Isa

Isa or ISA may refer to:

Places

• Isa, Kagoshima, Japan
• Isa District, Kagoshima, former district in Japan
• Isa, Nigeria
• Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Arts and entertainment

• ISA (film), a 2014 television film
• Isa (album), a 2004 album by Enslaved
• Isa (character), the central character of the graphic novel series Les Passagers du vent
• ISA (Days of Our Lives), International Security Alliance, fictional spy agency on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
• Isa the iguana, a character in the children's TV series Dora the Explorer
• Isa, a local dance of the Canary Islands
• Interplanetary Strategic Alliance, an alliance in the Killzone series of video games

Education

• Independent Schools Association (Australia), a grouping of schools primarily based in Sydney, Australia, for the purposes of sporting competitions
• Independent Schools Association (UK), one of the oldest independent school organisations in the UK
• Iniciativa de Salud de las Americas, the Spanish name of the immigration advocacy group at UC Berkeley, Health Initiative of the Americas
• Institute for the Study of the Americas, a research institute associated with the University of London's School of Advanced Study
• Instituto Superior de Agronomia, an agronomy faculty in Lisbon, Portugal
• Instituto Superior de Arte, an art school in Havana, Cuba
• International School Amsterdam, an international school in the Netherlands
• International School of Aleppo, the only international school in Syria, located in Aleppo city
• International School of Athens, an International Baccalaureate school in Athens, Greece
• International School of the Americas, a magnet school in San Antonio, Texas
• International Studies Association, an association of political science and international relations scholars

Finance

• Individual Savings Account, a financial investment account with favourable tax status in the UK
• International Standards on Auditing, professional standards for the performance of financial audits
• Israel Securities Authority, the national securities regulator of Israel

Government

• Intelligence Services Act 1994, which authorizes espionage by intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom
• International Searching Authority, a patent office performing prior art searches under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
• International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body established to organize and control mineral-related activities in international seabed areas
• Israel Security Agency, aka Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service
• Israel State Archives, the national archive of Israel
• Independent Safeguarding Authority, a defunct body in the UK created to help protect children and vulnerable adults
• Intelligence Support Activity, a special operations unit of the US Army
• Iranian Space Agency, the governmental space agency of Iran
• Israel Space Agency, the governmental space agency of Israel
• Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations, a European Commission programme that promotes interoperability across the European Union

Religion and social sciences

• Jesus in Islam, the name of Jesus in Islamic texts
• Book of Isaiah, abbreviation used for the book of the Bible
• Isha Upanishad, a Hindu religious text
• Ideological State Apparatus, a term used by Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser for the way society reshapes the individual in its own image
• International Sociological Association, a non-profit organization in the fields of sociology and the social sciences

Science and nature

• Intrinsic sympatheticomimetic activity, a term used with beta blockers which are partial agonists
• Isosaccharinic acid, a six-carbon sugar acid
• Infectious salmon anemia, a viral disease of salmon
• International Standard Atmosphere, an atmospheric model published by the ISO
• International Society of Arboriculture, a non-profit botanical organization
• International Society of Automation, a non-profit technical society
• Institut de Sélection Animale, developer of Isa Brown hens

Sports

• International Surfing Association, the world governing authority for the sport of surfing
• Irish Sailing Association, the governing body for sailing in Ireland

Technology

• Is-a, a relationship between objects; for instance, an apple tree "is a" tree
• Instruction set architecture
• Industry Standard Architecture, an I/O bus standard for IBM-compatible PC motherboards
• ISA platform (Intelligent Software Architecture), the overall software architecture in many feature phones that use Nokia OS
• Intelligent speed adaptation, also known as Intelligent Speed Assistance, Speed Alerting, and Intelligent Speed Authority, any system that constantly monitors vehicle speed and the local speed limit on a road and implements an action when the vehicle is detected to be exceeding the speed limit
• Information Systems Associates FZE, An Aviation (Airline, Airport, Travel Agent) IT solutions provider

Other uses

• Isa (name), an Arabic name corresponding to Jesus in English
• Isaz, the "I" rune in the Futhark
• International Symbol of Access, an image of a stylized person in a wheelchair against a blue background, meant to designate handicap accessibility at a glance

See also

• Internal Security Act (disambiguation)