CIPAL is an inter-municipal ICT service with headoffices in

Geel Geel () is a city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which acquired city status in the 1980s. It comprises Central-Geel which is constituted of 4 old parishes a/o towns: Sint-Amand, Sint-Dimpna, Holven and Elsum. Further on around the cen ...

. Its name refers to the province of

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

and

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. The organisation is a governmental ICT-agency and inter-municipal association of municipalities, cities, towns, Social Welfare Centers, Provinces and other public authorities and it only provides services for public authorities.

History

CIPAL was founded as CIPA (E: Centre for Informatics of the Province Antwerp) by

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on 2 April 1979 as a subregional centre of informatics and CIPA started on 1 January 1980. On 2 April 1983, CIPAL was founded as a collaboration between the Antwerp CIPA and the Limburg LIRIC (Dutch: ''Limburgs Reken- en Informatiecentrum''). In 1987, the ICA (Dutch: ''Informatica Centrum Antwerpen'') was created, aimed at the City of

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

which would become ''Telepolis Antwerpen'' and now ''Digipolis''. In 1994, the headquarters of CIPAL moved to Geel. CIPAL nowadays services public authorities of the

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region of Belgium. On 22 April 2002 an agreement was signed for the development of a metropolitan library network for Antwerp.

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