TAMA Conference

<body> <p><font face="Arial"><small><small><small><script language="javascript"> if (top.location != location) top.location.href = location.href; </script> </small></small></small><font size="5"></font></font></p>  <p class="Headings">Participants</p> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/colorbar.gif" width="228" height="1" alt="line"></p> <p>Approximately 250 participants from various professional and cultural backgrounds are expected to attend TAMA 2003 SA.</p> <p>The Training Sessions will focus mainly on (South) African students and professionals who deal with multilingual terminology in their daily work.</p> <p class="Heading2">Target groups</p> <blockquote> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1" width="70%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Terminologists in the National Language Service (NLS) of DAC (Department of Arts & Culture)</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Collaborators of NLS on terminology projects residing in all nine provinces of South Africa</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Members of Afrilex (African Association for Lexicography)</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Pan South African Language Board structures, such as the National Language Bodies (14 units), National Lexicography Units (11 units), Provincial Language Committees (9 units)</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Provincial Government language services and Hansard Units in the provinces</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Postgraduate terminology and lexicography students from various tertiary institutions of learning</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Business organizations who would like to start addressing terminology matters in their organizations</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) dealing with communities and knowledge transfer</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">Other interested parties</td> </tr> </table> </center> </blockquote> <p class="Heading2">The Pre-Conference Workshop and the Conference are aimed at</p> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="1" width="70%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">business people marketing technology products and services</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">members of the government</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">language experts from SA and</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><img border="0" src="images/bullet_yellow.gif" alt="bullet" width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top">the scientific community, represented by experts in the field of terminology and technology.</td> </tr> </table> </center> <p>These participants will come from all over the world. TAMA aims at finding new synergies and creating bonds of cooperation and business partnerships for the future.</p> <p>Thus, TAMA, is to be regarded as a basis for a new, effective and closer networking between national and international business, science and government.</p> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/line.gif" alt="line" width="394" height="1"></p>  </body>