NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Domain	Definition
Computing	National Information Infrastructure (NII, or "information superhighway") Future integrated communications in the USA. The NII will be based on a nationwide network of networks, and will supposedly allow all Americans to take advantage of the country's information, communication, and computing resources. The NII will include current and future public and private high-speed, interactive, narrow-band and broadband networks. It is the satellite, terrestrial, and wireless communications systems that deliver content to homes, businesses, and other public and private institutions. It is the information and content that flows over the infrastructure whether in the form of databases, the written word, a film, a piece of music, a sound recording, a picture, or computer software. It is the computers, televisions, telephones, radios, and other products that people will employ to access the infrastructure. It is the people who will provide, manage, and generate new information, and those that will help others do the same. And it is the individual Americans who will use and benefit from the NII. The NII is a term that encompasses all these components and captures the vision of a nationwide, invisible, seamless, dynamic web of transmission mechanisms, information appliances, content, and people. (http://sunsite.unc.edu/nii/NII-Table-of-Contents.html) (1995-04-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Post & Telecom	The US concept for ubiquitous availability of communications infrastructure(both telecommunications and cable)for the whole range of voice, data, and multi-media services, as proposed by the Clinton Administration. Also known as Information Superhighway. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: National Information Infrastructure

The National Information Infrastructure (NII) was a telecommunications policy buzzword, coined under the Clinton Administration in the United States. It was a proposed, advanced, seamless web of public and private communications networks, interactive services, interoperable hardware and software, computers, databases, and consumer electronics to put vast amounts of information at users' fingertips.

A side-effect of the Clinton Administration programs to build the NII was a push by cultural industries to expand the scope of copyright. This lead to the creation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the passage of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

Note: NII includes more than just the physical facilities (more than the cameras, scanners, keyboards, telephones, fax machines, computers, switches, compact disks, video and audio tape, cable, wire, satellites, optical fiber transmission lines, microwave nets, switches, televisions, monitors, and printers) used to transmit, store, process, and display voice, data, and images; it encompasses a wide range of interactive functions, user-tailored services, and multimedia databases that are interconnected in a technology-neutral manner that will favor no one industry over any other. Synonym information superhighway.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C

Commercial Usage: NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Domain	Title
Books	China and Cyberspace: The Development of the Chinese National Information Infrastructure (reference) Converging Infrastructures: Intelligent Transportation and the National Information Infrastructure (Publication of the Harvard Information infrastruc (reference) Information 'superhighways' : the UK national information infrastructure (reference) Internetworking, the key to the national information infrastructure (reference) Libraries and the national information infrastructure : proceedings of the 1994 Forum on Library and Information Services Policy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Language		Translations for "NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		NII. (various references)

Dutch		NII, national information infrastructure. (various references)

Finnish		tiedon kansallinen perusrakenne, informaation kansallinen infrastruktuuri. (various references)

French		INI, infrastructure nationale de l'information. (various references)

German		NII, nationale Informationsstruktur. (various references)

Italian		NII, infrastruttura di informazione nazionale. (various references)

Pig Latin		ationalnay informationay infrastructureay

Portuguese		NII. (various references)

Spanish		NII, infraestructura nacional de información. (various references)

Swedish		NII, nationell informationsinfrastruktur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.