We are active participants of these organisations to optimise the value of their data and information assets

DAMA is an international not-for-profit association of data resource management professionals with chapters and Members-At-Large around the world. We have been associated with DAMA International for many years. Our Director, Alan Snow was a founder member of DAMA in the UK, and later founded DAMA Netherlands. See www.dama.org for more details.

A chapter of DAMA will be starting soon in South Africa. Please contact us for more details.

International Association for Information and Data Quality

The IAIDQ is a not-for profit, vendor-neutral professional society of people passionate about improving information and data quality.
Vision: By cultivating information excellence throughout the data and information lifecycle, the IAIDQ will help transform organizations and society, improving the quality of life everywhere.
Mission: The IAIDQ is advancing the quality of information and data around the world by building a community, supporting learning and sharing knowledge for the benefit of all information consumers.
Co-founders: The co-founders of this organization are two of the most respected and well-known thought and practice leaders in the field of Information and Data Quality:
- Larry P. English, of Information Impact International,and
- Tom Redman,of Navesink Consulting Group.

See www.iaidg.org for more details

InfoBlueprint is in the process of establishing an IAIDQ South African Community of Practice (CoP). This is a local forum for like minded individuals in the fields of Data Quality, Data Management, Data Integration, BI, Data Governance and Information Architecture to discuss, share and debate issues of importance relating to Information & Data Quality. Should you be interested please contact us.

PDC

A task group represented by South African manufacturers, distributors and retailers of the FMCG industry and the Consumer Goods Council of S.A., was formed in 1998 to look at ways to modernize and streamline the flow of product data throughout the supply chain. They unanimously agreed that a Product Data Catalogue (PDC) should be established in South Africa with the aim to have one set of accurate, standardised product data available for use in all trade transactions. Having accurate product data available would ultimately improve supply chain management and efficiency. CGCSA manages the development of the product data catalogue, referred to as the PDC.za, and currently hosts the PDC.za Central database. The PDC.za was designed to integrate into a company’s internal system and will link up with other global PDC’s in the future.

The PDC.za enables brand owners, manufacturers, suppliers, agents, wholesalers and importers to load new product data and manage or update existing product data, of a non-competitive nature on a central master database. Retailers can search for, subscribe to, and integrate this product information into their internal systems to enable trading with correct product data.

See www.pdcza.org for more details