International Interactive Communications Society
International Interactive Communications Society (IICS) is a professional trade association for companies and individuals involved in interactive multimedia. This organization traces its early roots to the days of interactive laser disc production in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1980s. Originally the society was proposed as a special interest group of the International Television Association (ITVA) but the charter members (composed of equipment vendors, independent producers, training professionals and members of Sony's and Pioneer's interactive laser disc groups) decided to establish the society as an independent entity with different membership requirements for the new interactive and computer based communications.
In its heyday they had hundreds of members in the San Francisco Bay Area and thousands of members worldwide with chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington DC and New York City.
Many of the society’s charter members have gone on to become leaders in the multimedia and streaming media industries .
External links
- The original website was www.iics.org but now the closest website is the San Francisco chapter http://users.rcn.com/sfiics
- ITVA 1