Memberships

Belgium-Japan Association and Chamber of Commerce (BJA)

The Belgium-Japan Association and Chamber of Commerce (BJA) is a non-profit organisation that promotes business and cultural relations between Belgium, Europe and Japan. It pursues the following objectives: promoting Belgian export and investment in Japan, encouraging Japanese investment in Belgium & promoting free trade and fair competition. The BJA offers a unique combination of business and cultural events to its 450 Belgian, European and Japanese members. Join our events and enter our network of top businessmen and women. Yamagata is a member and active member of the editorial team. Geert Benoit has co-edited the book "Export to Japan: 20 Belgian success stories" (click here for more info).

LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association)

LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association) is an international forum for organizations doing business globally. It provides guidelines, best practice and standards to enable organizations to deliver on its international objectives. LISA and its members support the following values and principles:
Global Responsibility: companies doing business around the world have a responsibility to respect the nations and cultures with which they do business.
Global Entrepreneurship: globalization allows for the spreading of prosperity across national boundaries and the extension of benefits around the world.
Global Leadership: LISA members understand the value of global business and localisation and are in a position to lead their partners and others into responsible global business practices.
Global Cooperation: LISA promotes cooperation on a global scale, with companies and individuals coming together to work on areas of common interest.

Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is a fully representative, non-profit, international industry association for the translation, internationalization, localization, and globalization industry. The association gives members a common forum to discuss issues, create innovative solutions, promote the industry, and present a joint - and more powerful - voice within the industry and to the outside community.

TAUS

TAUS is a networking community for users and providers of translation and localization technologies and services. The ambition to automate translation more than what until now seemed humanly possible is what brings companies and institutions together in TAUS. TAUS focuses on the whole spectrum of authoring, translation and globalization processes and technologies. Simply by enabling members to share information, identify best practices, find technologies and experts, benchmark processes and leverage their buying influence, TAUS helps companies to save management time, avoid the risk of mistaken investment decisions, and save money. By exchanging experiences and insights TAUS members cut back dramatically on the learning and implementation costs of new translation technologies.

Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce

The Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce is an action platform initiated by the business community for the promotion of economic, trade and scientific relations with the People’s Republic of China. With a clear European perspective, it aims to achieve its objectives through information and interaction, and by supporting projects in cooperation with government and other public authorities. The Flanders-China Chamber of Commerce (FCCC) is a private institution. It promotes economic, commercial and scientific relations between Flanders and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The FCCC assists Flemish companies in doing business with China and supports Chinese companies wishing to invest in Flanders. The FCCC is a lobby organisation acting with the authorities in Flanders, Belgium and the European Union, as well as with official authorities in te People’s Republic of China.

Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BICC&I)

Founded in 1954, the Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BICC&I) is today at the heart of a growing network with access to more than 1.400 contacts in Belgium directly involved in business with India. The Chamber seeks to promote the commercial, industrial, scientific and financial co-operation between Belgium and the Republic of India by : exchanging information through its website, its newsletter "India News Flash" etc..., developing contacts between Belgian and Indian companies through regular meetings, seminars, workshops and delegations, intensifying contacts between Belgian and Indian official institutions within the framework of economic and trade co-operation, supporting organizations working on activities with India in various fields : economic, social, cultural, charity...

Belgian Quality Translation Association

The Belgian Quality Translation Association is a non-profit making organisation founded in 1995 whose members are translation companies established in Belgium. The BQTA has drawn up a quality charter comprising 10 points which member companies of the association undertake to comply with. For more details, click here.

Society For Technical Communication

STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. Its 18,000 members include technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, Web designers and developers, and translators - anyone whose work makes technical information available to those who need it..

The Tool Kit

This biweekly newsletter contains current and translation-specific information on operating systems, office suites, computer-assisted translation tools, utilities, desktop publishing applications, and more. It is the perfect information source for people in the translation industry who want to get more out of their computers.