Abbreviations

A
ABNF: Augmented Backus-Naur Formalism
ACA: Additional Central Assistance
ACE:ASCII compatible encoding
ADFE: Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalization
AI: Air Interface
AICTE: All India Coucil for Technical Education
APCERT: Asia Pacific CERT
APCICT: Asia Pacific Centre for ICT
API: Application Programming Interface
APNIC: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
APWG: Anti-Phishing Working Group
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASN: Autonomous System Number
ASTeC: Automation Systems Technology Centre
AS &FA: Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser
ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
ATCS: Area Tariff Control System
B
BAC: Bacterial Artificial Chromosome
BDB: Biometric Data Block
BESU: Bengal Engineering and Science University
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BIAB: Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology
BIPK: Basic Information Processing Kit
BHQ: Block Head Quarter
BPEL4WS: Business ProcessExecution Language for Web Services
BPO: Business Process Outsourcing
BPL: Broadband on power lines
BRAF: Bio-informatics Resource and Application facility
BTP: Biotechnology Park
C
CARE: Centre for Advanced Computing Research and Education
CAT: Cyber Appellate Tribunal
CATR: Compact Antenna Test Range
CBEFF: Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework
CCA: Controller of Certifying Authorities
C-DAC: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
CFR: Centre for Reliability
CC&BT: Convergence Communications & Broadband Technologies
CCP: Commonwealth Connects Programme
CCSM: Coupled Climate System Model
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
CEERI : Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute
CEG: Centre for e-Governance
CBDT: Central Board of Direct Taxes
CEWiT: Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology
CGCRI: Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
C-GRex: Chaos Game Representation explorer
CIMFR: Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research
CIS: Commonwealth of Independent States
C-MET: Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology
CMRI: Central Mining Research Institute
CMS: Content Management System
CPeMT: Central Project e-Mission Team
CPMT: Central Project Monitoring Team
CPS: Certification Practice Statement
CRL: Certificate Revocation List
CSC: Common Services Center
CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization
CSP: Content Service provider
CSR: Certificate Signing Request
CTT: Central Technical Team
CUG: Closed User Group
CIC: Community Information Centres
CVO: Chief Vigilance Officer
D
DANTE: Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Limited
DANN: Distributed Artificial Neural Network
DCO: Data Centre Operator
DEA: Department of Economic Affairs
DEPB: Duty Entitlement Pass Book
DIP: Database of interacting proteins
DOEACC: Department of Electronics Accredited Computer Course
DoS: Denial-of-service
DGF: Development Gateway Foundation
DHQ: District Head Quarter
DIT: Department of Information Technology
DNS: Domain Name System
DPR: Detailed Project Report
DSC: Digital Signature Certificate
DRP: Dispute Resolution Policy
DTA: Domestic Traffic Area
E
EA: Enterprise Architecture
e-AGRIEN : Electronics for Agriculture & Environment
EBR's: Extra-Budgetary Resources
EC: Empowered Committee
EDA: Electronic Design Automation
EHTP: Electronics Hardware Technology Park
EMD : Earnest Money Deposit
EMS: Enterprise Management System
EOU: Export Oriented Unit
EPGC: Export Promotion Capital Goods
EPID : Electronic Portal Imaging Device
ERDA: Electrical Research and Development Association
eSAFE: e-Governance Security Assurance Framework
ESC: Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council
ERNET: Education & Research in Computer Networking
ERTL: Electronics Regional Test Laboratory
ETDC: Electronics Test and Development Centre
EU : European Union
F
FBG : Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensors
FCS: Fluorescence Correlation Spectrometers
FDI: Foreign Direct Investment
FIPB: Foreign Investment Promotion Board
FIRST: Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
F/OSS: Free/Open Source Software
FMS: Facility Management Service
FRS: Functional Requirement Specification
G
G2B: Government-to-Business
G2C: Government-to-Citizen
G2E: Government-to-Employees
GAC: Governmental Advisory Committee
GAID: Global Alliance for ICT and Development
GCC: General Conditions of Contract
GIGW : Guidelines for Indian Government Websites
GNU : GNU Compiler Collection
GIA : Grant-in-Aid
GIST: Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology
GNCTD: Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi
GSP: Generalized System of Preferences
H
HLD: High Level Design
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
I
IA: Implementing Agency
IANA: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IASST: Institute of Advanced study in Science & Technology
ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICERT: Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
ICR: Intelligent Character Recognition
ICT: Information and Communication Technologies
ICTACT: ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu
IDN: Internationalized Domain Names
IEC: Information, Education and Communication
IEP: Instruction Enhancement Programme
IFA: Information For All
IGF: Internet Governance Forum
IIIT: International Institute of Information Technology
IISc: Indian Institute of Science
ILTP: Integrated Long Term Programme
IMSC : Inter Ministerial Standing Committee
INDRP: .IN Dispute Resolution Policy
INUP: Indian Nanoelectronics Users Programme
IP: Internet Protocol
IPR: Intellectual Prperty Rights
ISEA Project: INFORMATION SECURITY EDUCATION AND AWARENESS PROJECT
ISMS : Information Security Management System
IST: Information Society Technologies
ISTDC/WGs: Information Security Technology Devlopment Council/Working Groups
ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library
ITS: Intelligent Transport Systems
ITSM: Information Technology Services Management
ISCII: Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange
ITIR: Information Technology Investment Regions
J
JWG: Joint Working Group
K
KDC: Knowledge Data Centre
KPO: Knowledge Process Outsourcing
L
LAN: Local Area Network
LDAB: Layout Design Appellate Board
LIR: Local Internet Registry
LINAC: Linear Accelerator
LNT: Liquid Nitrogen Temperature
LTCC: Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic
M
MAI: Market Access Initiative
MB-OFDM: Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
MCA: Ministry of Corporate Affairs
MCCDMA: Multi Carrier Code Division Multiple Access
MDA: Market Development Assistant
MEMS: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
MGO: Magnesium Oxide coatings
MGS: Multiplier Grant Scheme
MLC: Multileaf Collimator
MMP: Mission Mode Project
MOSFET: Metal- Oxide- Semiconductor- Field -Effect-Transistor
MoU: Memorandum of Understanding
MSP: Managed Service Provider
N
NaMPET: National Mission of Power Electronics Technology
NASSCOM: National Association of Software and Service Companies
NBRI: National Botanical Research Institute
NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCMRWF : National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting Centre
NE: North East
NeGA: National e-Governance Agency
NeGP: National e-Governance Plan
NFE: Net Foreign Exchange
NISG: National Institute for Smart Government
NIR: National Internet Registry
NIC : National Informatics Centre
NICSI : National Informatics Centre Services Incorporation
NIIST: National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
NIT: National Institute of Technology
NIXI: National Internet Exchange of India
NKN: National Knowledge Network
NMCC: National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council
NPR: National Population Register
NRCFOSS: National Resource Centre for Free & Open Source Software
NSD: National Services Directory
O
OTC: Open Technology Centre
OCB: Overseas Corporate Bodies
OCR: Optical Character Recognition
OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode
O&M: Operation and Maintenance
ORF: Open Reading Frame
ORG & CCI: Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India
P
PAC: Process Advisory Committee
PDP : Plasma Display Panels
PIs: Participating Institutions
PKS: Polyketide Synthase
PMG: Project Management Group ()
PMSD: Project Management Service Division
PNG: Portable Network Graphics
PoC: Proof of Concept
PoP: Point of Presence
PRSG: Project Review and Steering Group
PSC: Programme Steering Committee
PSE: Public Sector Enterprise
Q
QAF: Quality Assurance Framework
QoS: Quality of Service
R
RASIP : Reconfigurable Application Specific Instruction-Set Processor
RCAI: The Root Certifying Authority of India
RCs: Resource Centers
RFD: Result Framework Document
RFID : Radio Frequency Identification
RFP: Request for Proposals
RFQ : Request For Qualification
RIELIT: Regional Institute of e-Learning and Information Technology
RIR: Regional Internet Registry
RoHS: Restriction of Hazardous Substances
ROTs: Receive Only Terminals
RPR: Resilient Packet Ring Technologies
S
SaaS: Software As A Service
SAMEER: Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engg. and Research
SAP: Service Access Providers
SASEC : South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation
SCA: Service Centre Agency
SCADM: Single Channel Add-Drop Multiplexer
SDA: State Designated Agency
SDR: Software-Defined Radios
SeMT: State e-Governance Mission Team
SEZ: Special Economic Zone
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SIA : State Implementing Agency
SIPS: Special Incentives Package Scheme
SITs: Sattelite Interactive Terminals
SOA: Service Oriented Architecture
SMDP : Special Manpower Development Programme
SPF: State Portal Framework
SRS: Software Requirement Specifications
SSDG: State Services Delivery Gateway
SSL: Secure Socket Layer
STQC Dte.: Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification Directorate
STT: State Technical Team
SDC: State Data Centre
SHQ: State Headquarter
SIA: State Implementing Agency
SIP-EIT: Support International Patent Protection in Electronics & IT
STPI: Software Technology Park of India
SVM: Support Vector Machine
SWAN: State Wide Area Network
T TCG: Trusted Computing Group
TKDL: Taditional Knowledge Digital Library
TPA: Third Party Audit
TCAD: Technology Computer-Aided Design
TIED: Technology Incubation and Development
TIFR: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
TMR: Tunnel Magnetoresistance
TSP: Technical Service Provider
TTS: Text to Speech
U
UIDAI: Unique Identification Authority of India
UGC: University Grants Commission
UNESCAP: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
UWB: Ultra Wide Band
V
VLE: Village Level Entrepreneur
VLSI: Very Large Scale Integration
VNIT: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
VOC: Volatile Organic Compounds
VR-MISS: Virtual Reality based Minimally Invasive Surgical Simulator
W
W3C: Worl Wide Web Consortium
WAN: Wide Area Network
WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization
WSIS: World Summit on Information Society
Z
ZF: Zinc Finger