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Visionaries: The Price of a Cappuccino = Multilingualism as a Democratic Right (premium) • Karl-Johan Lönnroth, Director-General for Translation, European Commission
Interviewed by Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA
18 Acquisitions in One Year! • Karen Eden, Knowledge Development Director, Oracle
New Excitement, New Sensations, A New Generation (premium) • Dr. Minako O’Hagan, Lecturer in Translation Technology, SALIS, Dublin City University
We Need to Be in China Now! (premium) • Scott Atwood, Development Technical Lead for Global Foundations Engineering, PayPal
Focus on Standards: Language Industry Standards: OASIS and LISA Working Together • Andrzej Zydroń, CTO, XML-INTL Ltd.
Implementing Localization Workflow for Pan- European Product Management (premium) • Salomé López-Lavado, Translation Services Manager, Customer Interaction Group, Sony Europe

Visionaries

The Price of a Cappuccino = Multilingualism as a Democratic Right

Karl-Johan Lönnroth, Director-General for Translation, European Commission
Interviewed by Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA

An expanded version of this article originally appeared in the September 2005 issue of the Globalization Insider.

Next time you are tempted to bemoan the fact of how difficult your job is, think of Karl-Johan Lönnroth and his challenges at the European Commission: 380 (!) possible language combinations, text that can literally be on any subject that you can think of, a quickly dwindling supply of professionals who can perform the work required, a majority of content creators who do not work in their native language, etc. etc.

Here are some other facts and figures to help readers put into perspective the challenges faced by Lönnroth and his team at the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission:

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