A Guidebook for Managing Telecentre Networks/Acronyms

Acronyms

AED	Academy for Educational Development
ATN	Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (Brazil’s Telecentre Information and Business Association)
BCTN	Burundi Community Telecentre Network
BoP	Bottom of the Pyramid
BTN	Bangladesh Telecentre Network
CAICC	Centro de Apoio à Informação e Comunicação Comunitária (Community Information Communication Support Centre)
CeC	Community eCenter
CRID	Rural Center of Digital Inclusion in Brazil
CTSP	Microsoft’s Community Technology Skills Program
FATEMA	Federation des Telecentres du Mali (Federation of Telecentres in Mali)
GCC	Global Communication Center
ICTA	Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka
ICT4D	Information and Communication for Development
IDRC	International Development Research Centre
IKB	Information and Knowledge Base
IRRI	International Rice Research Institute
ITU	International Telecommunications Union
KenTel	Kenya Network of Telecentres
KM	Knowledge Management
KS	Knowledge Sharing
M&E	Monitoring and Evaluation
MSN	Microsoft Network (Messenger)
NCC-ICT	National Computer Center of the Commission on ICT
NGO	Non-Government Organization
OVOP	One Village One Portal
PhilCeCNet	The Philippine Community eCenter Network, Inc.
RKB	Rice Knowledge Bank
RTN	Rwanda Telecentre Network
SDC	Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
SME	Small and Medium Enterprise
TASA	Telecentre Association of South Africa
TCN	Telecentre Network
TTN	Tanzania Telecentre Network
UEM	Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo)
USAID	United States Agency for International Development
KEC	Knowledge Exchange Conferences
tPCA	telecentre.org Philippine Community eCenter Academy
CeCNet	Community eCenter Network of the Philippines
TBI	Telecentres of Business and Information in Brazil
UNDP	United Nations Development Programme
UNV	United Nations Volunteers
WSIS	World Summit of the Information Society (Tunis, 2005)