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21 May 2025
Nima is launching a membership scheme for information and data management practitioners across the built and managed environments. Chartered status and CPD could be on the horizon.
Nima’s new membership scheme is intended to make the current volunteer-led, virtual organisation more resilient, to help it better support and represent information management practitioners, and to foster wider digital transformation across the sector.
By offering individual membership, nima aims to provide a ‘home’ for information management practitioners. It also aims to represent members’ opinions on relevant topical issues, supported by regular polls and discussion forums.
Membership will cost £35 a year and initial benefits will include:
- recognition as a nima supporter, via a membership badge (shareable in email signatures and LinkedIn profiles);
- opportunities to influence nima policy initiatives via member-only consultation polls;
- invitations to two member-only online events a year, where members will be consulted on topical issues relating to information management;
- members-only online discussion forums; and
- opportunities to influence nima event content and contribute to events.
The voice of information management
Nima vice-chair Fiona Moore explained: “First, we are incredibly grateful to our past and current patrons for their essential financial backing, to other supporters for providing their people’s time, energy and expertise to nima, and to our many volunteers, past and present. However, in addition to this essential support and in response to multiple requests, we want to establish a sustainable ‘home’ for information managers. I think this will also be attractive to other interested parties wishing to engage more efficiently with the information management community.
“Second, we want to become the key membership body concerned with data and information management in the built and managed environment. Our mailing list and social media contacts already cover thousands of individuals. Many of these actively engage with nima as it is directly relevant to their daily activities; we aim to complement other professional and trade associations by focusing on practitioners’ industry-specific needs for information management skills and knowledge.
“Third, nima aspires to become the ‘voice’ of the sector’s information managers. We will be consulting members on issues relating to information management: for example, developing nima’s positions on government consultations, advancing the UK BIM Framework, and developing other guidance.”
What next?
The membership scheme will be formally launched at nima’s next quarterly online forum, at 2pm on 22 May. Details are also available on the nima website, and the scheme will be promoted at Digital Construction Week.
Moore also revealed nima’s long-term ambitions: “Over time, we aspire to develop our membership offering over the coming years with a view to potentially becoming a chartered membership body representing information management practitioners in the built and managed environment.
“Depending on members’ needs (and we will be polling members’ opinions), activities may include developing a body of knowledge, a code of conduct, CPD activities, certification, and measurement of information management capabilities.”
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