CNI

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CNI is the acronym for a number of organizations, including:

• Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, the Spanish secret service agency.
• Central Nacional de Informaciones, the Chilean secret service agency.
• Church of North India
• CityNews International, A Canadian International Newscast which airs on the Citytv stations (excluding Citytv Toronto) and on Toronto's News Station CablePulse24.
• Coalition for Networked Information, an organization of libraries, universities, publishers and telecommunications firms.
• Corporación de Noticias e Informacion, México City TV Network channel 40
• Council for the National Interest, a political advocacy organization based in Washington, DC.
• Colegio Nacional de Iquitos, a Peruvian soccer team.

It is also an acronym for:

• Constant Neverending Improvement - system of continuous improvement promoted by Tony Robbins based on the Zen principle of kaizen
• Compiled Native Interface (previously called Cygnus Native Interface) - a Java Native Interface equivalent for the GCJ compiler
• Critical National Infrastructure - the essential systems and services which allow society to continue to function, such as electricity and water supplies.
• Originally Certified Netware Instructor, then subsequently (when Unixware entered Novells product range) it became Certified Novell Instructor.
• Certificate of No Impediment: If you are planning on marrying overseas (not in the UK), you may be required to provide the local authorities with a certificate of no impediment (CNI) as evidence that you are free and single to marry.
• Clinical Nursing Intern (nursing student)

It is also used as a phonetically similar abbreviation in:

• CNI-dog (or "seeing eye dog"), a guide dog for blind persons.