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THE CONNEXIONS CARD. Wendy Violentano Head of Connexions Card Unit – DfES 24 th September 2003. Connexions Card – Current Position. Over 300,000 Cards issued 1600 Learning Centres signed up 2500 Organisations visited 17,000 unique reward redemptions
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THE CONNEXIONS CARD Wendy ViolentanoHead of Connexions Card Unit – DfES 24th September 2003
Connexions Card – Current Position • Over 300,000 Cards issued • 1600 Learning Centres signed up • 2500 Organisations visited • 17,000 unique reward redemptions • 6000 Discounts available • 500,000 Website hits per month • 1,000 cardholder logins per day
Pilot and new activity • Joint Local Authority/Connexions cards • Access to concessionary travel • Cashless Catering • E-Voting • Leisure Pass • Street Kiosks • Extended Age range card (Whole school solution) • Proof of Age (including retailer readers)
Further Development potential • Access Control • Auto enrolment • Transport – Cashless ticketing, Railcard • Portable personal learning record • E-Purse • And many more
WP5 – National Smartcard Project • Why involve a central Government Department? • Access to thinking of OGDs interested in developing smartcards • Reducing the burden of accessing each Department individually • Exploiting investment already made by Treasury • What is in it for DfES? • Exploitation of the technology we purchased • Providing more services to young people • Meeting our aims and objectives
WP5 – continued • What is in it for our project partners? • A ready made platform for smartcard applications • 1 million potential cardholders • Access to latest Government thinking • Good PR? • Which activities does it cover? • Multi-application pilot in Doncaster • Kettering Leisure Pass • Potential E-Voting pilot • Learning how to combine central and local Government applications • Joined up thinking
National Project – lessons so far • It isn’t easy! Healthy suspicion between local and central bodies • but each can learn from the other • There is massive investment going on which can be maximised if we work jointly • Branding is always an issue • There is hope……