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
Bab al Bahrain Souq Map released
Jul 21, 2011
European Day of Languages
Sep 24, 2010
Franz Huber speaks at the European Day of Languages
Read more...German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Bahrain
May 27, 2010
HRH Premier and Merkel Hold Official Talks
Recent events
Professional Motorsport Circuit Forum
Nov 16, 2010
Women's Football Cup ARABIA 2010
Oct 18, 2010
Middle East Spatial Technology Conference & Exhibition 2009
Dec 6, 2009
LIS Local Intelligence Systems
The term Local Intelligence or Information System (LIS) has emerged recently, and is synonymous with Community Information System or Data Observatory.
The primary application for LIS is to provide a place-focused evidence base that is easily accessible to a wide range of users including data experts, managers, policy makers, frontline staff and citizens. LIS provide a wide range of statistics and reports allowing users to review the current evidence base and build a picture of localities and neighbourhoods for their area of interest.
LIS are commonly used by public sector partnerships or public private sector partnerships coming together to provide joined-up services for a common area.
The ability to have a common evidence base and a platform to share sensitive and nonsensitive data is critical in this situation. LIS enables partners to publish a wide range of indicators in the form of defined outputs which combine locally and nationally available data into more meaningful intelligence aimed at specific user groups.
LIS are a niche form of information system – indeed they can be categorised as Business intelligence tools designed primarily to support geographic reporting. They also overlap with some capabilities of Geographic Information Systems although their primary function is the reporting of statistical data rather than the analysis of geospatial data. LIS also
offer some common Knowledge and Asset Management type functionality for storage and retrieval of unstructured data such as documents. They deliver functionality to load, store, analyse and present statistical data that has a strong geographic reference. In most cases the data is structured as indicators and is linked to discrete geographic areas, for example population figures for regions combined with health data or other indicators. The ability to present this data using data visualisation tools like charts and maps is a core feature of LIS systems.
The primary application for LIS is to provide a place-focused evidence base that is easily accessible to a wide range of users including data experts, managers, policy makers, front-line staff and citizens. LIS provide a wide range of statistics and reports allowing users to review the current evidence base and build a picture of localities and neighbourhoods for their area of interest. LIS are commonly used by public sector and/or private sector partnerships coming together to provide joined-up services for a common area. The ability to have a common evidence base and a platform to share sensitive and nonsensitive data is critical in this situation. LIS enables partners to publish a wide range of indicators in the form of defined outputs which combine locally and nationally available data into more meaningful intelligence aimed at specific user groups.
ICON and Kartographie Huber can project manage the transition of your data to a full featured GIS or LIS.