Participants

Approximately 250 participants from various professional and cultural backgrounds are expected to attend TAMA 2003 SA.

The Training Sessions will focus mainly on (South) African students and professionals who deal with multilingual terminology in their daily work.

Target groups

	Terminologists in the National Language Service (NLS) of DAC (Department of Arts & Culture)
	Collaborators of NLS on terminology projects residing in all nine provinces of South Africa
	Members of Afrilex (African Association for Lexicography)
	Pan South African Language Board structures, such as the National Language Bodies (14 units), National Lexicography Units (11 units), Provincial Language Committees (9 units)
	Provincial Government language services and Hansard Units in the provinces
	Postgraduate terminology and lexicography students from various tertiary institutions of learning
	Business organizations who would like to start addressing terminology matters in their organizations
	Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) dealing with communities and knowledge transfer
	Other interested parties

The Pre-Conference Workshop and the Conference are aimed at

	business people marketing technology products and services
	members of the government
	language experts from SA and
	the scientific community, represented by experts in the field of terminology and technology.

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.

Thus, TAMA, is to be regarded as a basis for a new, effective and closer networking between national and international business, science and government.