E-commerce
Electronic commerce. refers to the general exchange of goods and services via the internet.

E-government
Delivering local government service through electronic means. electronic means include telephone and fax, and increasingly the internet (whether accessed through a pc, digital TV, phone or other device). electronic access may be direct, or mediated through call centres or front offices in which the operator has access to information electronically and can seek information or complete transactions on behalf of members of the public who prefer to conduct business face to face or by telephone.

E-health
E-health (eHealth or e-Health) refers to the application of electronic information and communication technologies in the health sector in order to meet needs of patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, as well as policy makers. An examples of the use of ICTs in the health area includes health information networks among citizens and patients on various medical topics, electronic health records enabling easy sharing of patient data between different healthcare professionals, telemedicine services allowing a patient to access appropriate treatment without need to travel to a specialist, monitoring systems such as epidemiological tracking, or health portals facilitating dissemination of information to citizens and to healthcare professionals. [3]&[2] Some points that e-health is only another 'buzzword' used to describe “virtually everything related to computers and medicine”. Others highlights that 'e' in e-health stands not only for electronic but also other opportunities and challenges brought by ICTs to healthcare, such as equality, extension, ethics or empowerment.[1]
[[1]What is e-health? Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2001;3(2):e20, <http://www.jmir.org/2001/2/e20/>
[2]eHealth, Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia,<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHealth>
[3]e-Health,eEurope 2005, <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/index_en.htm>]
Related resources:
»What is e-health?
»eHealth

E-mail lists
An email list is a central email address that forwards messages to the other addresses specified in a list. Email lists are run by a program on a server called a list server. Lists can be set up by registering the list, and its members, with the list server program. The program then organises the transfer of messages from the list's email address to all the members of the list. But it can also organise other services at the same time, such as archiving the messages sent through the list so that they can be accessed as pages via the Web.

Empowerment
The idea of power is at the root of the term empowerment. Power must be understood as working at different levels, including the institutional, the household and the individual. Empowerment is sometimes described as being about the ability to make choices, but it must also involve being able to shape what choices are on offer. Empowerment corresponds to women challenging existing power structures, which subordinate women. As such, what is seen as empowering in one context may not be in another. Empowerment is not about reversing existing power hierarchies but rather about empowering women and/or women's groups to make their own choices, to speak out on their own behalf and to control their own lives
[Wieringa, 1994]
Related resources:
»AWID:Empowerment
»GEM:The Five Levels of the Women's Empowerment Framework

Encryption
The translation of data into a secret code. Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it.

Encryption
Encryption is the process of encoding information so that it cannot be decoded, or decrypted, without the use of a key. The process of encryption relies of mathematical problems so complex that they cannot be solved without the key. This prevents anyone but those holding the key from decrypting data. There are a number of different mathematical systems or 'ciphers' for encrypting data. They fall into two broad groups: symmetric ciphers and public key or asymmetric ciphers. Today public key encryption is becoming the standard for every encryption because of its ease of use. Systems for public key encryption are usually based around the program Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP.

Equipment type approval
Developing and monitoring technical standards for equipment that connects to the networks – so that your radio, phone and modem work reliably.

Evaluation
A process by which a strategy, issue, or relationship is studied and assessed in-depth.
Related resources:
»IDRC, Outcome Mapping