Chapters

DAMA International and the Presidents' Council Chair are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 DAMA Chapters AWARDS. This time we had five categories to recognize DAMA Chapters:

• Value Added to Membership
• Inspiring other Chapters
• Collaboration with other Chapters
• Innovation
• Participation with DAMA-I and the Presidents' Council

All the Affiliated Chapters, and DAMA-I Board members were able to nominate Chapters based on finding a Chapter as outstanding during 2022 in one or several of these aspects.

This year's AWARD Committee was formed by:

• Cathy Nolan (DAMA-Board member - Chair)
• Eugene Desyatnik (Past PCC)
• Dawn Michels (Presidents' Council Chair)
• Marilu Lopez (Chapter Services VP)
• Efrain Daubront - (DAMA Venezuela - Caracas Forming Chapter)

Congratulations to the winners, as they are a great example to encourage all the DAMA Chapters to continue working towards developing our DATA Management community to work towards having a world with better data.

• Inspiration - DAMA Peru
• Innovation - DAMA Norway
• Collaboration - DAMA Calgary
• Value - DAMA Shanghai
• Participation - DAMA Minnesota

We are very grateful for all the important work these DAMA Chapters are doing. We'll continue recognizing the good work of the DAMA Chapters around the world.

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Los Angeles to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Dee Nelson and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

If you want to join this team, contact them at:

Https://www.linkedin.com/company/dama-los-angeles/

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management.

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Northern Virginia to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Omotayo Baba and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

If you want to join this team, contact them at:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/12773221

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management.

 Save the date! DAMA New York City is holding DAMA Day NYC on Thursday, June 15th, 2023. 

Data Literacy is a long journey that many organizations are taking and words like accountability, empowerment, data driven and self-service are "detours or stop signs" along the way. Attend and find out how to "Make Data an enterprise asset" by taking the journey of Data literacy together.

Visit http://dama-ny.com/meetinginfo.php for more information.

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Shenzhen to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Xibei Jia and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management. 

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Datin Ts. Habsah Bt Nordin and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

If you want to join this team, contact them at:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dama-malaysia-kuala-lumpur/

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management.

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Kenya - Nairobi to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Hartnel Ndungi and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

If you want to join this team, contact them at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/DAMA-KE-NBI/

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management.

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Jordan - Amman to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Nawaf Hassan Al Shdaifat and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

If you want to join this team, contact them at:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dama-jordan-amman

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management.

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Hangzhou to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Guangsheng Wang and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management. 

DAMA International welcomes DAMA China - Wuhan to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Yaoquing Duan and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management. 

DAMA International welcomes DAMA China - Chengdu to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Wanzhong Huan and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management. 

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Beijing to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Baowei Zheng and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management. 

DAMA International welcomes DAMA Austria - Vienna to the DAMA family. We congratulate the founding members' team led by Lukas Negrin and wish them success in becoming an Affiliated Chapter.

If you want to join this team, contact them at:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dama-austria-vienna/

Through new DAMA Chapters, we continue growing the largest community of Data Management professionals worldwide with our vision of being an essential resource to those who engage in Information and Data Management. 

Interest in creating new DAMA Chapters is increasing. The need to spread the word on the relevance of having a formal Data Management practice as a foundation of digital and data-centric transformation initiatives is evident. 

DAMA International celebrates the existence of a team led by Karim Elhelaly in Egypt, working towards creating a DAMA Chapter. DAMA Egypt - Cairo was approved on August 10th, 2022 as a Forming Chapter. If you want more information contact kelhelaly@ipmisr.com

We look forward to having the first DAMA Chapter in Egypt soon.

We continue finding interest in creating new DAMA Chapters around the World as awareness of the relevance of Data Management is growing.

DAMA International approved on August 10th a new Forming Chapter: DAMA Turkey Istanbul, led by Ipek Cebi. If you want more information, please contact  ipekcebi.cebi@gmail.com

We look forward to having the first DAMA Chapter in Turkey soon.