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Civitas Group to Represent e-Smart®
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Washington DC, March 2, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — e-Smart® Technologies, Inc. (OTC: ESMT) ("e-Smart®" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company will be represented by the Civitas Group, llc., a Washington, D.C. based strategic advisory and investment services firm, specializing in the homeland and national security markets.

The Civitas Management Team is comprised of prominent and highly respected individuals with many decades of experience in Washington across all branches of government. Charlie Black, Chairman of BKSH & Associates and senior Republican strategist and government relations adviser and Samuel R. Berger, Chairman of Stonebridge International LLC and former National Security Adviser, serve as Co-Chairmen of the firm. Robert Swindell serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Civitas. Mr. Swindell spent 17 years as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of U.S. technology banking.

"We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with the outstanding team at Civitas, which has a record that clearly demonstrates a strong commitment to its clients and an exceptional ability to bring together the right people with the right technology with the U.S. Government in the homeland and national security area," said Mary Grace, President and CEO of e-Smart®.

e-Smart® is the exclusive licensee in the U.S.A. and Asia of the Super Smart Card™, the Super Smart Passport™ and the Biometric Verification Security System™, also known as the "BVS2"™. The Company seeks to be a leading provider of high technology security systems that can be used to combat fraud and terrorism throughout its licensed territories. 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 available with no profiling or erosion of civil rights.

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