'non-infrastructure-oriented' originates from the prefix 'non-' meaning 'not', combined with 'infrastructure', which comes from French 'infrastructure', and 'oriented', from Latin 'orientare', meaning 'to arrange'.

'non-infrastructure-oriented' evolved from the combination of 'non-' and 'infrastructure-oriented', which was used to describe projects or activities not related to physical structures.

Initially, it meant 'not related to physical structures', and this meaning has largely remained the same in modern usage.