Worldwide Partners

Visa
  Visa, the first global sponsor of the IPC and sponsor of four Paralympic Games since 2002, is the official payment service and only card accepted at all Paralympic Games venues to purchase Paralympic tickets, official Games merchandise, or food and beverages in venues.

Visa retains exclusive marketing and promotional rights within the Payment Services category and activation opportunities for financial institution clients and merchants throughout the world.

By engaging in dialogue, raising awareness of existing Visa products and services (e.g., online banking and bill payment, Visa Paralympic website), developing new technologies specifically for the needs of persons with a disability (e.g., voice-activated and Braille ATMs), extending issuance, and creating an affinity with Visa’s global network of financial institution clients, Visa provides this global community with greater access and choice.

 

Otto Bock Health Care
Otto Bock is a Worldwide Partner of the Paralympic Movement until the end of 2012, in the product categories 'Therapeutical Medical Devices' and 'Rehabilitation and Mobility Healthcare Products'.

Otto Bock is the leading global supplier in prosthetics and rehabilitation and has been supporting the Paralympic Movement and its athletes, both with its products and its free services, at events for years. Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games, Otto Bock has also brought their service centre to several major competitions outside the Paralympic Games, for example, the IPC Athletics World and European Championships.

For more information about Otto Bock, please visit the official website at www.ottobock.de.

 

Samsung
Samsung is a Worldwide Partner of the IPC in the category 'Mobile Telecommunications'. The partnership was launched on the eve of the Torino 2006 Paralympioc Winter Games, which Samsung supported as an official Games Partner for the first time ever.

This partnership represents an important extension of the involvement of Samsung with the Olympic Games. Through this partnership, Samsung will support the IPC's efforts to communicate the inspiration and excitement of Paralympic sport to a wider audience around the world.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is the world's third largest producer of mobile phones. For more information, please visit the Samsung website at www.samsung.com.

 

Atos Origin
At the beginning of 2008, the IPC signed an agreement with Atos Origin to become its Worldwide IT Partner. Under the agreement, Atos Origin will contribute to the development of the Paralympic Movement through the creation of a system, which is designed to manage the athletes’ data, including results, biographical and classification specific information. Following the previous agreement Atos Origin signed directly with the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (BOCOG), the agreement with the IPC enables Atos Origin to expand its Paralympic marketing rights worldwide.

Atos Origin has primary responsibility for Information Technology, relating to IT consulting, systems integration, operations management, information security and software applications development for the Olympic Games. The company has been the IT Partner for the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 Paralympic Games. It has started preparations for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games and the London 2012 Summer Games.

For more information, please visit the Atos Origin website at www.atosorigin.com.