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International Weightlifting Federation The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Budapest, is the international governing body for the sport of weightlifting. The IWF was founded in 1905, and currently has 167 member nations.
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the international governing body for the sport of wheelchair basketball. IWBF is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball world wide.
International Who's Who in Music The International Who's Who in Music is a publication of the International Biographical Centre located in Cambridge, England, containing a listing of those whose achievements in music were considered worthy of note at the time of publication. The biographies included are solicited from the subjects themselves and generally include present contact information as well as background and achievements.
International Wireless Care International Wireless Care is a division under Cingular Wireless that supports their customer bases international roaming and dialing questions and concerns. Based in Paramus, New Jersey, and Victoria, British Columbia the department takes inbound calls for customers who are about to travel overseas with their GSM wireless phones.
International Wolf Center The International Wolf Center is one of the world’s leading organizations dedicated to educating people about wolves. The organization is committed to advancing the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands, and the human role in their future.
International Women's Boxing Federation The IWBF (International Women's Boxing Federation) is, along with the WIBA, WIBF and others, one of the more recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in Women's boxing. The organization is based in Huntington, New York.
International Women's Media Foundation The International Women’s Media Foundation is a network of thousands of women journalists working internationally to elevate the status of women in the media. The IWMF has created groundbreaking programs to help women in the media develop practical solutions to the obstacles they face in their careers and lives.
International Women's Sports Federation The International Women's Sports Federation held an Olympic-style Games, in 1922, in Paris. Women athletes representing eight countries competed in 11 athletic events, as 30,000 spectators supported the protest against exclusion of women by the Amateur Athletics Federation.
International Women's Writing Guild The International Women's Writing Guild was founded in 1976 by Hannelore Hahn as a non-profit network to promote and encourage women writers. Started as a small support group, today the Guild is also an official non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council and has members worldwide.
International Workers Association The International Workers' Association (IWA) (Spanish: AIT - AsociaciĂłn Internacional de los Trabajadores, and in German: IAA-Internationale ArbeiterInnen Assoziation) is an international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labour unions from different countries. It was founded as the International Workingmen's Association in 1922, at a Berlin congress of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions.
International Workers League (Fourth International) The International Workers League (Fourth International) or IWLfi (Spanish: Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores (Cuarta Internacional) or LITci; Portuguese: Liga Internacional dos Trabalhadores - Quarta Internacional or LIT-QI) is a Morenist Trotskyist international organisation.
International Workers Order The International Workers Order (IWO), was a Communist-affiliated insurance and fraternal organization founded in 1930 following a split from the The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, a still-extant Jewish fraternal organization.its height, after World War II], the IWO had almost 200,000 members and provided low-cost [[health insurance|health and life insurance, medical and dental clinics, and supported foreign-language newspapers, cultural and educational activities.
International Workers Relief The International Workers Relief (also known as International Workers Assistance, International Workers Aid and, in German. as Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, IAH ) was a Communist International affiliate, which released proletarian films in the 1920s and early 1930s years in addition to providing social security benefits for workers.
International Workers' Committee The International Workers' Committee was a tiny Trotskyist international founded by the group of the same name in Canada and by several small parties called the Marxist Workers' Group around the world, in 1999. It is defunct.
International Workers' Unity (Fourth International) International Workers' Unity (Fourth International) (Spanish: Unidad Internacional de los Trabajadores (Cuarta Internacional)) is a Trotskyist international organisation. It has members in Latin America, Western Europe and the CIS, including Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores in Argentina, Corriente Socialista de los Trabajadores in Brazil, and Movimiento por el Socialismo in Portugal.
International Working People's Association The International Working People's Association is an international communist organization that intends to unite working class people from across the world. Membership is restricted to members of the working class.
International Working Union of Socialist Parties The International Working Union of Socialist Parties (also known as 2½ International or the Vienna International) was a political international for the co-operation of socialists. IWUSP was founded on February 27 1921 at a conference in Vienna, Austria by ten parties, including the USPD, SFIO, Independent Labour Party (Britain), Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Independent Socialist Party (Romania), and SPÖ.
International Workingmen's Association The International Workingmen's Association (IWA), sometimes called the First International, was an international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle. It was founded in 1864 in a workmen's meeting held in Saint Martin's Hall, London.
International Wrestling Revolution Group Grupo Internacional Revolucion (IWRG) is a Lucha Libre Professional wrestling promotion based in Naucalpan, Mexico. It is an independent group with its own championships and television show, and it shares talent with CMLL.
International Wrestling Syndicate International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) is a professional wrestling promotion based out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by "PCP Crazy F'N" Manny Elefethariou, who also sometimes wrestles for the promotion which was formerly known as the Internet Wrestling Syndicate.
International Wushu Federation The International Wushu Federation (IWUF) () is an organization established on 3 October 1990 to promote competitive wushu. Since 1991, the IWUF has held eight World Wushu Championships, and has also helped the around 100 federations under the IWUF (List of member federations External) all around the world to hold their own championships (e.
International XI women's cricket team The International XI women's cricket team was a team that took part in two Women's Cricket World Cups. They were essentially a "best of the rest" team, including players not selected by their own countries.
International Year of Astronomy Coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei in the 17th Century, 2009 has been declared the International Year of Astronomy. This global scheme, laid out by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), has also been endorsed by UNESCO - the UN body responsible for Educational, Scientific and Cultural matters.
International Year of Disabled Persons The year 1981 was proclaimed the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP) by the United Nations. It called for a plan of action with an emphasis on equalization of opportunities, rehabilitation and prevention of disabilities.
International Year of Forests Recognizing the integral role of forests in global sustainable development, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 61/193 on 20 December 2006 declaring the year 2011 as the International Year of Forests.
International Year of the Potato The International Year of the Potato (2008) has been declared by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/191, adopted 22 December 2005. It is one of many International observances declared for specific days, months and years.
International Yoga Federation The real birth of the International Federation of Yoga goes back to 1987, in Montevideo in Uruguay under the name of International Federation of Professsional Yoga Teacher . In 2001 change the name to the International Yoga Federation.
International Young Physicists' Tournament The International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT) is a competition among teams of secondary school students in their ability to solve complicated scientific problems, to present solutions to these problems and to defend them in scientific discussions called "Physics Fights".
International Youth Congress of Esperanto The International Youth Congress of Esperanto or Internacia Junulara Kongreso is the biggest annual meeting of young esperantists in the world and participants usually number around 300 but have been know to have more than 1000 esperanto-speakers from all over the world coming for the entire week. The congress takes place in a different country every year and is organised by the 'Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo', better known as TEJO, World Esperanto Youth Organisation, the youth wing of the UEA.
International Youth Leadership Conference International Youth Leadership Conference is a week-long forum on world politics, international relations and law for youth aged between 18 and 24. Hosted by Civic Concepts International, it claims "a strong emphasis on cross-cultural, international youth empowerment, and an open-minded exchange of different perspectives on global issues.
International Youth Year International Youth Year (IYY) was held in 1985, to focus attention on issues of concern to and relating to youth. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1985 by United Nations Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
International zone An international zone is a type of extraterritoriality governed by international law, or similar treaty between two or more nations. They can be found within international airports and can contain duty free shopping.
International Zetetic Challenge The International Zetetic Challenge (from Greek zêtêin, "to search") was an attempt to prove or disprove the existence of, or demonstrate events related to, the paranormal. It ran from 1987 until 2002 and offered a €200,000 prize to "any person who could prove any paranormal phenomenon.
Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung The Internationale Luft- und Raumfahrtausstellung (ILA) (International Aerospace Exhibition, ILA) is an international trade fair for the aerospace business in Berlin, Germany. It is the oldest aviation show in the world and ranks among the world's largest and most important aerospace exhibitions.
Internationale Medienhilfe The IMH-Internationale Medienhilfe (International Media Help) is a non-commercial working group and co-operative enterprise of intercultural and Jewish newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television broadcasters and news agencies located throughout the world, which have collectively agreed to provide mutual support and to collaborate on projects of mutual interest. Various private initiatives led to the founding of the organization in 1996.
Internationale Politik Internationale Politik is the journal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations). It provides authoritative publications on contemporary topics, its editor is Sabine Rosenbladt.
Internationale Schule Frankfurt Rhein-Main The International School of Frankfurt Rhein-Main (ISFRM or simply ISF) is a private school in Sindlingen, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is most notable for its strong focus on academic achievement through constant assessment.
Internationales BĂĽhler Bluegrass Festival The Internationale BĂĽhler Bluegrass Festival is a yearly bluegrass music festival that has taken place since 2003 in BĂĽhl (Baden), Germany. It is sucessor to the GĂĽglinger Bluegrass Festival, which last took place in 2001.
Internationalism (linguistics) In linguistics an internationalism is a loanword that occurs in several languages with the same or at least similar meaning and etymology. Pronunciation and orthography are similar so that the word is understandable between the different languages.
Internationalism (politics) Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation between nations for the benefit of all. Partisans of this movement, such as supporters of the World Federalist Movement, claim that nations should cooperate because their long-term mutual interests are of greater value than their individual short-term needs.
Internationalist Communist Organisation The Internationalist Communist Organisation (French: Organisation Communiste Internationaliste, OCI) was a Trotskyist political party in France. Its successor is the Internationalist Communist Current of the Workers Party.
Internationalist Communist Party The Internationalist Communist Party (French: Parti Communiste Internationaliste, PCI) was a Trotskyist political party in France. It was the French Section of the Fourth International from its foundation until the late 1960s.
Internationalist Review The Internationalist Review is an independent, non-profit e-journal founded on July 3 2006 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The IR wants to be in its own words "a reader-friendly guide to news sources from around the world".
Internationalist Workers' Left (Greece) The Internationalist Workers' Left (Greek: Διεθνιστική Εργατική Αριστερά, Diethnistiki Ergatiki Aristera, abbreviated ΔΕΑ or DEA) is a Trotskyist political organization in Greece, founded in 2001 as a split from the Socialist Workers' Party, the Greek section of the International Socialist Tendency. It is particularly active in the Greek Social Forum, and maintains a close connection with the International Socialist Organization in the United States.
Internationalization and localization Internationalization and localizationIn some regions outside of the United States, the spelling variants internationalisation and localisation are more common. are means of adapting products such as publications, hardware or software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures.
Internationalized Resource Identifier On the Internet, the Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) is a generalization of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which is in turn a generalization of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). While URIs are limited to a subset of the ASCII character set, IRIs may contain characters from the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646).
Internazionale Player Of The Year The Pirata d'oro (Golden Pirate) is the award given every year since 1986 by the Inter Club of Seveso (MI, Italy), and it is recognized as an "unofficial" prize for the Internazionale Player Of The Year.
Internet 1996 World Exposition The Internet 1996 World Exposition web site, distributed on 8 servers around the world in a "public park for the global village," received 5 million visitors from 130 countries. In-kind contributions from sponsors included the first DS3 over the Pacific Ocean and 2 terabytes of disk drives.
Internet access in the United States As of 2004, three out of four Americans have Internet access in the United States, with more than 50% of these being broadband connections. The following statistics are based on a March 18, 2004 press release from Nielsen//NetRatings, a company owned by the same parent company responsible for the Nielsen Ratings.
Internet activism Internet activism (also known as electronic advocacy, cyberactivism, and online organizing) is the use of communication technologies such as e-mail, web sites, and podcasts to enable faster communications by citizen movements and deliver a message to a large audience. These Internet technologies are used for cause-related fundraising, lobbying, volunteering, community building, and organizing.
Internet appliance An Internet appliance is a consumer product which accesses services on the Internet, such as the World Wide Web or Internet telephony, but which is not a general-purpose computer and does not have a hard drive in general. The idea behind Internet appliances is that they can be made cheaper than general-purpose computers and by being dedicated to a single function they can be simpler to use.
Internet Access and Training Program The Internet Access and Training Program (IATP) is a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), US Department of State, funded under the Freedom Support Act (FSA). IATP is administered by Project Harmony in Russia and by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in other Eurasian countries.
Internet Adult Film Database The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an online database of information pertaining to the adult industry, covering actors, actresses, directors and movies. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database, in that it is open to the public and is searchable.
Internet Advisor Broadband & Internet Advisor (originally Internet Advisor) is a magazine which was founded in 1993. The magazine was published by Future Publishing to provide technical articles, news, and reviews relating to Internet technology.
Internet Archive The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings (including recordings of live concerts from bands that allow it).
Internet Authentication Service Internet Authentication Service (IAS) provides centralized user authentication and authorization, auditing and accounting. It is included with the server editions of modern versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Internet backbone The Internet backbone refers to the main 'trunk' connections of the Internet. It is made up of a large collection of interconnected commercial, government, academic and other high-capacity data routes and routers that carry data across the countries, continents and oceans of the world.
Internet background noise Internet background noise (IBN) consists of data packets on the Internet which are addressed to IP addresses or ports where there is no network device set up to receive them. These noise packets normally contain unsolicited commercial or network control messages, or are the result of port scans and worm activities.
Internet band An Internet band (also sometimes called a virtual band) is a musical group whose members collaborate online through broadband by utilizing a content management system and local digital audio workstations. The work is sometimes released under a Creative Commons license, so musicians can share their 'samples' to create collaborative musical expressions for noncommercial purposes without ever meeting face to face.
Internet begging Internet begging is a cyber or e-version of traditional begging, asking strangers for money to meet immediate and other needs (money, food, and shelter). It is also referred to as cyber begging and internet panhandling.
Internet bot Internet bots, also known as web robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human editor alone.
Internet Broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems or IBS) is the largest national platform of TV station web sites. The company publishes over 70 sites for America's premier broadcasters: NBC, Cox Enterprises, Hearst-Argyle, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Post-Newsweek Stations, The E.
Internet Broadway Database The Internet Broadway Database (IBDb) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It is operated by the Research Department of the League of American Theatres and Producers, a trade association for the North American commercial theatre community.
Internet cafe An Internet café or cybercafé is a place where one can use a computer with Internet access for a fee, usually per hour or minute; sometimes one can have unmetered access with a pass for a day or month, etc. It may or may not serve as a regular café as well, with food and drinks being served.
Internet censorship in Australia Internet censorship in Australia is largely the province of the Federal Government and its laws on Internet censorship are, theoretically, amongst the most restrictive in the Western world. However, the restrictive nature of the laws has been combined with almost complete disinterest in enforcement from the agencies responsible for doing so.
Internet censorship in India Internet censorship in India is carried out by Central as well as state governments of India. While Article 19 of the Indian Constitution nominally guarantees freedom of speech to its citizens, there are many exceptions that render this right extremely limited.
Internet censorship in mainland China Internet censorship in mainland China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations. In accordance with these laws, more than sixty Internet regulations have been made by the People's Republic of China government, and censorship systems are implemented variously by provincial branches of state-owned ISPs, business companies, and organizations.
Internet censorship in Pakistan The Government of Pakistan censors all internet traffic by means of routing all connections through a central exchange which is administered by the Internet Exchange. Furthermore Pakistani ISPs are also under orders to block certain websites on their own routers.
Internet Cache Protocol The Internet Cache Protocol (ICP) is a protocol used for coordinating web caches. Its purpose is to find out the most appropriate location to retrieve a requested object from in the situation where multiple caches are in use at a single site.
Internet Communications Engine The Internet Communications Engine, or Ice, is a Remote Procedure Call and object middleware system developed by ZeroC and dual-licensed under the GNU GPL and a proprietary license. It aims to be useful for real-world systems without being overly complex, and also being highly efficient and scalable.
Internet Community Ports Act The Internet Community Ports Act (ICPA), created and advocated by The CP80 Foundation (aka "Clean Port 80") , is an approach to HTTP content filtering, leveraging HTTP ports to segregate content between "Community Ports" and "Open Ports." "Community Ports" would be for content that is not "obscene or harmful" to children; "Open Ports" would be for all other content, including content only suitable for adults, such as pornography.
Internet Connection Sharing Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) is the name given by Microsoft to a feature in newer versions of its Windows operating system (as of Windows 98 Second Edition) for sharing a single Internet connection on one computer between other computers on the same local area network. It makes use of DHCP and Network address translation (NAT).
Internet Content Rating Association ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, is an international, non-profit organization with offices in the US and UK. Its mission is to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they don't want for themselves or for their children.
Internet Control Message Protocol The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It is chiefly used by networked computers' operating systems to send error messages—indicating, for instance, that a requested service is not available or that a host or router could not be reached.
Internet Corporation Listing Service The Internet Corporation Listing Service is a fraudlent corporation that solicits website owners using the US Postal Service. they present the website owners with what looks like a fake bill or invoice and attempts to get them to pay between $35 to $95 dollars for submitting their website to 14 major search engines.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) is a task-force started by the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in 1998. Its primary goals are to provide state and local law enforcement agencies the tools to prevent Internet crimes against children by encouraging multi-jurisdictional cooperation as well as educating both law enforcement agents and parents and teachers.
Internet death penalty The Internet death penalty is a proposal that people configure their network routers or web sites so as to refuse data packets from organizations that hosts spammers, cutting their users off from content and/or bandwidth.
Internet dynamics The Internet has a large and growing number of users that have created a distinct culture, Internet Dynamics. For examples see Netiquette, Internet friendship, Internet romance, Trolls and trolling, Flaming, Cybering, Hacktivism, Internet humor, Internet slang, Internet art, PSTN.
Internet Direct (Indy) Internet Direct or Indy is an Open source Internet socket library written in Object-Oriented Pascal. It includes clients, servers, TCP, UDP, raw sockets, as well as over 100 higher level protocols implementations such as SMTP, POP3, NNTP, HTTP, and many more plus support for OpenSSL and Zlib in the protocol implementations .
Internet Download Manager Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a closed source software download manager only available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It can be downloaded for a free 30-day trial, or be purchased for a one-off payment for continual use.
Internet encyclopedia project The idea to build a free encyclopedia using the Internet can be traced at least to the 1993 Interpedia proposal; it was planned as an encyclopedia on the Internet to which everyone could contribute materials. The project never left the planning stage and it was overtaken by the explosion of the World Wide Web, the emergence of high-quality search engines, and the conversion of existing material.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a free online encyclopedia on philosophical topics and philosophers founded by James Fieser in 1995. The current general editors are James Fieser and Bradley Dowden.
Internet Engineering Task Force The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standard bodies; and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite. It is an open, all-volunteer standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements.
Internet Exchange Architecture Internet Exchange Architecture (acronym: IXA) is a chip set and framework produced by Intel Corporation used by manufacturers to design customised network processors. Introduced in 1999, the first model was based on the StrongARM processor.
Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico The Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico (IXPR) is an internet exchange point situated in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was established on November 22, 2005 by the Gauss Research Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico.
Internet Exchange Point An Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) is a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exchange Internet traffic between their networks (autonomous systems) by means of mutual peering agreements, which allow traffic to be exchanged without cost. IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the Average Per-Bit Delivery Cost of their service.
Internet Explorer Windows Internet Explorer (previously known as Microsoft Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a proprietary graphical web browser developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It has been the most widely-used web browser since 1999.
Internet Explorer box model bug The Internet Explorer box model bug is one of the best-known software bugs in a popular implementation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It affects CSS-aware versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser for Windows up to version six.
Internet Explorer for Mac Internet Explorer for Mac (also referred to as Internet Explorer:mac or Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition) was a proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft for the Macintosh platform. Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows.
Internet Explorer shell An Internet Explorer shell is computer software that uses the Trident rendering engine of Internet Explorer. Although the term Trident shell is probably more accurate for describing these applications, including Internet Explorer itself, the term Internet Explorer shell or IE shell is in common parlance.
Internet forum An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions and posting user generated content, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s.
Internet fraud The term "Internet fraud" generally refers to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more online services - such as chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites - to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme.
Internet friendship Internet friendships are friendships between people who have met online, and in some cases know each other only via the Internet. Online friendships are similar in many ways to penpal relationships, and like Internet romance, they have been widely debated and often criticized.
Internet generation Though perhaps more accurately called the "World Wide Web Generation," the Internet generation is an emerging term in theoretical and popular discourse to denote the American sub-generation branching off Generation Y, immediately following the MTV Generation. Internet generation riding technological wave into the future, Arizona Star (AP story) Born since the explosion of the home computer market in the mid-to-late 1980s and 1990s, the defining cultural-historical event to distinguish this cohort is that its members spent their formative years in an age of the rise of the World Wide Web.
Internet governance Policies and mechanisms for Internet governance have been topics of heated debate between many different Internet stakeholders, some of whom have very different visions for how and indeed whether the Internet should facilitate free communication of ideas and information.
Internet Generation iG - internet Generation (originally internet Grátis - "Free internet", and later internet Group when the company changed its focus in favor of non-free products in addition to the free dial-up service) is an ISP owned by Brasil Telecom.
Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a global venue under the auspices of the United Nations, established to accommodate multi–stakeholder policy dialogue in the field of internet governance. It purports to bring together all stakeholders in the internet governance debate, whether they represent states, the private sector or civil society, on an equal basis and through an open and inclusive process.
Internet hosting service An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet. There are various levels of service and various kinds of services offered.
Internet humor The Internet has long been a resource for the circulation of humorous ideas and jokes. Countless web-sites are devoted to the collection of Internet humour, and every day e-mail crosses the world, containing the text of humorous articles, or jokes about current events.
Internet Haganah Internet Haganah is a "global intelligence network dedicated to confronting internet activities by Islamists and their supporters, enablers and apologists." Internet Haganah also is an activist organization which attempts to convince businesses not to provide web-based services to such groups, and collects intelligence to store and pass on to government organizations.

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