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International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications The International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is an annual academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society.
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), is a premier Design & Design Automation conference, aimed at bridging the gap between and integration of, electronic design tools and processes, integrated circuit technologies, processes & manufacturing, to achieve design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading conference dealing with design for manufacturability and quality issues.
International System of Units The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name ) is the modern form of the metric system. It is the world's most widely used system of units, both in everyday commerce and in science.
International taxation International taxation is a subject of study that deals with international tax treaties and international aspects of domestic income tax laws. Multi-national corporations usually employ interrrrnnnational tax specialists to decrease their worldwide tax liabilities.
International telecommunications routes Telephone companies in different countries use a variety of international telecoms routes to send traffic to each other. These can be legal (or 'white') routes or other arrangements the industry calls grey routes, special carrier arrangements, settlement by-pass and other euphemisms.
International trade law International trade law includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries or between private companies across borders. Over the past twenty years, it has become one of the fastest growing areas of international law.
International trade of genetically modified foods The European Union and the United States have strong disagreements over the EU's regulation of genetically modified food. The US claims these regulations violate free trade agreements, the EU counter-position is that free trade is not truly free without informed consent.
International Taekwondo Alliance The International Taekwondo Alliance is a TaeKwonDo curriculum, certification / standards, and events services company. There are many ITA-licensed member schools that are authorized to teach ITA's curriculum, use ITA standards to obtain ITA certification of students’ rank and Instructor status, and to encourage their students attend ITA tournaments and camps.
International Taekwondo Federation The International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) was founded in 1966 by Major General Choi Hong Hi six years before his exile from South Korea in 1972 and seven years before the WTF. The ITF is basically an extension of the Oh Do Kwan of the late 1960's.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by two Americans, John Baur ("Ol' Chum Bucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy"), who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like pirates. For example, instead of "hello," an observer of this holiday would greet his mates with "Ahoy, me hearty!
International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that concerns itself with the issues of euthanasia, assisted suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, disability rights, pain control, and related bioethical issues. The executive director of the Task Force is lawyer Rita Marker, author of Deadly Compassion: The Death of Ann Humphry and the Truth About Euthanasia.
International Teaching Centre The International Teaching Centre (sometimes referred to as "the ITC") is a Bahá'à institution based in the Bahá'à World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Its duties are to stimulate and coordinate the Continental Board of Counselors and assist the Universal House of Justice in matters relating teaching and protection of the faith.
International Tech Park, Bangalore The International Tech Park Limited, Bangalore, or simply ITPL, is one of India's first world-class plug-and-play IT parks. As of year January 2006, ITPL was re-named as International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB).
International Technology Alliance The International Technology Alliance (ITA) is a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MoD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The research program is intended to run for 10 years.
International Technology Institute International Technology Institute (ITI) is a software technology company based out of Burke, Virginia, and currently takes part in developing technology exchange systems for government agencies, and the United Nations. They are the main financer and organizer of the GATES Summit held in Shanghai in 2006.
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors is a set of documents produced by a group of semiconductor industry experts. These experts are representative of the sponsoring organisations which include the Semiconductor Industry Associations of the US, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union (ITU; French: Union internationale des télécommunications, Spanish: Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones) is an international organization established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications. It was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris in May 17, 1865, and is today the world's oldest international organization Its main tasks include standardization], allocation of the [[radio spectrum, and organizing interconnection arrangements between different countries to allow international phone calls—in which regard it performs for telecommunications a similar function to what the UPU performs for postal services.
International Temperature Scale of 1990 The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is an equipment calibration standard for making measurements on the kelvin and Celsius temperature scales. ITS–90 is an approximation of the thermodynamic temperature scale that facilitates the comparability and compatibility of temperature measurements internationally.
International Tennis Hall of Fame The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It maintains a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world.
International Tennis Tour Internation Tennis Tour is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game about tennis and being an international superstar. There are practice, exhibition, and career mode where the player is given a generous amount of dollars and must compete on the world tennis circuit in order to gain more money.
International Terrestrial Reference System The International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) describes procedures for creating reference frames suitable for use with measurements on or near the Earth's surface. This is done in much the same way that a physical standard might be described as a set of procedures for creating a realization of that standard.
International Textbook Company The International Textbook Company was a book publisher located in Scranton, PA in the early 1900s. The company published a number of textbooks, most notably the International Library of Technology volumes that provided technical instruction on topics ranging from masonry to hydrostatics.
International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) is a global union federation. As of 2005, it has 217 member organizations in 110 countries, representing a combined membership of over 10 million workers.
International Thespian Society The International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across America, Canada, and abroad. The mission of ITS is to honor student excellence in the theatre arts.
International Thessaloniki Film Festival The International Thessaloniki Film Festival has become the Balkans' primary showcase for the work of new and emerging filmmakers, as well as the leading film festival in the region. The event features the International Section, a panorama of Greek films, the New Horizons program, the Balkan Survey, and numerous retrospectives and tributes to leading figures in the world of film.
International Third Position International Third Position (ITP) was a United Kingdom group formed by the Italian Roberto Fiore and as a continuation of the Political Soldier movement that originated in the Third Positionist British National Front in the early 1980s. With a small but dedicated membership the ITP preached a form of revolutionary nationalism that attacked capitalism and looked to the Strasser brothers and Distributist writers like Hilaire Belloc and G.
International Thylacine Specimen Database The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) was completed in April 2005 and is the culmination of a four year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph (where possible) all the known surviving specimen material held within museum, university and private collections of the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger).
International Tchaikovsky Competition The International Tchaikovsky Competition is one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in the world. Named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, it takes place in Moscow every four years since 1958.
International Tibet Independence Movement The International Tibet Independence Movement (ITIM) is a movement to establish historical Tibet, comprising the three traditional provinces of Amdo, Kham, and Ăś-Tsang as an independent kingdom. Support for the movement in the current Tibet Autonomous Region is illegal within the People's Republic of China and the movement is largely led by Tibetans in exile with the support of some individuals and organizations outside of Tibet.
International Time Bureau The Bureau International de l'Heure (BIH) or the International Time Bureau, seated at the Paris Observatory, was the international bureau responsible for combining different measurements of Universal Time. The bureau also played an important role in the research of time keeping.
International Time Capsule Society The International Time Capsule Society is an organization dedicated to tracking the world's time capsules to ensure that those that are created are not lost. Along with their database of time capsules, they have published a list of "most desired" time capsules that have been lost over the years, along with recommendations on how to build and seal a successful time capsule.
International Tracing Service The International Tracing Service is an organization dedicated to finding missing persons, typically lost to family and friends as a result of war or political unrest during World War II. It is headquartered in Bad Arolsen in Germany, operates under the legal authority of the Bonn Agreement, is under the administrative umbrella of the ICRC, and is funded by the government of Germany.
International Trade Canada The International Trade Canada (ITCan), legally the International Trade section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is the department in the government of Canada with responsibility for import/export and international trade policies.
International Trade Fair KOSOVA The First Edition of the Fair Kosova was held in Pristina from November 10 to November 14, 1999. Even prepared in very difficult conditions, with the staff in Tirana, Albania only four months after the Kosovo War, without phone, internet and flight connections, it was very successful.
International Trade Mart The International Trade Mart was chartered in 1945, first opened its doors in 1948, and in 1985, merged with International House to form the World Trade Center, a private, non-profit organization with a membership of 2,000 corporations and individuals dedicated to promoting international trade and the port of New Orleans.
International Trade Organization The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 proposed the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO) to establish rules and regulations for trade between countries. The ITO would have complemented the other two Bretton Woods Institutions: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is the world's largest trade union federation. It was formed on 1 November 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL).
International Trademark Association Headquartered in New York City, the International Trademark Association (INTA) was formed in 1878 by seventeen merchants and manufacturers to lobby for and protect the rights of trademark owners. It has 4,900 members.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of United States government regulations that control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. These regulations implement the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, and are described in Title 22 (Foreign Relations), Chapter I (Department of State), Subchapter M of the Code of Federal Regulations.
International Transport Workers' Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. As of 2005, it has over 600 member organizations in over 140 countries, representing a combined membership of over five million workers.
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, popularly known as the International Seed Treaty, is a comprehensive international agreement in harmony with Convention on Biological Diversity, which aims at guaranteeing food security through the conservation, exchange and sustainable use of the world's plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, as well as the fair and equitable benefit sharing arising from its use. It also recognises Farmers’ Rights: to freely access genetic resources, unrestricted by intellectual property rights; to be involved in relevant policy discussions and decision making; and to use, save, sell and exchange seeds, subject to national laws.
International Triathlon Union The International Triathlon Union, headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was formed in 1989, and organizes official world championship series races for the sport of triathlon (swim-bike-run races). It was formed in part to give the growing sport of triathlon an official organizing body and in part to advocate for the entry of triathlon into the Olympic games.
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. It was established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on December 10, 1982.
International Trombone Association The International Trombone Association (ITA) is a non-profit organisation of trombonists that is dedicated to supporting trombone-related activities. Founded in 1972, it has a membership of 4,500 members from 50 countries.
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 The International Tropical Timber Agreement (often abbreviated as Tropical Timber 83) is an agreement to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources.
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 also known as Tropical Timber 94 was drafted to ensure that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originated from sustainably managed sources and to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to reach this objective.
International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International The International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC) was a Trotskyist international tendency based around the Revolutionary Workers League in the United States.
International Trotskyist Opposition The International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO) was an international organisation founded in 1992 dedicated to reconstructing Trotsky's Fourth International. It was an oppositional tendency within the fragmented international Trotskyist movement that emerged from the crisis of Trotsky's Fourth International.
International Typeface Corporation The International Typeface Corporation (ITC), is a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company is one of the world's first foundries to have no history in metal cast types.
International Typographic Style The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and left justified/ragged-right text.
International Typographical Union The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a labor union founded on May 3, 1852, in the United States as the National Typographical Union. In its 1869 convention in Albany, New York, the union—having organized members in Canada—changed its name to the International Typographical Union.
International unit In pharmacology, the International unit (IU, alternatively abbreviated UI, from French unité internationale) is a unit of measurement for the amount of a substance, based on measured biological activity (or effect).
International university An International university can be defined as one which is funded by the governments of many countries and thereby is controlled by the officials from the government of different countries. Mostly these universities are formed by the regional associations.
International UFO Congress The International UFO Congress is an organization in Firestone, Colorado dedicated to the study of Unidentified Flying Objects. It was established in the 1990s and hosts an annual conference in Laughlin, Nevada.
International Ultraviolet Explorer International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was an astronomical observatory satellite primarily designed to take ultraviolet spectra. The satellite was a collaborative project between NASA, the UK Science Research Council and the European Space Agency (ESA).
International Union for Land Value Taxation The International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade – The International Georgist Union is a UN-accredited NGO that works "to stimulate in all countries a public opinion favourable to permanent peace and prosperity for all peoples, through the progressive removal of the basic economic causes of poverty and war, as these causes are demonstrated in the writings of Henry George". links==
International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences The International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences is a learned society, linked through the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies to UNESCO, and concerned with the study of prehistory and protohistory. In the words of its constitution,
International Union for Quaternary Research The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) was founded in 1928. It has members from a number of scientific disciplines who study the environmental changes that occurred during the glacial ages, the last 2.
International Union for Science Communicators International Union for Science Communicators (IUSC) mission is to bring into active co-operation and association, groups and individuals through the world (developed as well as developing regions) who are interested in promoting as a necessary part of culture, the dissemination of science amongst the public and in particular amongst children for furthering scientific temper into society and individuals and for eradication of fallacious resorts to irrational beliefs.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (commonly known as the World Conservation Union) is a nongovernmental organization (NGO). It serves as a conservation network for the governments of 82 states, including 111 government agencies, more than 800 other NGOs, and thousands of scientists and experts from around the world.
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants or UPOV (French: Union internationale pour la protection des obtentions végétales) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The current Secretary-General of UPOV is Kamil Idris.
International Union of Architects The International Union of Architects (Union internationale des Architectes, or UIA) is an international non-governmental organization that represents over a million architects in 113 countries. It is recognized by most United Nations agencies as the only association in its field, including UNESCO, UNCHS, ESOSOC, UNIDO, and the World Health Organization, as well as the WTO.
International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) was founded in 1959 as a section of the International Union of Physiological Sciences and became an independent non-governmental organization in 1966. It is a member of the International Council for Science and represents the interests of pharmacologists around the world.
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology. Formed in 1955 as the International Union of Biochemistry, the union had 72 member countries in 2005.
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (often known by the acronym BAC) is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, stone and marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tilesetters, terrazzo and mosaic workers, and pointers/cleaners/caulkers. The union is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress.
International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (IUEF) is an association of the leading exhibition centres and trade show related companies from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1991.
International Union of Food Science and Technology The International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) (pronounced "eye-you-fost") is an international non-governmental organization established in 1962 to devote the advancement of food science and technology. Its has as its members national food science and technology institutes and societies.
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association (IUF) is a global union federation of trade unions, founded in 1920. As of 2005, it has 336 member organisations in 120 countries, representing more than 12 million workers.
International Union of Forest Research Organizations The title of the organization is “International Union of Forest Research Organizations”, “Union Internationale des Instituts de Recherches Forestières”, “Internationaler Verband Forstlicher Forschungsanstalten”, “Unión Internacional de Institutos de Investigación Forestal”. Its short title is IUFRO.
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, or IUGG, is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the scientific study of the Earth and to the application of the knowledge gained to the needs of society that was established in 1919. Some areas within its scope are environmental preservation, reduction of the effects of natural hazards, and mineral resources.
International Union of Microbiological Societies The Internation Union of Microbiological Societies or IUMS, founded in 1927 as the International Society of Microbiology, is now one of 27 Scientific Unions (as of 2005) of the International Council of Science (ICSU).
International Union of Operating Engineers The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is a labor union within the AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers, who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1896, it currently represents roughly 400,000 workers in approximately 170 local unions and operates nearly 100 apprenticeship programs.
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades is an AFL-CIO affiliated union representing about 140,000 construction workers. It was one of three unions (SEIU and AFSCME were the others) to endorse Howard Dean during the 2004 Democratic primaries.
International Union of Public Transport The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) is a worldwide network covering all sorts of public transportation means, providers and players. It represents over 2700 urban, local, regional and national mobility actors from more than 90 countries on all continents.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (Pronounced as "eye-you-pack") is an international non-governmental organization established in 1919 devoted to the advancement of chemistry. It has as its members national chemistry societies.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature IUPAC nomenclature is a system of naming chemical compounds and of describing the science of chemistry in general. It is developed and kept up to date under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to the advancement of physics. It was established in 1922 and the first General Assembly was held in 1923 in Paris.
International Union of Radio Science The International Union of Radio Science (in French, L'Union radio-scientifique internationale - URSI) is one of 26 international scientific unions affiliated to the International Council for Science. Its objectives are the stimulation and coordination of research and development, and the dissemination of knowledge in radio science.
International Union of Socialist Youth The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) encompasses socialist, social democratic and Labour Party youth organizations from more than 100 states of the world. IUSY is a member of the Socialist International.
International Union of Soil Sciences The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) founded in 1924, is a Scientific Union member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), which it recognizes as the coordinating body for the international organization of science.
International University Bremen International University Bremen (Jacobs University Bremen as of Spring 2007) is an independent research university in Bremen, Germany. IUB was founded in 1999 by the collaboration of the government of the city-state of Bremen, the University of Bremen and Rice University of Houston, Texas.
International University for Science and Technology International University for Science and Technology (IUST; Arabic: الجامعة الدŮŮ„ŮŠŘ© الخاصة للعلŮŮ… ŮالتŮنŮŮ„Ůجيا‎) is a private university located in Oum El Qusur, thirty kilometers away from the center of Damascus, Syria.
International University in Geneva International University in Geneva (IUG) was founded in 1997 by Swiss business people. The University is incorporated as a Swiss private foundation not-for-profit and its sole campus is at the ICC, International Center Cointrin, Geneva.
International University in Germany The International University in Germany is located in Bruchsal, a town in the South of Germany. The university currently has two major schools: the school of Business Administration and the school of Information Technology, and a Department of Science and Liberal Arts.
International University of Monaco The International University of Monaco (IUM), formerly the University of Southern Europe, is an independent institution located in the Principality of Monaco specializing in business education. The university was founded in 1986 to bring high-quality management education to the region of southern France.
International University of Multimedia IUM, International University of Multimedia is a worldwide network of universities organised around an international structure based in Quebec, Canada. It was founded in March 2005 at Reunion island during the 6th Image meeting of the Indian ocean.
International University Sports Federation The Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU, English: International University Sports Federation), based in Brussels, Belgium coordinates the activities of over 100 national university sport federations and organizes the Winter and the Summer Universiades in uneven years and World University Championships in even years.
International University, Cambodia International University (IU) is a private higher education institution specializing in medical fields. Established in 2002, IU is recognized by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Ministry of Education Youth and Sports.
International version In video games, an international version is a relocalized version of a previously released title in its native territory that has gained additional features and contents in foreign releases. While the concept of "international versions" in North American, European, and Australian games is very rare (and virtually non-existent), it is quite popular in Japanese games, where games are often given additional features by the developers when they are exported to the Western market.
International Vale Tudo Championships International Vale Tudo Championships (IVC) was a mixed martial arts organization based in Brazil. While most of the MMA world was moving toward regulation and a set of stricter rules, the IVC was a notable exception that clung to the no holds barred fighting banner and a minimal ruleset.
International Vegetarian Union The International Vegetarian Union (IVU) was founded in 1908 when the first World Vegetarian Congress was held in Dresden, Germany. The idea for IVU came from the French Vegetarian Society, the first Congress was organised internationally by the British Society and locally by the Dresden Society with support from the Deutsche Vegetarier-Bund.
International waters The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands and seas, waters outside of national jurisdiction are also referred to as the High Seas or Mare liberum.
International weblogger's day International Weblogger's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated worldwide on June 14, bringing webloggers from around the world together to celebrate a year's worth of changing the way the Internet sees personal journalism.
International whale and dolphin project The International Whale and Dolphin Project is a non government whale and dolphin organisation based in Nottingham in the UK and Sydney Australia. The aim is to raise awareness for whales dolphins and their environment through educational, public awarenes projects and carefully selected campaigns.
International War Criminal International War Criminal is an EP by The Slackers first released in 2004. The five-song single, released by Thought Squad, continues the band's turn to more politically themed lyrics first heard on their 2003 release, Close My Eyes.
International Wargames Federation The International Wargames Federation, which was founded by the Derby Wargames Club and the South African Wargames Union in 1991. It considers itself as an international controlling body for historical miniatures games and promotes all wargames on a world-wide level.
International Water Management Institute IWMI, the International Water Management Institute is located in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, and is a Future Harvest Centre of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Research at the Institute is focused on improving water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature.
International Water Ski Federation International Water Ski Federation (IWSF) is the international regulatory body promoting water skiing and other water sports, setting the official rules of water skiing and official tournaments, coordinating the work of national federations.
International Webcasting Association The International Webcasting Association (IWA) is the largest non-profit organization dedicated to the development of webcasting and streaming media over the Internet and other networks. The IWA serves as a forum for the ideas, people and issues shaping the future of the webcasting industry.
International Weblogger's Day International Weblogger's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated worldwide on June 14, bringing webloggers from around the world together to celebrate a year's worth of changing the way the Internet sees personal journalism.
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), is a premier Design & Design Automation conference, aimed at bridging the gap between and integration of, electronic design tools and processes, integrated circuit technologies, processes & manufacturing, to achieve design quality. ISQED is the pioneer and leading conference dealing with design for manufacturability and quality issues.
International System of Units The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name ) is the modern form of the metric system. It is the world's most widely used system of units, both in everyday commerce and in science.
International taxation International taxation is a subject of study that deals with international tax treaties and international aspects of domestic income tax laws. Multi-national corporations usually employ interrrrnnnational tax specialists to decrease their worldwide tax liabilities.
International telecommunications routes Telephone companies in different countries use a variety of international telecoms routes to send traffic to each other. These can be legal (or 'white') routes or other arrangements the industry calls grey routes, special carrier arrangements, settlement by-pass and other euphemisms.
International trade law International trade law includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries or between private companies across borders. Over the past twenty years, it has become one of the fastest growing areas of international law.
International trade of genetically modified foods The European Union and the United States have strong disagreements over the EU's regulation of genetically modified food. The US claims these regulations violate free trade agreements, the EU counter-position is that free trade is not truly free without informed consent.
International Taekwondo Alliance The International Taekwondo Alliance is a TaeKwonDo curriculum, certification / standards, and events services company. There are many ITA-licensed member schools that are authorized to teach ITA's curriculum, use ITA standards to obtain ITA certification of students’ rank and Instructor status, and to encourage their students attend ITA tournaments and camps.
International Taekwondo Federation The International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) was founded in 1966 by Major General Choi Hong Hi six years before his exile from South Korea in 1972 and seven years before the WTF. The ITF is basically an extension of the Oh Do Kwan of the late 1960's.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by two Americans, John Baur ("Ol' Chum Bucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy"), who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like pirates. For example, instead of "hello," an observer of this holiday would greet his mates with "Ahoy, me hearty!
International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that concerns itself with the issues of euthanasia, assisted suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, disability rights, pain control, and related bioethical issues. The executive director of the Task Force is lawyer Rita Marker, author of Deadly Compassion: The Death of Ann Humphry and the Truth About Euthanasia.
International Teaching Centre The International Teaching Centre (sometimes referred to as "the ITC") is a Bahá'à institution based in the Bahá'à World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Its duties are to stimulate and coordinate the Continental Board of Counselors and assist the Universal House of Justice in matters relating teaching and protection of the faith.
International Tech Park, Bangalore The International Tech Park Limited, Bangalore, or simply ITPL, is one of India's first world-class plug-and-play IT parks. As of year January 2006, ITPL was re-named as International Tech Park, Bangalore (ITPB).
International Technology Alliance The International Technology Alliance (ITA) is a research program initiated by the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (MoD) and the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The research program is intended to run for 10 years.
International Technology Institute International Technology Institute (ITI) is a software technology company based out of Burke, Virginia, and currently takes part in developing technology exchange systems for government agencies, and the United Nations. They are the main financer and organizer of the GATES Summit held in Shanghai in 2006.
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors is a set of documents produced by a group of semiconductor industry experts. These experts are representative of the sponsoring organisations which include the Semiconductor Industry Associations of the US, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union (ITU; French: Union internationale des télécommunications, Spanish: Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones) is an international organization established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications. It was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris in May 17, 1865, and is today the world's oldest international organization Its main tasks include standardization], allocation of the [[radio spectrum, and organizing interconnection arrangements between different countries to allow international phone calls—in which regard it performs for telecommunications a similar function to what the UPU performs for postal services.
International Temperature Scale of 1990 The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is an equipment calibration standard for making measurements on the kelvin and Celsius temperature scales. ITS–90 is an approximation of the thermodynamic temperature scale that facilitates the comparability and compatibility of temperature measurements internationally.
International Tennis Hall of Fame The International Tennis Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit tennis museum at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It maintains a Hall of Fame for prominent personalities and players from the tennis world.
International Tennis Tour Internation Tennis Tour is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game about tennis and being an international superstar. There are practice, exhibition, and career mode where the player is given a generous amount of dollars and must compete on the world tennis circuit in order to gain more money.
International Terrestrial Reference System The International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) describes procedures for creating reference frames suitable for use with measurements on or near the Earth's surface. This is done in much the same way that a physical standard might be described as a set of procedures for creating a realization of that standard.
International Textbook Company The International Textbook Company was a book publisher located in Scranton, PA in the early 1900s. The company published a number of textbooks, most notably the International Library of Technology volumes that provided technical instruction on topics ranging from masonry to hydrostatics.
International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) is a global union federation. As of 2005, it has 217 member organizations in 110 countries, representing a combined membership of over 10 million workers.
International Thespian Society The International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across America, Canada, and abroad. The mission of ITS is to honor student excellence in the theatre arts.
International Thessaloniki Film Festival The International Thessaloniki Film Festival has become the Balkans' primary showcase for the work of new and emerging filmmakers, as well as the leading film festival in the region. The event features the International Section, a panorama of Greek films, the New Horizons program, the Balkan Survey, and numerous retrospectives and tributes to leading figures in the world of film.
International Third Position International Third Position (ITP) was a United Kingdom group formed by the Italian Roberto Fiore and as a continuation of the Political Soldier movement that originated in the Third Positionist British National Front in the early 1980s. With a small but dedicated membership the ITP preached a form of revolutionary nationalism that attacked capitalism and looked to the Strasser brothers and Distributist writers like Hilaire Belloc and G.
International Thylacine Specimen Database The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) was completed in April 2005 and is the culmination of a four year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph (where possible) all the known surviving specimen material held within museum, university and private collections of the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger).
International Tchaikovsky Competition The International Tchaikovsky Competition is one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in the world. Named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, it takes place in Moscow every four years since 1958.
International Tibet Independence Movement The International Tibet Independence Movement (ITIM) is a movement to establish historical Tibet, comprising the three traditional provinces of Amdo, Kham, and Ăś-Tsang as an independent kingdom. Support for the movement in the current Tibet Autonomous Region is illegal within the People's Republic of China and the movement is largely led by Tibetans in exile with the support of some individuals and organizations outside of Tibet.
International Time Bureau The Bureau International de l'Heure (BIH) or the International Time Bureau, seated at the Paris Observatory, was the international bureau responsible for combining different measurements of Universal Time. The bureau also played an important role in the research of time keeping.
International Time Capsule Society The International Time Capsule Society is an organization dedicated to tracking the world's time capsules to ensure that those that are created are not lost. Along with their database of time capsules, they have published a list of "most desired" time capsules that have been lost over the years, along with recommendations on how to build and seal a successful time capsule.
International Tracing Service The International Tracing Service is an organization dedicated to finding missing persons, typically lost to family and friends as a result of war or political unrest during World War II. It is headquartered in Bad Arolsen in Germany, operates under the legal authority of the Bonn Agreement, is under the administrative umbrella of the ICRC, and is funded by the government of Germany.
International Trade Canada The International Trade Canada (ITCan), legally the International Trade section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, is the department in the government of Canada with responsibility for import/export and international trade policies.
International Trade Fair KOSOVA The First Edition of the Fair Kosova was held in Pristina from November 10 to November 14, 1999. Even prepared in very difficult conditions, with the staff in Tirana, Albania only four months after the Kosovo War, without phone, internet and flight connections, it was very successful.
International Trade Mart The International Trade Mart was chartered in 1945, first opened its doors in 1948, and in 1985, merged with International House to form the World Trade Center, a private, non-profit organization with a membership of 2,000 corporations and individuals dedicated to promoting international trade and the port of New Orleans.
International Trade Organization The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 proposed the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO) to establish rules and regulations for trade between countries. The ITO would have complemented the other two Bretton Woods Institutions: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is the world's largest trade union federation. It was formed on 1 November 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL).
International Trademark Association Headquartered in New York City, the International Trademark Association (INTA) was formed in 1878 by seventeen merchants and manufacturers to lobby for and protect the rights of trademark owners. It has 4,900 members.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of United States government regulations that control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. These regulations implement the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act, and are described in Title 22 (Foreign Relations), Chapter I (Department of State), Subchapter M of the Code of Federal Regulations.
International Transport Workers' Federation The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is a global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. As of 2005, it has over 600 member organizations in over 140 countries, representing a combined membership of over five million workers.
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, popularly known as the International Seed Treaty, is a comprehensive international agreement in harmony with Convention on Biological Diversity, which aims at guaranteeing food security through the conservation, exchange and sustainable use of the world's plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, as well as the fair and equitable benefit sharing arising from its use. It also recognises Farmers’ Rights: to freely access genetic resources, unrestricted by intellectual property rights; to be involved in relevant policy discussions and decision making; and to use, save, sell and exchange seeds, subject to national laws.
International Triathlon Union The International Triathlon Union, headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was formed in 1989, and organizes official world championship series races for the sport of triathlon (swim-bike-run races). It was formed in part to give the growing sport of triathlon an official organizing body and in part to advocate for the entry of triathlon into the Olympic games.
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. It was established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on December 10, 1982.
International Trombone Association The International Trombone Association (ITA) is a non-profit organisation of trombonists that is dedicated to supporting trombone-related activities. Founded in 1972, it has a membership of 4,500 members from 50 countries.
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 The International Tropical Timber Agreement (often abbreviated as Tropical Timber 83) is an agreement to provide an effective framework for cooperation between tropical timber producers and consumers and to encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources.
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994 also known as Tropical Timber 94 was drafted to ensure that by the year 2000 exports of tropical timber originated from sustainably managed sources and to establish a fund to assist tropical timber producers in obtaining the resources necessary to reach this objective.
International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International The International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC) was a Trotskyist international tendency based around the Revolutionary Workers League in the United States.
International Trotskyist Opposition The International Trotskyist Opposition (ITO) was an international organisation founded in 1992 dedicated to reconstructing Trotsky's Fourth International. It was an oppositional tendency within the fragmented international Trotskyist movement that emerged from the crisis of Trotsky's Fourth International.
International Typeface Corporation The International Typeface Corporation (ITC), is a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company is one of the world's first foundries to have no history in metal cast types.
International Typographic Style The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and left justified/ragged-right text.
International Typographical Union The International Typographical Union (ITU) was a labor union founded on May 3, 1852, in the United States as the National Typographical Union. In its 1869 convention in Albany, New York, the union—having organized members in Canada—changed its name to the International Typographical Union.
International unit In pharmacology, the International unit (IU, alternatively abbreviated UI, from French unité internationale) is a unit of measurement for the amount of a substance, based on measured biological activity (or effect).
International university An International university can be defined as one which is funded by the governments of many countries and thereby is controlled by the officials from the government of different countries. Mostly these universities are formed by the regional associations.
International UFO Congress The International UFO Congress is an organization in Firestone, Colorado dedicated to the study of Unidentified Flying Objects. It was established in the 1990s and hosts an annual conference in Laughlin, Nevada.
International Ultraviolet Explorer International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was an astronomical observatory satellite primarily designed to take ultraviolet spectra. The satellite was a collaborative project between NASA, the UK Science Research Council and the European Space Agency (ESA).
International Union for Land Value Taxation The International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade – The International Georgist Union is a UN-accredited NGO that works "to stimulate in all countries a public opinion favourable to permanent peace and prosperity for all peoples, through the progressive removal of the basic economic causes of poverty and war, as these causes are demonstrated in the writings of Henry George". links==
International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences The International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences is a learned society, linked through the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies to UNESCO, and concerned with the study of prehistory and protohistory. In the words of its constitution,
International Union for Quaternary Research The International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) was founded in 1928. It has members from a number of scientific disciplines who study the environmental changes that occurred during the glacial ages, the last 2.
International Union for Science Communicators International Union for Science Communicators (IUSC) mission is to bring into active co-operation and association, groups and individuals through the world (developed as well as developing regions) who are interested in promoting as a necessary part of culture, the dissemination of science amongst the public and in particular amongst children for furthering scientific temper into society and individuals and for eradication of fallacious resorts to irrational beliefs.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (commonly known as the World Conservation Union) is a nongovernmental organization (NGO). It serves as a conservation network for the governments of 82 states, including 111 government agencies, more than 800 other NGOs, and thousands of scientists and experts from around the world.
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants or UPOV (French: Union internationale pour la protection des obtentions végétales) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The current Secretary-General of UPOV is Kamil Idris.
International Union of Architects The International Union of Architects (Union internationale des Architectes, or UIA) is an international non-governmental organization that represents over a million architects in 113 countries. It is recognized by most United Nations agencies as the only association in its field, including UNESCO, UNCHS, ESOSOC, UNIDO, and the World Health Organization, as well as the WTO.
International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) was founded in 1959 as a section of the International Union of Physiological Sciences and became an independent non-governmental organization in 1966. It is a member of the International Council for Science and represents the interests of pharmacologists around the world.
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology. Formed in 1955 as the International Union of Biochemistry, the union had 72 member countries in 2005.
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (often known by the acronym BAC) is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, stone and marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tilesetters, terrazzo and mosaic workers, and pointers/cleaners/caulkers. The union is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress.
International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (IUEF) is an association of the leading exhibition centres and trade show related companies from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1991.
International Union of Food Science and Technology The International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) (pronounced "eye-you-fost") is an international non-governmental organization established in 1962 to devote the advancement of food science and technology. Its has as its members national food science and technology institutes and societies.
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association (IUF) is a global union federation of trade unions, founded in 1920. As of 2005, it has 336 member organisations in 120 countries, representing more than 12 million workers.
International Union of Forest Research Organizations The title of the organization is “International Union of Forest Research Organizations”, “Union Internationale des Instituts de Recherches Forestières”, “Internationaler Verband Forstlicher Forschungsanstalten”, “Unión Internacional de Institutos de Investigación Forestal”. Its short title is IUFRO.
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, or IUGG, is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the scientific study of the Earth and to the application of the knowledge gained to the needs of society that was established in 1919. Some areas within its scope are environmental preservation, reduction of the effects of natural hazards, and mineral resources.
International Union of Microbiological Societies The Internation Union of Microbiological Societies or IUMS, founded in 1927 as the International Society of Microbiology, is now one of 27 Scientific Unions (as of 2005) of the International Council of Science (ICSU).
International Union of Operating Engineers The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is a labor union within the AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers, who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1896, it currently represents roughly 400,000 workers in approximately 170 local unions and operates nearly 100 apprenticeship programs.
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades is an AFL-CIO affiliated union representing about 140,000 construction workers. It was one of three unions (SEIU and AFSCME were the others) to endorse Howard Dean during the 2004 Democratic primaries.
International Union of Public Transport The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) is a worldwide network covering all sorts of public transportation means, providers and players. It represents over 2700 urban, local, regional and national mobility actors from more than 90 countries on all continents.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (Pronounced as "eye-you-pack") is an international non-governmental organization established in 1919 devoted to the advancement of chemistry. It has as its members national chemistry societies.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature IUPAC nomenclature is a system of naming chemical compounds and of describing the science of chemistry in general. It is developed and kept up to date under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to the advancement of physics. It was established in 1922 and the first General Assembly was held in 1923 in Paris.
International Union of Radio Science The International Union of Radio Science (in French, L'Union radio-scientifique internationale - URSI) is one of 26 international scientific unions affiliated to the International Council for Science. Its objectives are the stimulation and coordination of research and development, and the dissemination of knowledge in radio science.
International Union of Socialist Youth The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) encompasses socialist, social democratic and Labour Party youth organizations from more than 100 states of the world. IUSY is a member of the Socialist International.
International Union of Soil Sciences The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) founded in 1924, is a Scientific Union member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), which it recognizes as the coordinating body for the international organization of science.
International University Bremen International University Bremen (Jacobs University Bremen as of Spring 2007) is an independent research university in Bremen, Germany. IUB was founded in 1999 by the collaboration of the government of the city-state of Bremen, the University of Bremen and Rice University of Houston, Texas.
International University for Science and Technology International University for Science and Technology (IUST; Arabic: الجامعة الدŮŮ„ŮŠŘ© الخاصة للعلŮŮ… ŮالتŮنŮŮ„Ůجيا‎) is a private university located in Oum El Qusur, thirty kilometers away from the center of Damascus, Syria.
International University in Geneva International University in Geneva (IUG) was founded in 1997 by Swiss business people. The University is incorporated as a Swiss private foundation not-for-profit and its sole campus is at the ICC, International Center Cointrin, Geneva.
International University in Germany The International University in Germany is located in Bruchsal, a town in the South of Germany. The university currently has two major schools: the school of Business Administration and the school of Information Technology, and a Department of Science and Liberal Arts.
International University of Monaco The International University of Monaco (IUM), formerly the University of Southern Europe, is an independent institution located in the Principality of Monaco specializing in business education. The university was founded in 1986 to bring high-quality management education to the region of southern France.
International University of Multimedia IUM, International University of Multimedia is a worldwide network of universities organised around an international structure based in Quebec, Canada. It was founded in March 2005 at Reunion island during the 6th Image meeting of the Indian ocean.
International University Sports Federation The Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU, English: International University Sports Federation), based in Brussels, Belgium coordinates the activities of over 100 national university sport federations and organizes the Winter and the Summer Universiades in uneven years and World University Championships in even years.
International University, Cambodia International University (IU) is a private higher education institution specializing in medical fields. Established in 2002, IU is recognized by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Ministry of Education Youth and Sports.
International version In video games, an international version is a relocalized version of a previously released title in its native territory that has gained additional features and contents in foreign releases. While the concept of "international versions" in North American, European, and Australian games is very rare (and virtually non-existent), it is quite popular in Japanese games, where games are often given additional features by the developers when they are exported to the Western market.
International Vale Tudo Championships International Vale Tudo Championships (IVC) was a mixed martial arts organization based in Brazil. While most of the MMA world was moving toward regulation and a set of stricter rules, the IVC was a notable exception that clung to the no holds barred fighting banner and a minimal ruleset.
International Vegetarian Union The International Vegetarian Union (IVU) was founded in 1908 when the first World Vegetarian Congress was held in Dresden, Germany. The idea for IVU came from the French Vegetarian Society, the first Congress was organised internationally by the British Society and locally by the Dresden Society with support from the Deutsche Vegetarier-Bund.
International waters The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands and seas, waters outside of national jurisdiction are also referred to as the High Seas or Mare liberum.
International weblogger's day International Weblogger's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated worldwide on June 14, bringing webloggers from around the world together to celebrate a year's worth of changing the way the Internet sees personal journalism.
International whale and dolphin project The International Whale and Dolphin Project is a non government whale and dolphin organisation based in Nottingham in the UK and Sydney Australia. The aim is to raise awareness for whales dolphins and their environment through educational, public awarenes projects and carefully selected campaigns.
International War Criminal International War Criminal is an EP by The Slackers first released in 2004. The five-song single, released by Thought Squad, continues the band's turn to more politically themed lyrics first heard on their 2003 release, Close My Eyes.
International Wargames Federation The International Wargames Federation, which was founded by the Derby Wargames Club and the South African Wargames Union in 1991. It considers itself as an international controlling body for historical miniatures games and promotes all wargames on a world-wide level.
International Water Management Institute IWMI, the International Water Management Institute is located in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, and is a Future Harvest Centre of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Research at the Institute is focused on improving water and land resources management for food, livelihoods and nature.
International Water Ski Federation International Water Ski Federation (IWSF) is the international regulatory body promoting water skiing and other water sports, setting the official rules of water skiing and official tournaments, coordinating the work of national federations.
International Webcasting Association The International Webcasting Association (IWA) is the largest non-profit organization dedicated to the development of webcasting and streaming media over the Internet and other networks. The IWA serves as a forum for the ideas, people and issues shaping the future of the webcasting industry.
International Weblogger's Day International Weblogger's Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated worldwide on June 14, bringing webloggers from around the world together to celebrate a year's worth of changing the way the Internet sees personal journalism.
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