to define requirements and technology standards for multiple application smart cards. GlobalPlatform manages and further develops the Open Platform specifications originally created by Visa International.

Home of the JavaCard Forum group which works to establish the standards and compatibility of JavaCard Smart Cards.

Created in May 1996 to address critical technical issues related to the integration of ICCs (or Smart Cards) with the PC.

After the merging of the Smart Card Industry Association and the Smart Card Forum into the Smart Card Alliance this non-profit, smart card oriented organization aims to serve as a single voice for the smart card industry in the United States.