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This Community Service Project was initiated by the
Lions Club of Bundanoon in rural New South Wales, and was formally adopted by
District N2 at the 2010 District convention on October 10, 2010, where the
motion received unanimous support.
Since then, the Project has gone from
strength to strength. It was introduced and received favourably at the 2010 Multiple District
convention in Mildura, then the International convention in Sydney.
Clubs in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and the
Australian Capital Territory signed up to the program, while there was also been keen interest shown by several
overseas Clubs, with one from Hawaii placing a substantial order.
A major development took place at the beginning of 2011
when flashID was licensed by Lions Clubs International for sale worldwide as a
Lions branded product.
Since then, a further order has been dispatched to the
US, while in Australia, the Project exhibited with great success at the recent
MD201 convention in Launceston, Tasmania. We shall also be present at several
District conventions in Australia, at the Lions Clubs International
convention in Seattle, USA, and the ANZI-Pacific Forum on Queensland's Gold
Coast.
The principle of the flashID Emergency
Identification System is so simple and elegant that the immediate reaction
when many people see it for the first time
is, why didn't anybody think of this before?
Click on the picture for an enlargement
In simple terms, the flashID System is based on a document
containing personal identification, medical history, details of GP and other doctors,
next of kin, and so on. The pre-formatted document shown above is pre-loaded on a USB device that
may be part of a thumb drive (below left), built into a card the same size as a
driver's licence or credit card (below right) or even incorporated in the band
of a watch.

In simple terms, the flashID System is based on a document
containing personal identification, medical history, details of GP and other doctors,
next of kin, and so on. The pre-formatted document shown above is pre-loaded on a USB device that
may be part of a thumb drive (below left), built into a card the same size as a
driver's licence or credit card (below right) or even incorporated in the band
of a watch.

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