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 (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 the People's Republic of China. The FCCC organises China conferences, workshops, networking lunches and meetings with high-ranking Chinese delegations. The FCCC disseminates business advice from China experts and also issues a monthly electronic newsletter. It organises missions to China, working in close cooperation with official government bodies. The FCCC is an active member of the EU-China Business Association (EUCBA). This is the umbrella organisation for all China associations in Europe. The EUCBA promotes economic and trading relations between the EU and China, working closely with the European Commission and the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

Flanders' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VOKA)

Voka is the Flemish Chamber of Commerce and and aims at stimulating economic activity and intends to create an optimal framework for successful enterprises. Voka contributes to supporting the economic development of our region by lobbying, networking and offering specific services to businesses. The Voka alliance unites more than 16,000 businesses from all sectors within the Flemish region. The size varies from start-ups or small companies to well-established multinationals with thousands of employees..

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.

ELIA (European Language Industry Association)

The European Language Industry Association (ELIA) is committed to representing the best interests of translation, interpretation and localization companies active in Europe by providing a forum for exchange, fostering the development of business relationships with fellow-members and other related international organizations, and promoting the concept of ethics and quality standards throughout the industry.

SDL Technology Partner

SDL Trados Technologies is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage the delivery of global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed translation supply chain.

Global industry leaders rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or hosted services for their GIM processes, including ABN-Amro, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Chrysler, CNH, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Philips, SAP, Sony, Sun Microsystems and Virgin Atlantic.

SDL Trados Technologies has implemented more than 500 enterprise GIM solutions, has deployed over 170,000 software licenses across the GIM ecosystem and provides access to on-demand translation portals for 10 million customers per month. Over 1,000 service professionals deliver consulting, implementation and language services through its global infrastructure of more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com