DEFINITIONS

GENERAL

TSI: Telecommunications Service Inquiry 

DCITA: Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

Facilitate:  To make easy, promote.  

Strategy: A plan. Planning or management.  

Internet: The worldwide collection of over a million hosts that can communicate with each other using a protocol called TCP/IP. 

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The protocols developed to support the Internet. 

Hardware: The physical machinery that makes up the computer system, such as the monitor, the keyboard and the mouse. 

Software: Computer programs or instructions to perform a specific task. Software may be operating systems or applications software such as a word-processing program. 

Content: What is contained in a house or book or mind, etc.  

Implement: To carry out or put into effect.  

Consultation: A meeting in order to seek information or advice from a person or a book, etc.  

Compromised: To make concessions at the expense of one¡¦s integrity or original plans.  

Relevance: Concerned with the matter being discussed.  

Subsidise: To give financial assistance. Given by one government or one individual to another.  

Sustainable: Able to be supported in an ongoing manner.  

Initiate: To begin or originate. To introduce a person to a new field, interest, etc.  

PC: or personal computer. A term used to describe a computer that is for personal use be it in the workplace or in your own home.

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REFERENCES

General

Telecommunications Action Plan for Remote Indigenous Communities (TAPRIC), May 2002

Report on the Strategic Study for Improving Telecommunications in Remote Indigenous Communities, 

Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA).

Hardware

World book millennium 2000


The world book multimedia encyclopedia


http://au.shopping.yahoo.com/browse.html


http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/

Computer History

25th Anniversary of ARPANET

            http://www.cbi.umn.edu/darpa/arpanet.htm  

ARPANET and Beyond

            http://clavin.music.uiuc.edu/sean/internet_history.html

How the Internet Came to Be

            http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/How_the_Internet_came_to_Be

Hobbe's Internet Timeline v1.3a

            http://www.amdahl.com/internet/events/timeline.html

Revolution in the U.S. Information Infrastructure

            http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/newpath/chap2.html

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