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Would you like to be one of CivicInfo BC's Information Partners or Sponsors?

The Information Partnership program helps CivicInfo BC keep its content current, relevant, and practical by encouraging the provision of material for inclusion on this web site from those who know best what they want to see here - you, the users. The program also supports one of our key goals, that of facilitating information sharing and knowledge management in the BC local government sector.

All local governments, provincial government ministries, and not-for-profit organizations and agencies in British Columbia are eligible to be Information Partners, and are invited to publish material via CivicInfo BC free of charge.

Other organizations and businesses that have an interest in publishing content for a BC local government sector audience using CivicInfo BC, may like to consider becoming CivicInfo BC content sponsors. Contact us for details.

News and events postings are published on CivicInfo BC free of charge to all Information Partners and Sponsors alike, so send them to us now!

What type of material is published by CivicInfo BC?

We are interested in making available on CivicInfo BC reports, RFPs, policies and procedures, benchmarking materials, advisories, briefs, or any other type of content you think would be useful to share with your peers in the local government sector.

What format should documents be in?

We will happily accept Word Processing files (Word or Word Perfect), Rich Text format (RTF), Text files, Portable Document Format (PDF), Spreadsheet files (Excel), and Database files (Access, Dbase), html files, comma delimited or tab delimited text files. If you are not sure if a file format is suitable, please contact help@civicinfo.bc.ca.

If your material is available only in paper form, please mail it to us. We will scan it, then convert it into suitable digital format(s).

What happens to the documents after they have been submitted?

Documents are reviewed by CivicInfo BC staff for general suitability and to ascertain their type and subject matter so they can be categorized to aid in the search process. In some cases, the document may be reproduced in another format (for example an MSWord document may be converted to html format and pdf format) for maximum flexibility of use. Document details are entered into the CivicInfo BC database, and the material is then publicly available from our web site. You will receive an email to let you know that the document has been sucessfully added to CivicInfo BC resources.

How does CivicInfo BC deal with copyright and other legal issues relating to the documents it includes in its database?

For full details you should read our Terms of Use.