ICA

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Contents 1 Business 2 Language 3 Locations 4 Museums 5 Organizations 6 Standards and regulations 7 Science, technology, and medicine

ICA may refer to:

[edit] Business

• ICA AB - a Swedish corporate group in the food retail business.
• ICA AG - German camera manufacturer that merged into Zeiss Ikon in 1926.
• Insulation Council of Australia - an industry trade group
• International Collectors Associates - a precious metals dealer

[edit] Language

• Ica language - a Magdalenic Chibchan language related to Ijca spoken in Colombia, South America.

[edit] Locations

• Ica - a city in Perú
• The Içá River also known as Putumayo River
• The Ica Province of Perú
• The Ica Region of Perú

[edit] Museums

• Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

[edit] Organizations

• Independent Charities of America - represents American charities and facilitate gifts to those charities from contributors.
• Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications - an international scientific organization. Based in Winnipeg, Canada.
• Institute of Cultural Affairs - international non-profit organisation
• Institute for Connectivity in the Americas - promotes and funds innovation in information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Helped organize CARDICIS.
• Intercontinental A - a kart racing class for top drivers aged 15 and up.
• International Clarinet Association
• Irish Cycling Association
• Intermuseum Conservation Association
• International Cartographic Association
• International Christian Academy, Côte d'Ivoire - an American boarding school in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire.
• International Congress of Actuaries
• International Co-operative Alliance - the worldwide umbrella body for co-operatives.
• International Communication Association
• International Contract Agency (fictional) - the organisation responsible for arranging hits for 47 in the Hitman series of games
• International Council on Archives – the professional organisation for the world archival community founded in 1948.
• Irish Citizens Army - an organisation which lasted up to 1916 to rid Ireland of British rule and protect workers.
• Irish Country-women's Association

[edit] Standards and regulations

• Individual Capital Assessment - The requirement for UK life insurance companies to follow the Individual Capital Adequacy Standards (ICAS) regime. Under ICAS a firm is required to undertake regular assessments of the amount and quality of capital which in its view is adequate for the size and nature of its business – their ICA.
• International Coffee Agreement - a United Nations pact establishing the International Coffee Organization, initially ratified in 1963.
• Interstate Commerce Act - United States legislation establishing the regulatory Interstate Commerce Commission

[edit] Science, technology, and medicine

• Independent Computing Architecture, a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems
• Indene Carboxylic Acid - Organic acids containing one carboxylic acid group and at least one indene dimer. Such acids are often products of photochemical reactions in photoresist.
• Independent component analysis (signal processing and statistical data analysis)
• ICa (card) - a smart card ticketing system for public transport in Kanazawa, Japan
• Internal carotid artery
• in genetics, the intercellular adhesion gene locus (ica)
• Islet cell antibodies test