Terminology

 

DACST

Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology.  

Developing World Pilot Projects

South African proposals to augment the G7 Information Society pilot projects. Five projects are: Centres of Excellence, Expertise & Resources; IT National Qualifications Framework, Multi-media Archive for Vernacular Culture; Multi-Purpose Community Centres; and Open & Efficient Government,  

DPTB

Department of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting.  

GII

See NII and Information Highway.  

Green Paper

A government discussion paper to initiate the process of policy making, a green paper is followed by a white paper.  

ICT

Information and Telecommunications Technologies.  

Information Community

The South African view of the information society.  

Information Highway

The US view of the information society.  

Information Society

The European view of the information highway.  

Information Society Pilot Projects --- ISPPs

Projects to advance the GII in a number of concrete application areas such as: cross- cultural education and training, cultural preservation, environment and natural resources management, emergency management, health-care, government, and SMMEs  

ISAD

Information Society and Development.  

IT

Information Technology.  

NII & GII

National / Global Information Infrastructure: what is needed to realize the information highway.  

NITF

National Information Technology Forum [9]  

NTF

Nation Telecommunications Forum.  

Open & transparent consultation

Consulting widely but with very tight deadlines that prevent effective participation by those not in the in crowd. These impossible deadlines for others may be a conspiracy but more probably result from the usual slipping of internal deadlines.  

SME

Small and Medium Enterprises.  

SMME

Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise (South African version of SME).  

Stakeholders

Categories of interested parties, the NITF recognizes five stakeholder groups in IT: Government, Labour, Civil Society, Academia, and Private Sector.  

White Paper

A government policy paper to set out positions for discussion as a precursor to producing legislation.