National Entitlement Card: Dundee Programme

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eMoney (electronic money on your NEC):

In an exciting new project Dundee City Council / National Entitlement Card are offering the chance to add sQuid eMoney to your card. This will enable you to pay for low value items using an electronic purse and it is being made available to those National Entitlement Card holders who wish to use it. You will be able to top-up your card on-line or in shops and use it in a variety of local Dundee retailers.

sQuid is a new kind of cash - smart cash. It can be used for those everyday items such as your morning coffee, your favourite magazine and your lunchtime sandwich - in fact any purchase with a low transaction value. It makes paying for things extremely easy and convenient and saves you from fiddling about with coins, helping you to keep an eye on your money and where it’s going.

It will be made available for all National Entitlement Card holders. As we roll out National Entitlement Cards to all Dundee Citizens, you’ll all be able to take advantage of sQuid eMoney.

The project has been piloted in Bolton and Dundee is next in line to benefit from the scheme. Eventually the facility will be available country-wide. To find out more about sQuid visit, www.squidcard.com

The range of services currently available on your Dundee National Entitlement Card (NEC)* include:

Scotland-wide free bus travel for older and disabled people:

This was introduced on 1st April 2006 and incorporated into the Scottish Government’s National Entitlement Card (NEC) and replaces existing local free bus travel arrangements. The scheme is open to anyone aged 60 and over as well as many disabled people.

Taxicard:

This scheme offers discounted travel to people who receive DLA mobility component at the higher rate and who have been assessed by the Medical Advisory Service. It is delivered on a National Entitlement Card as part of the national concessionary travel scheme for disabled people. Dundee's uniquely delivered taxicard scheme makes technology work for us as simply as possible without the need for vouchers or other pieces of paper to complete.

Further details are available from

Customer Services
Floor 2, Tayside House
Crichton Street
Dundee, DD1 3RB
Tel: 01382 433267

Discounted Travel for Young People:

If you’re aged between 16 and 18, you’re eligible. Full-time volunteers aged between 16 and 25 are also eligible to apply for discounted travel. Visit www.givememycard.org for more information.

Young Scot:

For those aged between 11 and 25, the NEC is your Young Scot Card. The card also works as your Proof of Age (the PASS hologram) and Euro under 26 card. Use it to claim local, national and international discounts. It's all these things rolled into one. Visit www.youngscot.org for all the details and more.

Library:

Use your card in your local library. If you already hold a Dundee NEC or Dundee Discovery Card, there’s no need for an additional library card. The Dundee NEC / Dundee Discovery Card can be used for your library membership as well. Simply let the library staff know that you now have a Dundee NEC or Dundee Discovery Card and they will do the rest. No need for additional forms to complete. See Dundee Libraries for membership details.

Leisure:

Your leisureactive membership, now delivered on the Dundee NEC / Dundee Discovery card is the exciting new scheme run by Dundee City Council in its swim and sports centres throughout Dundee. See www.leisure-active.com for further details and an application form. Leisure concessions memberships are also available and are delivered on the same card.

Schools Programme:

Launched on 23rd October 2002 at St John’s RC High School. All of the City’s secondary schools are now using the Dundee NEC. Pupils and staff at the school can use their card for school meals, for the vending machines and also in the school library. The pupil's card also incorporates the Young Scot branding, linking to the Dialogue Youth Initiative as well as incorporating the Proof of Age Standards Scheme (PASS) hologram.

University of Abertay, Dundee:

The University of Abertay, Dundee in partnership with Dundee City Council issued their matriculation cards in September 2005 as part of the Dundee Discovery Card Scheme.

All staff and students have now been issued with their new multi-application smartcard which will enable them to use library services within the University and also the Council's library membership and leisure membership.

Credit Union – Save By The Bell:

In an innovative project Dundee Discovery Card office are working in partnership with Save by the Bell, a Junior Saver branch of Discovery Credit Union to allow pupils at Baldragon and Lawside Schools to use their cards to save their pennies and more. Primary School Savers are thus encouraged to continue their savings through secondary school and learn the habit of saving. Further details are available from the Save by the Bell webpage.

Dundee Discovery Card:

If you’re aged between 26 and 59 and do not qualify for the Scotland wide concessionary travel scheme, the services above will be delivered on The Dundee Discovery Card until the Dundee National Entitlement Card rolls out to all citizens.

WSPES: Widening Setting Processess for Electronic Signature

Dundee is part of a European project aimed at using digital certificates whereby a citizen can prove who they are, when dealing with a Council or Business, just as well as if they were face to face in an office. The technology behind this is proven and mature and is known as PKI (public key infrastructure).

W-SPES will try to make its use more widespread by removing some of the existing obstacles and helping establish some common ways of working across the EU. The original partners were the cities of Prato, Saarbruecken and Sheffield. These have now been joined by the cities of Bremerhaven, Dundee, Koper and Sunderland along with participants from the provinces of Prato and Piacenza.

The work of this project will enable many more kinds of transactions to be carried out online, confident that security and privacy is being taken care of. We need to create a large number of uses for the digital signature so that it becomes common place which will then encourage further appplications to be developed.

In Dundee the applications that we are implementing are: Annual Leave and Reimbursement of Expenses (Internal organisation only) and Common Housing Register and Section 5 Housing Referrals.

Further details can be found at www.wspes.org

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