-
What is Opencard and what is it for?
Opencard is a multifunctional smart card. Residents and visitors to the city can use the card for services and organisations provided by Prague City Hall, and other partners in the project. Opencard will also serve as a means of improving communication with the City and its offices.
The card can be used:
- As a Smart card for parking payment in paid parking zones
- For identification in the Municipal library of Prague
- For secure access to the Portal of Prague, www.praha.eu
- As a season ticket for Prague public transport
-
What does the name Opencard mean and what does it stand for?
The name and appearance of the card stands for accessibility and convenience. The card will become a symbol of residents' and visitors’ ease of access to the services and institutions provided by Prague City Hall and other partners in the project.
An important aspect that influenced the choice of the English name was that it is easy for Prague residents as well as for foreign visitors to understand. Comprehensibility of the name was also verified in a qualitative and quantitative survey.
-
Will there be only one type or more types of Opencard?
Currently there is only one card that is issued in any holder’s name. This type is bound to a specific person. It is expected that a non-specific card will also be created that will serve mostly for tourists and visitors to Prague.
-
Why are smart cards being introduced on a mass scale just now?
As a member country of the EU, the Czech Republic declared its support for the Lisbon process; the aim of which is to make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy by 2010. One of the most important tools in achieving this target is the broadest possible implementation of information and communication technologies in the public realm.