Welcome to ICIS Think!

In the words of Alex Miller, founder and owner of ESRI Canada "What ICIS is doing and how it is doing it is unique in Canada and probably all of North America."

With that we have always recognized the challenges we face in trying to bring together vastly different organizations to achieve the common objective of building a single cadastral fabric for B.C. and sharing it and other spatial data. Different views, business requirements and interests come together at ICIS to form something bigger than the individual parts. The fact that we have been around for over five years speaks to the core commitment to our mission around the ICIS table.

The nature of such a collaborative effort has and continues to have its challenges. ICIS in many respects is a federation like Canada and thus experiences many of the challenges in maintaining a cooperative relationship that we are all familiar with on the national stage. Since an appreciation and understanding of different points of view is vital to any federation we feel it is important to have a venue where perspectives and views can be shared with the ICIS community.

To this end we have created ICIS Think - a blog for ICIS written by Pete Flagg, General Manager of ICIS and Steven Garner, former Board member and now Local Government Membership Coordinator for ICIS. The views expressed here are not the official views of the ICIS Board. They provide a perspective from the trenches with the goal to enlighten others about the challenges we face and, perhaps more importantly, provide a perspective on the relationships within ICIS. In the end, we trust that open and honest dialogue will provide the opportunity to improve relationships and thus ICIS itself.