https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/ 2026-06-05T14:43:43-0400 https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/ https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:dgpr&rev=1633369211&do=diff General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Return to Glossary General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information from individuals who live in the European Union (EU). Since the Regulation applies regardless of where websites are based, it must be heeded by all sites that attract European visitors, even if they don't specifically market goods or services to EU residents. text/html 2022-04-25T15:29:38-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gaap&rev=1650914978&do=diff Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Return to Glossary Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) refers to a common set of accounting principles, standards, and procedures issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Public companies in the U.S. must follow GAAP when their accountants compile their financial statements. text/html 2022-02-05T04:45:21-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:ganache&rev=1644054321&do=diff Ganache Return to Glossary Ganache is a personal Blockchain for rapid Ethereum and Corda distributed [dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:a:application]] development. Ganache can be used for across the entire development cycle; enabling the development, deployment, and testing text/html 2022-02-26T19:53:28-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gao&rev=1645923208&do=diff Government Accountability Office (GAO) Return to Glossary The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent and non-partisan U.S. legislative agency that monitors and audits government spending and operations. Often called the “congressional watchdog,” text/html 2022-05-11T18:23:47-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gas&rev=1652307827&do=diff Gas Return to Glossary Gas is a measurement roughly equivalent to computational steps (for Ethereum). Every transaction is required to include a gas limit and a fee that it is willing to pay per gas; miners have the choice of including the transaction and collecting the fee or not. Every operation has a gas expenditure; for most operations, it is ~3–10, although some expensive operations have expenditures up to 700 and a transaction itself has an expenditure of 21000. text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gateway&rev=1633369211&do=diff Gateway Return to Glossary A Gateway normally works at the Transport and Session Layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model. At the Transport layer and above, there are numerous protocols and standards from different vendors; gateways are used to deal with them. Gateways provide translation between networking technologies such as Open System Interconnection (OSI) and text/html 2021-10-08T18:53:22-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:geolocation&rev=1633733602&do=diff Geolocation Return to Glossary Geolocation is the wireless detection of the physical location of a remote device. As a noun, geolocation refers to the physical location itself; as a verb, the term refers to the process of detecting that location. Depending on the method used, a geolocation can be as general as the continent the user is connecting from or as specific as his geographic position, defined as latitude and longitude coordinates, or sometimes latitude, longitude plus altitude. Loc… text/html 2022-05-06T21:58:51-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gift_card&rev=1651888731&do=diff Gift Card Return to Glossary A Gift Card is a Prepaid Debit Card that contains a specific amount of money available for use for a variety of purchases. Store gift cards are designed to be used at specific merchants or retailers, while general-use prepaid gift cards are not affiliated with any specific merchant and can also be used to withdraw cash at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). text/html 2022-03-30T19:13:36-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:glba&rev=1648682016&do=diff Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Return to Glossary The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was enacted in 1999 to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. The repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed mergers between different types of financial institutions to occur, which enabled increased efficiency in the dissemination of financial information. To promote consumer privacy, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act included regulations to limit the ways in which companies handled and shared financial data. text/html 2021-10-03T15:34:16-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gms&rev=1633289656&do=diff Google Mobile Services (GMS) Return to Glossary Google Mobile Services (GMS) are the apps by Google that often come pre-installed on Android devices. GMS is not a part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which means an Android manufacturer needs to obtain a license from Google in order to legally pre-install GMS on an Android device. This license is provided by Google without any license fees. text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:goal&rev=1633369211&do=diff Goal Return to Glossary A Goal is an overarching statement that is meant to provide overall context for an outcome of a project. This outcome is a summary statement of the business value of the project. Source: Goal text/html 2022-01-18T13:40:59-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gossip&rev=1642531259&do=diff Gossip Protocol Return to Glossary Gossip Protocol is a communication Protocol, it is process computer to computer communication that works on the same principle as how information is shared on social networks. Nowadays, most of the systems often use Gossip Protocols to solve problems that might be difficult to solve in other ways, either due to inconvenience in the structure, is extremely large, or because text/html 2021-10-04T06:39:57-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gots&rev=1633343997&do=diff Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) Return to Glossary Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) is a term for software and hardware government products that are ready to use and which were created and are owned by a government agency. Typically GOTS are developed by the technical staff of the government agency for which it is created. It is sometimes developed by an external text/html 2022-01-15T18:18:22-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gov_body&rev=1642288702&do=diff Governing Body Return to Glossary A Governing Body is a group of people having authority to exercise Governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a given geopolitical system (such as a state) by establishing laws. Other types of governing include an organization (such as a corporation recognized as a legal entity by a government), a sociopolitical group (chiefdom, tribe, fa… text/html 2022-03-26T21:19:28-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:governance&rev=1648343968&do=diff Governance Return to Glossary Governance is the system by which entities are directed and controlled. It is concerned with structure and processes for decision-making, accountability, control and behavior at the top of an entity. Governance influences how an organization’s objectives are set and achieved, how risk is monitored and addressed and how performance is optimized. Governance is a system and process, not a single activity, and therefore successful implementation of a good governan… text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gpgpu&rev=1633369211&do=diff General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) Return to Glossary General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) is a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that performs non-specialized calculations that would typically be conducted by the Central Processing Unit (CPU) (central processing unit). Ordinarily, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is dedicated to graphics rendering. text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gpu&rev=1633369211&do=diff Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Return to Glossary Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing. Their highly parallel structure makes them mo… text/html 2022-04-25T14:59:04-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:graph_db&rev=1650913144&do=diff Graph DataBase (GDB) Return to Glossary A Graph DataBase is a NoSQL-type Database system based on a topographical network structure. The idea stems from graph theory in mathematics, where graphs represent data sets using nodes, edges, and properties. Nodes or points are instances or entities of data which represent any object to be tracked, such as people, accounts, locations, etc. text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:greenfield&rev=1633369211&do=diff Greenfield Return to Glossary Greenfield is a type of deployment that refers to the installation of an IT system where previously there was none. This term is derived from the construction industry, where new development on previously undeveloped land is called greenfield development. Greenfield deployment may refer to a network, data center or other major IT projects when they are built from the ground up. This type of development is often beneficial because it is not subject to constraints… text/html 2022-04-27T01:15:21-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gsc&rev=1651036521&do=diff Global StableCoin (GSC) Return to Glossary Global StableCoin (GSC) is Stablecoin with a potential reach and adoption across multiple jurisdictions and the potential to achieve substantial volume. Source: <https://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P131020-3.pdf> text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:gui&rev=1633369211&do=diff Graphical User Interface (GUI) Return to Glossary Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a type of user interface through which users interact with electronic devices via visual indicator representations. Source: Graphical User Interface (GUI) text/html 2021-10-04T13:40:11-0400 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.omgwiki.org/dido/doku.php?id=dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:g:start&rev=1633369211&do=diff Glossary G Terms Return to Glossary Note: You can add new terms beginning with 'G' here List of Words Return to Top * Ganache * Gas * Gateway * General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) * General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) * Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) * Geolocation * Gift Card * Global StableCoin (GSC) * Goal * Google Mobile Services (GMS) * Gossip Protocol * Governance * Governing Body * Government Accountability Office (GAO) * Governmen…