International Interactive Communications Society (IICS) is a professional trade association for companies and individuals involved in interactive media. 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)now known as Media Communications Association – International (MCA-I) but the charter members (composed of equipment vendors, independent producers, training professionals and members of Apple's IIe computer group, Sony's SMC-70 computer & interactive laser disc groups and Pioneer's interactive Laserdisc 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, Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington DC and New York City.
| IICS Charter Members | ||
| Tom Wohlmut | Original IICS President | currently President WMS Media Inc., San Francisco |
| Debra Wohlmut | Original IICS Vice-President | Wohlmut Media Services |
| Vicki Vance | Original IICS Secretary/Communications Director | Sony and then went on to become Manager of Business Development, Apple Computer: New Media and Entertainment Group |
| Tom Anderson | Original IICS Treasurer/Membership Director | |
| Maria Mancini | Original IICS Program Committee | |
| John Ittelson | Original IICS Institutes and Workshops | Chico State University |
| Mark Williams | Original IICS Institutes and Workshops | San Mateo College |
| Richard Haukom | Original IICS Special Projects Director | Co-Founder Haukom Associates and now Senior Instructional Technologist at Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Kris Koster | Original IICS Computer Services | Sony |
| Patrick Ford | Original IICS Database System Operator | |
| Jana Rochon | Original IICS Original Journal Layout and Design | Television Associates and later President of Image Technics Inc. Irving, TX |
| David Hon | Honorary Board | |
| Steve Booth | Charter Member | Level Three Authoring Systems |
| Jerry Jackson | served on the Executive Board as International Vice President and co-founded the IICS Hollywood Special Interest Group | founding partner in Water's Edge Communications |
| Joe Roizen - | Charter Member | Telegen (American division of French Videotex company) |
| Debra Lieberman - | Charter Member | Institute for Communication Research |
| Brian Blum - | IICS President, 1992 | Blum Interactive Media, consulting group in Jerusalem, Israel |
| Dale Rochon (aka: digital_dale) | Charter Member | Interactive media sales at Television Associates, later led the sales and marketing efforts at two computer/video convergence manufactures and then contributed to the launch of Verizon's FiOS TV, and Arbitron's PPM technology |
Pioneering IICS members continue to use the talent and skills in interactive communications developed during their tenure at IICS as interactivity and consumer engagement evolve in the multimedia, streaming media, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and mobile media industries. .