Our Mission

GlobalPlatform aims to maintain and drive adoption of its technical specifications which provide an open and interoperable infrastructure for smart cards, devices and systems. The GlobalPlatform smart card infrastructure is intended to simplify and accelerate deployments that support multi-application, multi-actor and multi-business model implementations.

In order to achieve this, GlobalPlatform abides by the following guiding principles:

Technology:

• To maintain the stability of specifications, changing them to meet market needs, rather than for technical elegance.
• To preserve backwards compatibility when updating technical specifications.
• To support a security architecture with a range of options to meet different market needs.
• To remain form factor independent and allow implementation on a wide range of devices.

Communication:

• To deliver an external communications program that reinforces the interoperability and benefits of the GlobalPlatform Specifications, in order to educate stakeholders and drive adoption of the technology.

Membership:

• To engage members within the Advisory Council, task force initiatives and technical committees and to seek their active participation within the development of marketing and technical documents and GlobalPlatform's external communications program.