Third generation mobile
phones offering high bandwidth access from 2002
Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Loop. A type of DSL.
Business to Business.
Electronic transaction.
Business to Consumer.
Electronic transaction.
A measure of the amount
of electronic data that can be transmitted, either
down a telephone line or through an individual
radio channel. The broader the bandwidth, the
quicker the information can be transmitted.
British Educational
Communications and Technology Agency.
BFWA
Broadband Fixed Wireless
Access.
A class of transmission
system that allows large amounts of data to be
transferred at high speed. See bandwidth.
British Telecommunications
plc.
Broadband Wireless
Access.
Consumers' Association.
UK non-governmental organisation.
Common Agricultural
Policy.
European Organisation
for Nuclear Research.
Computer Emergency
Response Teams.
Critical National
Infrastructure.
Communications Service
Providers.
Computer and Software
Services Association.
Devolved Administrations
(Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly and
Scottish Executive).
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport (UK Government department).
Defence Electronic
Commerce Service. An MoD e-business hub.
Department of Employment
and Learning (Northern Ireland Government department).
Department of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (UK Government department).
Department for Education
and Skills (UK Government department).
Department of Health
(UK Government department).
Digital Subscriber
Loop. A technology that enables higher bandwidth
communications to be passed through conventional
telephone lines.
Department of Trade
and Industry (UK Government department).
Digital Television.
Television broadcasts using digital technology.
Far more efficient use of radio spectrum enables
a larger number of channels and supplementary
data services to be broadcast.
Digital Video Broadcasting.
Department of Work
and Pensions (UK Government department).
Electronic Data Interchange.
A series of industry standards for the exchange
mainly of process information between companies
in supply chains.
European Extra Judicial
Network.
Expenditure and Food
Survey.
Interoperability standard.
Ensures that Government services are able to interact
co-operatively.
Economist Intelligence
Unit.
Electronic Libraries
for Northern Ireland Project.
Electronic mail -
usually sent or received over the Internet.
Engineering Manufacturing
Training Association.
Pilot project putting
procurement systems into Government departments.
Engineering and Physical
Science Research.
European Regional
Development Fund.
Electronic Service
Delivery.
High level framework
within which to set the output of UK household,
business and Government benchmarking activities.
European Union.
A 'closed' network,
accessible only to certain organisations or individuals,
that operates using Internet technology.
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (UK Government department).
Foreign Direct Investment.
Federation of the
Electronics Industry.
Family Expenditure
Survey.
Telecommunications
using a cable, fibre or point-to-point radio link,
rather than mobile telephony.
Financial Services
Authority (UK Government agency regulating the
financial services sector).
Government to Business
transaction.
The group of seven
most highly industrialised nations.
Gross Domestic Product.
General Household
Survey.
Grid Network Team
(set up to support the e-Science project).
Authentication and
routing engine allowing Government departments
to communicate with each other.
Northern Ireland Government
Purchasing Agency.
Government Procurement
Card.
Goods Received Note.
Government Secure
Intranet. Private network connecting UK Government
departments and agencies.
Government Telecommunications
Contracts.
The process of gaining
access to private data or systems, without permission
from their owner, typically using the Internet.
Higher Education Funding
Council for England.
Highlands and Islands
Enterprise. Enterprise Network for delivery of
e-commerce assistance in Scotland.
Her Majesty's Customs
and Excise (UK Government department).
Her Majesty's Stationery
Office.
Her Majesty's Treasury
(UK Government department).
Home Office (UK Government
department).
Integrated Administration
and Control System.
Information Age Partnership:
a DTI initiative bringing together the main UK
industry players in ICT.
Information and Communications
Technology.
Improvement and Development
Agency.
interactive Digital
Television.
Institute of Electrical
Engineers.
Implementing Electronic
Government.
Institute of Management
Development.
The Internet
is an 'open' network allowing anyone to exchange
data - as opposed to a 'closed' system such as
an extranet.
Intellectual Property
Rights. The right to get a return from the products
of one's own ingenuity.
Inland Revenue (UK
Government department).
Integrated Services
Digital Network. A digital telephone service operating
over the normal fixed-link network, giving higher
bandwidth access.
Information Society
Initiative of the DTI.
Internet Service Provider.
A company providing access to the Internet for
individual and business users.
Internet Service Providers
Association.
Information Technology.
Independent Television
Commission (UK Government statutory body).
IT, Electronics and
Communication Skills.
Internet Watch Foundation.
Non-governmental UK organisation set up to monitor
illegal and fraudulent use of the Internet.
Knowledge Network.
Lord Chancellor's
Department (UK Government legal department).
Local Enterprise Companies.
Local Government Association.
Local Loop Unbundling.
Ensuring that the last part of a fixed-link telecommunications
network that connects to a subscriber's home or
business is made available to competing telecommunications
companies.
e-commerce over mobile
telecommunications networks.
Ministry of Defence
(UK Government department).
Market and Opinion
Research International.
Member of (UK) Parliament.
Low bandwidth communication
services, of the sort delivered over a normal
telephone line.
National Criminal
Intelligence Service (UK Government agency).
Non-departmental public
body.
National Endowment
for Science, Technology and the Arts.
National Health Service
(UK Government agency).
National Infrastructure
Security Co-ordination Centre. Centre of excellence
on broadband learning.
National Technical
Assistance Centre (governed part of the Home Office).
National Training
Organisation.
Organisation of Economic
Co-operation and Development.
Office of the e-Envoy.
Office of Communications.
Office of Fair Trading
(UK Government agency).
Office of Telecommunications
Regulation (UK Government statutory body).
Office of Government
Commerce (UK Government body).
The first smart card,
Internet-based, secure electronic tendering system.
Office of National
Statistics (part of HMT).
Partnership of councils,
local communities and the private sector.
Personal identification
number.
Performance and innovation
Unit. Unit of UK Government CabinetOffice.
Public Key Infrastructure.
A system that allows individuals and businesses
to use Public Key Cryptography.
Prime Minister. Leader
of UK Government.
Partial Private Circuits.
Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State.
Regulatory Impact
Unit. Unit of UK Government Cabinet Office.
Public relations.
Cabinet sub-committee
on Electronic Service Delivery.
Radiocommunications
Agency. UK Government agency responsible, amongst
other things, for issuing licences for exploitation
of the radio spectrum.
Regional Development
Agencies in UK.
Small Business Service.
Systeme Internationale Mobile. Standard for digital
mobile communication used in Europe.
Plastic cards containing computer chips that can
store data for identification or electronic cash
purposes.
Scottish Enterprise. Enterprise Network for delivery
of e-commerce assistance in Scotland.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.
Computer programs.
Unwanted 'junk' e-mail. Can be sent repeatedly,
in enormous quantities, at very little cost to
the sender and some cost to thereceiver.
Licences given to businesses to exploit internationally
agreed areas of the radio-frequency spectrum.
In the UK, licences are issued by the Radiocommunications
Agency (RA).
Successful Projects in an IT Environment project.
Technical Advisory Board.
The Buying Agency.
Telecommunications companies.
Communication using the telephone infrastructure
- either land-line or mobile.
Tailored Interactive Guidance on Employment Rights.
Selling products electronically - either business-to-business
(B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C).
Private sector organisation.
Approved Trust Service Provider (TSP).
Trust Service Provider.
University for Industry.
Support service to provide businesses with information
and advice on European Programme funding.
The Universal Mobile Telecommunication Service
is a standard for mobile telecommunications that
will offer high bandwidth access from 2002.
United Nations Conference on Trade.
Unified Incident Reporting and Alert Scheme (the
Government CERT).
Universal Resource Locator. The address of a website
(takes the form http://www.[name or organisation
or business].[com or co or gov or net].[country,
e.g. uk, au, etc.].
Software, usually originating in the Internet,
that infiltrates a PC, making something happen
that the owner would rather did not (e.g. loss
of data).
A 'closed' environment on the internet allowing
users access to a range of electronic traders
selected by the owner of the walled garden.
Wireless Application Protocol.
Welsh Development Agency.
Another name for the Internet.
A virtual location on the Internet that has been
developed by an individual, business or organisation
for the purpose of giving information, advertising
or selling its products. Accessed by using a URL.
Official UK Government document.
OECD Working Party on Indicators for the Information
Society.
EXtensible Mark-up Language.
The above Glossary
is sourced from the Office of the e-Envoy. See
www.e-envoy.gov.uk/ukonline/progress/anrep2001/13.htm
for more details.
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