ICIS’s Value Proposition to Local Government

By Barry Logan, ICIS General Manager

ICIS is proud to be a sponsor of GFOA and were very honoured to be named as “Sponsor of the Month” for February.

ICIS in its role as a non profit society operates to provide integrated spatial mapping data to its members. The members from Provincial Government ministries, Crown Corporations, Utilities and Local Governments provide their specific attributed cadastres and ICIS overlays all of the data and delivers it back in a viewable, variable and downloadable format. ICIS coordinates data sets across boundaries and jurisdictions that otherwise would remain disparate. That simply addresses but dramatically understates the technical part of the value proposition.

Another high value piece of the value proposition is the role of collaborator. ICIS provides a single administrative hub to join the many distinct and again disparate organizations and allow information to flow back and forth seamlessly. Without ICIS, organizations would have individual agreements with each other resulting in multiple duplications of effort, negotiation, associated work and costs.  ICIS works under the rules of a strong constitution with governance coming from an equally strong board of directors representing each of the three member segments (Province, Utility and Local government). As a result, cadastral needs can be addressed at one table for the betterment of the entire province versus jurisdiction at a time.

ICIS’s Civic Spatial Grant program completes the high value portion of the value proposition to Local Government. CivicSpatial grants are designed to encourage local government participation in the ICIS effort to build a province-wide cadastral fabric, by offsetting costs of data contributions and providing technical assistance.

For more details on ICIS, please refer to the ICIS website: http://www.icisociety.ca/.