AAS

African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya

AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.

AHILA

Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa

AIM

African Index Medicus

APC

Association for Progressive Communications, United Kingdom

ARCT

African Regional Centre for Technology, Dakar, Senegal

BBS

Bulletin Board System

BITE

Bringing Internet To Ethiopia

BOSTID

Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

CABECA

Capacity Building for Electronic Communication in Africa

DTP

Desktop Publishing

EAIA

East Africa Internet Association

ELCI

Environmental Liaison Centre International, Nairobi, Kenya

ENDA

Environment and Development Action in the Third World

ESANET

Eastern and Southern Africa Networking Project

ESAP

Economic Structural Adjustment Program

FRD

Foundation for Research and Development, South Africa

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GII

Global Information Infrastructure

GnFido

GreenNet!Fidonet hub

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

IDRC

International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

IFS

International Foundation for Science, Sweden

IGC

Institute for Global Communications, United States

IIP

Intergovernmental Informatics Programme (UNESCO)

ILL

Inter-library Loan

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

LAN

Local Area Network

LEO

Low-earth Orbiting Satellite

MG

Megabyte

MHz

Megahertz

MIS

Management Information System

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

OIA

Office of International Affairs, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

NMR

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

NRC

National Research Council, Washington, D.C.

PABX

Private Area Branch Exchange (switchboard)

PADIS

Pan African Development Information System, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

PGI

General Information Programme (UNESCO)

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol Connection

PVO

Private-Voluntary Organization

RAM

Random-access Memory

SANGONET

Southern Africa Non-Governmental Network

SAREC

Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation with Developing Countries

SDI

Selective Dissemination of Information

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

STI

Scientific and Technological Information

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TDR

Tropical Disease Research

THF

The Health Foundation

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format; also .TIF

TWAS

Third World Academy of Science, Trieste, Italy

UNECA

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

USIA

United States Information Agency

VSAT

Very Small Aperture Terminal

WAIS

Wide Area Information Server

WHO

World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

WWW

Worldwide Web