The contract for the automation of the 2010 Elections has been awarded to the Smartmatic-TIM joint venture.

SMARTMATIC CORPORATION, INC.
http://www.smartmatic.com

Smartmatic Group is a multinational group of companies that designs and deploys technological solutions intended to help governments fulfill, in the most efficient way, their commitments with their citizens. It is one of the largest, most advanced technology suppliers, with a wide and proven experience in the United States, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Smartmatic Group aims to help societies become more efficient and transparent through relevant technological innovations. Its capacity for innovation and wide range of products and services has earned Smartmatic extensive recognition in the technology community worldwide.

Smartmatic Group is organized around three business areas: Electronic Auditable Voting Systems (SAES), Intelligent and Integrated Security Platforms (USP) and Advanced Solutions for People Registration and Authentication (SIMS) for a wide range of government applications.

As a leading global provider, Smartmatic Group has an international ownership structure comparable to other multi‐nationals companies. Smartmatic Group is a private capital Netherlands/Netherlands Antilles Corporation, which owns several subsidiaries located in the United States, Netherlands, Venezuela, Mexico, Ecuador and Barbados.

Since August 2004, Smartmatic has successfully organized and performed multiple national and regional elections using an electronic voting solution in Latin America (eight nationwide electoral events), the Caribbean, Asia (the first completely automated election ever held in the Philippines ‐ Autonomous Region Muslim Mindanao) and, the United States (through Sequoia Voting Systems, a company divested in November 2007, but currently a partner to distribute Smartmatic’s election technology in the US market).

Over the years, Smartmatic has developed a comprehensive insight of each of electoral project, and has crafted solid relationships with our customers.

 

TOTAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
http://www.timcorp.net

Total Information Management (TIM) Corporation is a fully Filipino‐owned Information Technology (IT) company with nationwide operations offering varied products and services. It considers itself as “The Filipino IT Company” competing in a field dominated by multinationals.

Established in 1985 initially as a vendor for remanufactured and refurbished IBM mainframes, TIM today is a multi‐product and multi‐services company catering to all of the IT needs of various industries. TIM has an Authorized Capitalization of One Billion Pesos (Php 1B) of which Four Hundred Million Pesos is paid‐up. Revenues generated from sales of products and services have been consistently over P700 Million annually. Its growing workforce of 110 regular and 150 project employees are a testament to the company’s organizational stability and dynamism.

Source: Smartmatic-TIM’s Technical Proposal to the 2010 Elections Automation Project

 

Posted: 09.05.09 SMBR