Statistical Terms Glossary

Alcatel’s Digital Bridge Initiative seeks to create win-win solutions based on innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in under-served, usually rural areas, in emerging countries. This is undertaken with the active involvement of local players, in order to create high added value services and applications designed to answer the needs of the local population.

Applying certain criteria to achieve fairness in allocating scarce resources such as water, food, medicine, and the like, depending on priorities

Processes and techniques that fall outside of the government judicial process.

The Analytical Database (ADB) is the database maintained by the OECD Secretariat and underlying the projections presented in the OECD Economic Outlook

The OECD’s Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development (R&D) database

Service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet.

An Interface between an application and a particular feature, function or resource of a platform.

Production programs run on a mid-sized computer that handle all application operations between browser-based computers and an organisation's back-end business applications or databases. The application server works as a translator, allowing, for example, a customer with a browser to search an online retailer's database for pricing information

A service (usually a business) that provides remote access to an application program across a network protocol, typically HTTP. A common example is a web site that other web sites use for accepting payment by credit card as part of their online ordering systems

The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys

A member of the Arab Jordan Investment Bank Group, is a specialized research, analysis and consulting company focused on the communications, media, technology and financial markets throughout the Arab World (MENA) region.

Scientific cooperative non-governmental Arab institution, believes in common Arab action that aims at finding a joint Arab strategy to face the challenges of the Age of Information.

In a summit in Kuwait 1966 the Arab League Council decided to establish an organization to improve and develop the Industry in general. The decision was approved by the Arab Economic Council in 1968. The headquarters was decided to be established in Cairo. In 1975, the Arab Ministries of Industries decided to free the organization from Arab League influence and was claimed as an independent organization. The organization's headquarters was moved from Cairo to Tunis temporarily from 1979 to 1980

Established in August 29, 1989, in Buffalo-New York City - USA, and registered officially in Amman on October 10, 1990 under the name of the “Arab Management Society”. Its vision is to To play a pioneering role in organizing, directing, motivating, and developing the capacities of Arab individuals and institutions in order to create an Arab Knowledge Community

Meetings, Conversations and Developing.

One of the Arab League organizations till 1989 when it was dissolved and replaced by a center attached to The Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization (AIDMO), called Center for Standardization and Metrology (CSM), with the head-quarter in Rabat

The aim of the Arab TeleMedicine Network (ATMN) was constructed to facilitate the exchange of medical data among the hospitals and medical centers in the Arab countries and other international centers and hospital. Providing online medical consultation for Arabic citizen and their doctors to advise , follow up or diagnose their medical state.

The Arabian Knowledge Economy Association (AKEA) is an international association targeting the Arab world, aiming to draw attention to such issues as education/learning, intellectual capital, innovation, entrepreneurship, research and technology

Main goal of this project is to demand the adoption of  the Arabic domain names as one of the Arab nations rights.

Using the Arabic language to express Internet domain names . a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices worldwide

Was formed under the auspices of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), and the guidance of Multilingual Internet Names ADNS through a Request For Comments (RFC) document(MINC); one of its main objectives was to help define standards for Consortium

Non-profit, non-governmental, international organization. It focuses on developing and promoting a truly multilingual Internet domain names and keywords, internationalization of Internet names standards and protocols, technical coordination and liaison with other international bodies. Coordinate the efforts of various national and regional initiatives, through an international forum and platform, which can be the unified voice for all Arabic speaking communities world wide, to ensure that the Arabic Based Languages script is one of the first languages to be enabled on the Internet domain names space.

It is an effort to put a description of Arabic software especially these available on the Internet. It also has references to other resources on the Internet concerning the Arabic language and the Arabic world.

Faithful support for a cause or political party or religion.

Description: An ACE is a string of characters resulting from a particular Algorithm for transforming multilingual character information into an ASCII-based alphanumeric form acceptable by the existing DNS. This means that an ACE encoded string must conform to the LDH restrictions for strings.

An organisation for ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain) registries in Asia Pacific region. APTLD was originally established in 1998, and in 2003 legally established in Malaysia