Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee
Victorian Electronic Democracy, Final Report, May 2005

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Acronyms

3G
Third-Generation Mobile Telephony
AAP
Australian Associated Press
ABA
Australian Broadcasting Authority
ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABS
Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACA
Australian Communications Authority
ACCC
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
ACLU
American Civil Liberties Union
AEC
Australian Electoral Commission
AES
Australian Electoral Study
AGIMO
Australian Government Information Management Office
AIMIA
Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association
ANU
Australian National University
ARC
Australian Research Council
AusCERT
Australian Computer Emergency Response Team
AVC
Accessible Voting Centre
BCA
Blind Citizens Australia
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation
CCNR
Centre for Community Networking Research
CCTV
Closed-Circuit Television
CMS
Content Management System
CSS
Cascading Style Sheet
DDoS
Distributed Denial of Service
DET
Department of Education and Training
DHS
Department of Human Services
DNS
Domain Name Service
DoS
Denial of Service
DVC
Department for Victorian Communities
E1C
Everyone Counts
EAV
Electronic Assisted Voting
EDMS
Electronic Document Management System
ESA
Economics and Statistics Administration (USA)
eVACS
Electronic Voting and Counting System
FoI
Freedom of Information
HDTV
High Definition Television
HoC
House of Commons
HREOC
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
I@
Internet Access service website
IAP2
International Association for Public Participation
ICT
Information and Communication Technology
IIA
Internet Industry Association
IM
Instant Messaging
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6
ISP
Internet Service Provider
LAN
Local Area Network
LOTE
Language Other Than English
MAV
Municipal Association of Victoria
MC2
My Connected Community
MMV
Multimedia Victoria
MP
Member of Parliament
MSN
Microsoft Network
NILS
National Information and Library Service
NOIE
National Office for the Information Economy
NTIA
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (USA)[*]
OCIO
Office of the Chief Information Officer
ODR
Online Dispute Resolution
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OS
Operating System
OSS
Open Source Software
PC
Personal Computer
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant
PDF
Portable Document Format
PIAP
Public Internet Access Program
PIN
Personal Identification Number
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
PROV
Public Records Office Victoria
RRSDC
Rural and Regional Services and Development Committee
RSS
Really Simple Syndication
RTF
Rich Text Format
SARC
Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee
SBS
Special Broadcasting Service
SCAG
Standing Committee of Attorneys-General
SDTV
Standard Definition Television
SERVE
Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment
SLA
Statistical Local Area
SLV
State Library of Victoria
SMS
Short Messaging Service
SOE
Standard Operating Environment
SPRG
Security Peer Review Group
USB
Universal Serial Bus
VCAT
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
VEC
Victorian Electoral Commission
VERS
Victorian Electronic Records Strategy
VLGA
Victorian Local Governance Association
VOMA
Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs
VPN
Virtual Private Network
VPS
Victorian Public Service
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WAI
Web Accessibility Initiative
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wi-Fi
Wireless Fidelity
WMF
Website Management Framework
WWW
World Wide Web
XHTML
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML
Extensible Markup Language

Notes: [*] Now AGIMO (Australian Government Information Management Office).