About IAIDQ
International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) – Chartered in January 2004, IAIDQ is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral professional association whose purpose is to create a world-wide community of people who desire to reduce the high costs of low quality information and data by applying sound quality management principles to the processes that create, maintain and deliver data and information.
The attributes of IAIDQ:
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Member driven, lead by volunteers
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Vendor Neutral
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Dedicated to building a community of IQ/DQ Professionals focused on the needs of the “Information Consumer”
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Guided by recognized experts
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Thinking globally and acting locally
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Thinking locally and acting globally
IAIDQ also provides two excellent blogs: IQ Trainwrecks and Certified Information Quality Professional (CIQP)
IAIDQ is also celebrating its five year anniversary by hosting: IAIDQ Blog Carnival
LinkedIn Users: Join the LinkedIn Group for IAIDQ
Twitter Users: Follow IAIDQ on Twitter and Join the Twitter Group for IAIDQ
Facebook Users: Join the Facebook Group for IAIDQ
IAIDQ Membership
IAIDQ currently has over 390 members in 30 countries. The benefits of membership:
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Network to learn and share tips, techniques, and practical experiences with information and data quality
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Focused opportunities to learn critical skills for making quality information and data a reality, and advance the data quality profession and body of knowledge
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Understand the impact of poor quality data and information and how to help business leaders understand how those losses can be reduced
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Communities of Practice locally and in interest groups
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Discounts to other IQ-related professional events
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Members-only resources such as newsletter, IQ Forum, Webinars, etc.
If you would like to join IAIDQ, then please follow this link: IAIDQ Membership
If you are already a member and interested in volunteering, then please follow this link: IAIDQ Call for Volunteers
IAIDQ Certified Information Quality Professional (CIQP)
IAIDQ Certified Information Quality Professional (CIQP) certification is focused on the broad range of skills required to effectively manage and tackle the challenges of information quality. It will be an in-depth certification exam covering the Business and IT knowledge domains required to be an effective Information Quality practitioner. It is aimed at professionals working both on the Business side and on the IT side of organizations. IAIDQ CIQP is currently under development.