About ICON
ICON builds bridges between countries, cultures and people: from the Gulf region and GCC states, to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and America.
The International Consortium for Management, Development and Consulting (ICON) is based in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
ICON draws on its Chief Executive Rashed Shaheen's many years of experience in international strategic planning, project management and consulting, bringing institutions and firms worldwide to the Gulf region, doing business and cooperating with the GCC public and private sector.
Recent news
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Bahrain
May 27, 2010
HRH Premier and Merkel Hold Official Talks
Putting the Kingdom on the Map
Apr 3, 2010
Mar 15, 2010
Qatar Holding, VW 17% and Porsche 10% shareholder, intensifies cooperation with Germany
Read more...Recent events
Middle East Spatial Technology Conference & Exhibition 2009
Dec 6, 2009
Bavarian Export Award
Nov 5, 2009
Maximise your Geographic Assets and win a large Audience
As professionals in spatial technology and geographic information the value of your information is clear to you. But do other entities of your organisation or government know the wealth of possibilities lying within your field?
Too often, the beauty of spatial data lies hidden on hard drives and on plotted charts in archive drawers.
School children and university students, tourists and visitors to your country, safety teams and security forces, real estate developers, retail and logistic business, web and mobile surfers, and many more can all benefit from your geographic products tailored to their needs.
Some of over 60 map vignette icons of Doha, Qatar, developed for The Centre for GIS - State of Qatar Urban Planning & Development Authority
ICON is short for International Consortium: Management, Development and Consulting. Based in Manama, Bahrain, ICON draws on it‘s chief executive Rashed A. Shaheen‘s many years of experience in international project management, bringing the best companies in their fields to the Gulf region today, to cooperate with the local professionals.
The ICON Geographic unit consists of Kartographie Huber from München, Germany, Hot Maps Media and more top European companies. Kartographie Huber is the leading European, possibly worldwide, maker of commissioned cartography, recently celebrated it‘s forty year anniversary, and won the Bavarian Export Award of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology in November 2009.
Hot Maps Media has been driving innovation of Internet technology since more than ten years. Their interactive online maps are based on real cartographic maps, which more than 100 million web visitors from all over the world so far have benefited from.
ICON supports spatial data specialists to convey to other government or private sector entities, as well as the public, the most benefit from their geoinformation.
Please visit us in Manama or Munich. Let‘s have a conversation to find some ideas together how ICON can help your organisation monetise it‘s assets, add value to them and put them to work for your whole country or community.