Charles R. Black, Jr., Appointed to the Board of e-Smart Technologies, Inc.

WASHINGTON, July 17  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- e-Smart Technologies, Inc., (Pink Sheets: ESMT) ("e-SMART" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Charles R. Black, Jr., as a director of the Company.  Mr. Black is the Chairman of BKSH & Associates and is recognized as one of the nation's leading public affairs professionals.

Mr. Black is best known as one of America's leading Republican political strategists and has served as senior advisor to Presidents Reagan and Bush. He also served as a principal public spokesman for President Bush in the 1992 presidential campaign. During 1990, Mr. Black served as chief spokesman for the Republican National Committee and in 2000 Mr. Black also served on President George W. Bush's campaign as a volunteer political advisor and surrogate spokesman.

An attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience in government, public affairs and politics, Mr. Black has managed the successful elections of more than ten members of the U.S. Senate and more than a dozen members of Congress.

Mr. Black serves as the principal legislative and public affairs advisor to several Fortune 500 companies and trade associations.  He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Civitas Group, LLC., a unique multi-disciplinary security consulting firm.  The leadership team at Civitas is an impressive gathering of top security experts, including Robert H. Swindell, who spent nearly two decades with Lehman Brothers as head of its U.S. Technology Banking; David Howe, a former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and the Senior Director for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the Homeland Security Council at the White House; Penrose "Parney" Albright, former Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology; Richard A. Falkenrath is the former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Policy and Plans within the Office of Homeland Security and Warren Rudman, former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire who served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President Clinton and was Co-Chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security.

"We're very pleased," said Mary Grace, President and CEO of e-Smart Technologies, "that Mr. Black has agreed to serve as a director of the Company. Mr. Black's political experience and expertise," explained Ms. Grace, "along with his successful history as a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies will be a great asset to e-Smart."

In commenting on becoming a director of the Company, Mr. Black said "I believe e-Smart's advanced Super Smart Card(TM) and Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)(TM) can provide the protection and security that the US and the world needs today and I'm very pleased to be part of bringing this important technology to the world."

e-Smart is also pleased to announce its new website address at http://www.e-smart.com/. All information concerning developments with the company will be made available at the new website and no longer available at http://www.e-smarttechnologies.com/.

e-Smart is the exclusive licensee in the US and Asia of the Super Smart Card(TM), the Super Smart Passport(TM) and the Biometric Verification Security System (BVS2)(TM). The Company seeks to be the leading provider of high technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism. e-Smart's systems and products enable government agencies and commercial enterprises to continuously and securely verify the identity of citizens, personnel, customers and any other persons seeking physical or logical access. e-Smart Technologies offers what experts believe to be the highest form of identity-based and credential-based security with no profiling or erosion of civil rights.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

Statements in this news release that relate to future plans, financial results or projections, events or performance are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. While these statements are made to convey to the public the Company's progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent the management's opinion. While management believes such representations to be true and accurate based on information available to the Company, at this time, actual results may differ materially from those described.

For more information about e-Smart Technologies, please visit our new website at http://www.e-smart.com/ or contact e-Smart Media Relations at 703-768-7477. 

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