ICA or ica may refer to:

Places

* Ica, Peru, a city in southern Peru **

Ica Province The Ica Province is the largest of five provinces of the Ica Region in Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Ica. Huacachina is a small town, oasis and resort in this region. Political division The Ica Province is divided into fou ...

, containing the city ***

Ica Region Ica (; qu, Ika) is a department and region of Peru. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Lima Region on the north; the Huancavelica and Ayacucho regions on the east; and the Arequipa Region on the south. Its capital is the city of Ic ...

, containing the province **

Ica River The Ica is a 220 kilometer long river in Peru which flows south from highlands in Huancavelica Region to the Pacific Ocean through Ica Region and passing the region's capital, the city of Ica. The river is normally dry during much of the year, ...

, passing through the city * Içá River, Brazil, also known as the Putumayo River, a tributary of the Amazon

Companies and organizations

Empresas ICA Empresas ICA is a construction company that was founded on 4 July 1947, by Mexican civil engineer Bernardo Quintana Arrioja. The company has built multiple landmarks, buildings, and facilities in Mexico, including the Estadio Azteca, the modern ...

, a Mexican construction company * ICA AB, a Swedish retail food business, formerly named ICA Ahold AB * Indoor Cricket Australia *

Informatics Corporation of America Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) is a privately held health information technology organization headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It serves integrated delivery systems (IDNs), health information exchanges (HIEs), individual hospitals ...

, a private health information technology company *

Innovative Communications Alliance The Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) was a telecommunications alliance between Microsoft and Nortel, created in July 2006, to co-develop, integrate, market, sell, and support unified communications products. The goal of the alliance is t ...

, between Microsoft and Nortel * Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, in Winnipeg, Canada *

Institute of Cultural Affairs International The Institute of Cultural Affairs International (ICA International) is a global network of national ICA organizations that carry out human development programming in their respective nations. ICA International is an international non-governmental ...

, an international non-profit organization * Insulation Council of Australia and New Zealand, an industry trade group * Interbank Card Association, now known as Mastercard * Interfaculty Committee Agraria, an association of over 60 biological science universities *

Intermuseum Conservation Association The Intermuseum Conservation Association ( doing business as ICA-Art Conservation or ICA) is the oldest non-profit art conservation center in the United States, currently located in Cleveland, OH. The ICA offers conservation and preservation tre ...

* , ''Internationale Camera Actiengesellschaft'', German camera maker that became Zeiss Ikon *

International Cartographic Association The International Cartographic Association (ICA) (french: Association Cartographique Internationale, ''ACI''), is an organization formed of national member organizations, to provide a forum for issues and techniques in cartography and geographic ...

* International Chiropractors Association *

International Clarinet Association The International Clarinet Association is the main international organization bringing together players of the clarinet. It is based in Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With ...

International Co-operative Alliance The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental co-operative federation or, more precisely, a co-operative union representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide. It was founded in 1895 to unite, represent an ...

, the worldwide umbrella body for co-operatives *

International Commission for Acoustics The purpose of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardisation. The ICA is a Scientific Associate ...

* International Communication Association * International Congress of Actuaries * International Congress of Americanists * International Cooperation Administration, a United States government agency concerned with international development * International Council on Archives * Irish Citizen Army, an organization which lasted up to 1916 to rid Ireland of British rule *

Irish Countrywomen's Association The Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA; ga, Bantracht na Tuaithe) is the largest women's organisation in Ireland, with over 15,000 members. Founded in 1910 as the Society of United Irishwomen, it exists to prove social and educational oppo ...

Islamic Cultural Association (Hong Kong) The Islamic Cultural Association (Hong Kong) (ICA; ) is an Islamic organisation in Hong Kong. It was formed in 2004 and became a government-approved charitable institution. Functions Objectives * Promote Islamic culture with Quran and Sunnah ...

Government and law

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is a law-enforcement command within the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the border control agency responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in Singapore. ICA w ...

, in Singapore *

Interconnect agreement An interconnect agreement is a business contract between telecommunications organizations for the purpose of interconnecting their networks and exchanging telecommunications traffic. Interconnect agreements are found both in the public switched tel ...

, between a utility and a customer *

International Coffee Agreement The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) is an international commodity agreement between coffee producing countries and consuming countries. First signed in 1962, it was originally aimed at maintaining exporting countries' quotas and keeping coff ...

, a UN pact establishing the International Coffee Organization * International Court of Arbitration *

Interstate Commerce Act The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower ...

, US legislation establishing the regulatory Interstate Commerce Commission *

Islamic Consultative Assembly The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The P ...

, the main legislative body of the Iranian government

Medicine

Internal carotid artery The internal carotid artery (Latin: arteria carotis interna) is an artery in the neck which supplies the anterior circulation of the brain. In human anatomy, the internal and external carotids arise from the common carotid arteries, where these b ...

* Intracranial aneurysm *

Islet cell antibodies Slowly evolving immune-mediated diabetes, or latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), is a form of diabetes that exhibits clinical features similar to both type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), and is sometimes referred to as type 1 ...

(ICA), test

Museums

* Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia, US *

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Since then it has gone through multiple na ...

, US *

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum in Philadelphia. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to e ...

, US *

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA c ...

, London, UK

Schools

Immaculate Conception Academy Immaculate Conception Academy, Dasmariñas (ICA Dasmariñas) is a private, nonsectarian educational institution in Dasmariñas, Philippines. It is owned and managed by the school board of directors. History Immaculate Conception Academy, In ...

, Philippines *

Instituto Coreano Argentino Instituto Coreano Argentino (ICA, "Argentina Korean School," ko, 아르헨티나한국학교) is a Korean international school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It serves the preschool and elementary school levels. In 2010 it had 29 teachers, 184 day ki ...

, Buenos Aires, Argentina * International Christian Academy, an American boarding school in Bouaké, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) * Irlam and Cadishead Academy, England * Islamitisch College Amsterdam, Netherlands *

Ivy Collegiate Academy Ivy Collegiate Academy () is a coeducational college preparatory day and boarding school enrolling students in grades 7-12. Ivy Collegiate Academy is located in Tanzi District, Taichung, Taiwan, and is accredited by the Western Association of Scho ...

, Taiwan

Sports

Intercontinental A KF2, is a kart racing class for top drivers aged 14 and up. This class used to be called Intercontinental A (ICA) and has changed since January 2007 when CIK-FIA decided to replace the 100 cc water-cooled two-stroke engines with 125 cc ...

, a kart racing class for top drivers aged 15 and up *

International Cycling Association The International Cycling Association (ICA) was the first international body for cycle racing. Founded by Henry Sturmey in 1892 to establish a common definition of amateurism and to organise world championships its role was taken over by the Union ...

, the first international body for cycle racing * Israel Start-Up Nation, a professional cycling

team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson (academic), Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interde ...

, until 2018 known as ''Israel Cycling Academy'', with ICA being the official team code used by the sport's governing body.

Technology

* Independent component analysis, in signal processing and statistical data analysis *

Independent Computing Architecture Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platfo ...

, a proprietary protocol for an application server system * Interbank Card Association Number, a four-digit number assigned by MasterCard to identify financial institutions * .ica, a

file type A file format is a Computer standard, standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary format, pr ...

Citrix Workspace Citrix Workspace (formerly Citrix Workspace Suite) is a digital workspace software platform developed by Citrix Systems. Launched in 2018, it is Citrix Systems' flagship product. Citrix Workspace is an information retrieval service where users c ...

Other uses

ICa (card) is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for public transport in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Kanazawa, Japan, introduced by Hokuriku Railroad (Hokutetsu), from December 1, 2004. The name is the portmanteau of ''Integrated Circuit, IC'' an ...

, a smart card ticketing system for public transport in Kanazawa, Japan *

Ica language Arhuaco, commonly known as Ikʉ, ( arh, Ikʉ, link=no) is an indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous American language of the Chibchan languages, Chibchan language family, spoken in South America by the Arhuaco people.Ignition Control Additive, in the 1960s, Shell Petroleum's term for gasoline octane rating booster * International Contract Agency, a

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