| ACOA | Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency |
| ACP | Affordable Connectivity Program |
| ACS | American Community Survey |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| AR | Augmented reality |
| ARC | Appalachian Regional Commission |
| ARPA | American Rescue Plan Act |
| AU | Adjacent to urban |
| BDC | Indigenous Loan Fund |
| BEA | Bureau of Economic Analysis |
| BEAD | Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program |
| BSSP | Business Support Simplification Programme |
| CARES | Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security |
| CBP | County Business Patterns |
| CCTE | Center for Career and Technical Education |
| CCTT | Centres collégiaux de transfert de technologie, Technology transfer centres |
| CDB | Community development bank |
| CDFI | Community Development Financial Institutions |
| CED | Canada Economic Development for Quebec Region |
| CEDS | Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy |
| CEGEP | Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel, Community colleges |
| CNC | Computer numerical control |
| COG | Council of Governments |
| CRA | Community Reinvestment Act |
| CRM | Customer relationship management |
| DATA | Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability |
| DCN | Dakota Carrier Network |
| DoJ | Department of Justice |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line/Loop |
| EC | European Commission |
| EDA | Economic Development Administration |
| EDC | Indigenous Community Business Fund |
| EDD | Economic Development District |
| EDI | Economic Development Initiative |
| ENoLL | European Network of Living Laboratories |
| EODA | Eastern Ohio Development Alliance |
| EPB | Electric Power Board |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
| FTTB | Fibre-to-the-building |
| FTTC | Fibre-to-the-curb |
| FTTH | Fibre-to-the-home |
| FTTN | Fibre-to-the-node |
| FTTP | Fibre-to-the-premise |
| FUA | Functional urban area |
| FWA | Fixed wireless access |
| FY | Financial year |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GED | Gallup Economic Development |
| GFPB | Go Forward Pine Bluff |
| GGEDC | Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation |
| GLP | Gallup Land Partners |
| HBCU | Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| HERD | Higher Education and Research and Development |
| HSI | Hispanic-serving institution |
| IEDC | International Economic Development Council |
| IIJA | Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IRA | Inflation Reduction Act |
| ISED | Innovation, Science and Economic Development |
| ISP | Internet service provider |
| IXP | Internet Exchange Points |
| JRC | European Commission Joint Research Centre |
| LISC | Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
| MNO | Mobile network operator |
| MR | Metropolitan regions |
| MSA | Metropolitan statistical area |
| NADO | National Association of Development Organizations |
| NAU | Non-adjacent to urban |
| NCCER | National Center for Construction Education and Research |
| NESTI | National Experts on Science and Technology Indicator |
| NGBEP | Next Generation Broadband Expansion Programme |
| NGIN | New Growth Innovation Network |
| NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
| NLC | National League of Cities |
| NMU | Northern Michigan University |
| NOFO | Notice of Funding Opportunity |
| NTIA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration |
| NTU | Navajo Technical University |
| NWNMCOG | Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments |
| OLMC | Official language minority community |
| OLS | Ordinary Least Squares |
| OVBI | OpenVault Broadband Insights |
| PISA | OECD Programme for International Student Assessment |
| PPC | Persistent poverty county |
| PPP | Public-private partnership |
| QoS | Quality of service |
| R&D | Research and development |
| R&O | Report and Order |
| RDA | Regional development agency |
| RDOF | Rural Digital Opportunity Fund |
| RIS | Regional Innovation Scheme |
| RISE | Rural Innovation Stronger Economy |
| RLF | Revolving loan fund |
| RNTA | Research and National Technical Assistance |
| RUCC | Rural-Urban Continuum Code |
| SAIPE | Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates |
| SBA | Small Business Administration |
| SBIC | Small Business Investment Corporation |
| SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
| SBLN | State Broadband Leaders Network |
| SBTT | Small Business Technology Transfer |
| SDB | Small, disadvantaged business |
| SEAEDD | Southeast Arkansas Economic Development District, Inc. |
| SEARK | Southeast Arkansas College |
| SES | Scenario Exploration System |
| SLFRF | State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds |
| SMEs | Small and medium-sized entreprises |
| SRLL | Smart Rural Living Lab |
| SSBCI | State Small Business Credit Initiatives |
| SSI | Shimadzu Scientific Instruments |
| STEM | Science, technology, engineering and mathematics |
| STTR | Small Business Technology Transfer |
| TA | Technical assistance |
| TCU | Tribal Colleges and Universities |
| UAPB | University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff |
| UC | University center |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USF | Universal Service Fund |
| USPTO | United States Patent and Trademark Office |
| VC | Venture capital |
| VR | Virtual reality |
| WISP | Wireless Internet Service Provider |