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- ICT sector
- In New Zealand, the ICT sector is an agglomeration of the communications sector, including telecommunications providers, and the information technology sector, which ranges from small software development firms to multi-national hardware and software producers.
- Identity
- A set of attributes, which together match to a person.
- Infomediary
- An information intermediary is usually a public librarian or Citizens' Advice Bureaux volunteer who provides face-to-face access to and assistance with government information. Infomediaries help alleviate equity concerns that may arise in connection with e-government where inadequate levels of information literacy, lack of access to technology, matters of trust and confidence or personal preferences make face-to-face delivery preferable.
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- The use of electronic devices and applications to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, share and retrieve information.
- Information Sharing
- Information Sharing relates to the sharing of individual personal information between multiple agencies. This is often deemed to be information matching and usually requires enabling legislation in order for agencies to operate this process.
- Information Society
- A term for a society in which the creation, distribution and manipulation of information has become the most significant economic and cultural activity. An Information Society may be contrasted with societies in which the economic underpinning is primarily industrial or agrarian.
- Interactive
- Involving, enabling or encouraging user interactions — for example, with a web site.
- Intermediary
- see infomediary
- Internet
- A global computer network which carries email and the world wide web, among other things.
- Internet media types (IMT)
- Includes text, graphics, video, animation, and sound.
- Interoperability
- The ability of government organisations to share information and to integrate information and business processes by agreeing to use common standards.
- Intranet
- A network linking computers within an organisation, which is closed to outsiders. Its structure and user interface are based on those of the Internet, but an intranet is private. Intranets make internal communication and collaboration easier.
- IP
- The Internet Protocol is the precise way in which messages are passed through the Internet. All computers connected to the Internet use IP to communicate with eachother. IP is a network-layer protocol that contains addressing information and some control information that enables packets of data to be routed between hosts on the Internet.
- ISO
- International Standards Organisation.
- ISP - Internet Service Provider
- A company that provides Internet access to its customers.
- IT (information technology)
- The common term for the entire spectrum of technologies for information processing, including software, hardware, communications technologies and related services.
- Item-level Record
- Where each individual entity is treated as a resource in its own right, so it gets its own metadata record - in a collection of photos, each photograph would get its own metadata record - used where searchers are more likely to want to locate an individual item inside a collection and there is no index or other means of doing so.
