CNI

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.
* Communication Networks Institute, located at Dortmund University of Technology

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.