AAU........................................................Addis Ababa
University
ADSL.................................... Asymmetrical Digital Subsciber
Line
AMD ................................................... Advanced Micro
Devices
ANC.................................................... African National
Congress
API............................................ Application Programming
Interface
AR................................................................ Action
Research
BIND .......................................... Berkley Interned Naming
Daemon
BSDI............................................ Berkley Software Design
Incorporated
BSD .................................................... Berkley Software
Distribution
BTL....................................................... Bell Telephone
Laboratories
CARD....................... Collaborative Analysis of Requirements and
Design
CDC..................................... Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
CITCC ............. China International Telecommunication Construction
Corporation
CI ........................................................... Community
Informatics
CMS............................................... Content Management
System
CMU....................................................Carnegie-Mellon
University
COM ................................................. Component Object
Model
CUD ............................................. Coalition for Unity and
Democracy
DARPA .......................... US Defence Advanced Research Project
Agency
DBMS ............................................ Database Management
System
DECUS ........................................................ DEC User
Group
DHIS......................................... District Health Information
Software
DMS............................................. Distributed Multimedia
Systems
DPC..................................... Decease Prevention and Control
department
EASSy..................................... East African Submarine Cable
System
EDS ....................................................... Essential Data
Set
EJB ....................................................... Enterprise Java
Beans
EPLF......................................... Eritrean People’s Liberation
Front
EPRDF..................... Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic
Front
ETC.......................................Ethiopian Telecommunications
Corporation
FLOSS.......................................... Free/Libre/Open Source
Software
FOSSFA.................. Free and Open Source Software Foundation for
Africa
FSF.........................................................Free Software
Foundation
FWA.......................................................Fixed Wireless
Access
GCC......................................................GNU Compiler
Collection
GDB................................................................GNU
Debugger
GE............................................................... General
Electrics
GFF ....................................................... Ge’ez Frontier
Foundation
GIS............................................ Geographical Information
System
GPL................................................. GNU General Public
License
GUI ...................................................... Graphical User
Interface
HDI................................................Human Development
Index
HISP-ET.......................... Health Information System Program in
Ethiopia
HISP ........................................ Health Information Systems
Programme
HIS...................................................Health Information
System
HMIS .................................. Health Management Information
Systems
IANA......................................... Internet Assigned Number
Authority
ICD.................................... The International Classification of
Deceases
ICT..................................... Information and Communication
Technology
II ............................................................ Information
Infrastructure
IM ................................................................ Instant
Messaging
INF5750 ........................................... Open Source Software
development
IoC .......................................................... Inversion of
Control
IPC..........................................................inter process
communication
IRC........................................................ Internet Relay
Chat
ISO........................................ International Organization for
Standardization
ISP....................................................... Internet Service
Providers
IS............................................................ Information
Systems
ITS ........................................... Incompatible Time-sharing
System
J2EE .................................................... Java 2 Enterprise
Edition
JPF .......................................................... Java Plug-in
Framework
LGPL .............................................. Lesser General Public
License
LIR ........................................................ Local Internet
Registry
LKM .................................................... Loadable Kernel
Modules
LUG.......................................................... Linux User
Group
MIT ........................................... Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
NCP.................................................... Network Control
Program
NDA.................................................... None Disclosure
Agreements
NEPAD.................................The New Partnership for Africa’s
Development
Net/1 ................................................ Networking Release
1
Net/2 ................................................ Networking Release
2
NGO................................................. Non-Governmental
Organisation
NIR .................................................... National Internet
Registry
NJMF ............................... Norwegian Iron and Metal Workers’
Union
NLM..................................................... Norsk Luthersk
Misjonssamband
NORAD............................ Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation
OI.........................................................Organisational
Informatics
OLPC.................................................... One Laptop Per
Child
OOP ..................................................... Object Oriented
Programming
OSI-stack.................................................. Open Systems
Interconnection
OSI ......................................................... Open Source
Initiative
OS............................................................. Operating
System
P2P.......................................................... Peer-to-Peer
PARC................................................. Palo Alto Research
Center
PAR ................................................. Participatory Action
Research
PDA..................................................... Personal Digital
Assistant
PD.......................................................... Participatory
Design
PICTIVEPlastic Interface for Collaborative Technology Initiatives through Video
Exploration
RAD .................................................. Rapid Application
Development
RDP....................................Reconstruction and Development
Program
RIR.....................................................Regional Internet
Registry
SAIL ........................ Standford University’s Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory
ST.......................................................... Structuration
Theory
TCO.........................................................Total Cost of
Ownership
TED...................................... Technology, Entertainment and
Design
TPLF........................................ Tigrayan Peoples’ Liberation
Front
TRIPS ...... Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights
UEDF ...................................... United Ethiopian Democratic
Forces
UiO.........................................................University of
Oslo
UNMEE ......................... United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and
Eritrea
USL......................................................... Unix System
Laboratories
UUCP.................................................Unix to Unix Copy
Program
VBA...................................................... Visual Basic for
Applications
VCI .................................................. Virtual Community
Informatics
WAN.......................................................... Wide Area
Network
WPE....................................................Workers’ Party of
Ethiopia
WSIS.................................. World Summit on the Information
Society
WTO........................................................ World Trade
Organisation
WWW ....................................................... World Wide
Web