Acronyms

2FA – Two-Factor Authentication

3D- Three Dimensional

5G- Fifth Generation Mobile Network

AH – Authentication Header

AI – Artificial Intelligence

AR – Augmented Reality

ARPANET – The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

B2B- Business to Business

BBC- British Broadcasting Corporation

BBS- Bulletin Board Systems

CAC- Customer Acquisition Cost

CCD – Charge-coupled Device

CCPA- California Consumer Privacy Act

CD – Compact Disk

CIA- Central Intelligence Agency

CLTV – Customer Lifetime Value

CMOS – Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMS – Content Management Systems

CNNs – Convolutional Neural Networks

COPPA- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

CORS – Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

CPM- Communication Privacy Management

CRM- Customer Relationship Management

CRM- Customer Relationship Management

CSS – Cascading Style Sheets

CTA-  Call To Action

CTR- Click-Through Rate

CU – Close-Up

DAWs – Digital Audio Workstations

DNS – Domain Name System 

DRM- Digital Rights Management

DVD – Digital Versatile Disk

E-commerce – Electronic Commerce

ECU – Extreme Close-Up

ELS – Extreme Long Shot

ESP- Email Service Provider

GANs – Generative Adversarial Networks

GDPR- General Data Protection Regulation

GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIS- Geographic Information System

GPS- Global Positioning System

HONY- Humans of New York

HTML- Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol 

ICTs- Information and Communication Technologies

IDS – Intrusion Detection Systems

IETF – Internet Task Force 

IKE – Internet Key Exchange 

IoT- Internet of Things

IP – Internet Protocol

IPS – Intrusion Prevention Systems

IPsec – Internet Protocol Security

ISO – International Organization for Standardization

JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

KPIs- Key Performance Indicators

LCD – Liquid Crystal Display

LS – Long Shot

LTV- Lifetime Value

MAAIF- Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries

MAC – Message Authentication Code

MFA – Multi-Factor Authentication

MIME – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MISR- Makerere Institute of Social Research

MLS – Medium Long Shot

Mojo- Mobile Journalism

MR – Mixed Reality

MRT- Media Richness Theory

MS – Medium Shot

MTA – Mail Transfer Agent 

MUA – Mail User Agent 

NASA- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAT – Network Address Translation 

NGO- Non Governmental Organization

NVT – Network Virtual Terminal

OSI – Open Systems Interconnection

OTS – Over-the-Shoulder Shot

PGP – Pretty Good Privacy 

PNG – Portable Network Graphic

POV – Point-of-View Shot

PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

ROI – Return On Investment

RSS- Really Simple Syndication

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

SERPs- Search Engine Results Pages

SMART- Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound

SMS- Short Message Service

SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SPT- Social Presence Theory

SSL – Secure Sockets Layer 

TIFF – Tag Image File Format

TLS – Transport Layer Security 

TTS – Text-to-speech

TV- Television

UGC- User-Generated Content

UJCC- The Uganda Joint Christian Council

UMC- Ultimate Media Consult

UN- United Nations

UNESCO- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

URL- Universal Resource Locator

UX-  User Experience

VoIP- Voice over IP

VPN – Virtual Private Network

VR – Virtual Reality

WCAG- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

WHO- World Health Organization

XLD – X Lossless Decoder