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Summit Committee
Language Standards for Global Business©
Barcelona, Spain
May 29-30, 2006

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Donald A. DePalma
Common Sense Advisory, Inc.

"Good standards can drive industries and grow markets. This summit will focus on the technology and business needs that benefit from standards."

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Hans Fenstermacher
President, ArchiText®

"Many constituencies in our industry are developing standards independently of one another, sometimes even competing ones. It's time to bring the standards efforts together so we can all benefit from the value that good, universally accepted standards provide."

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Kim Harris
Partner, text & form

We need to promote the maintenance and development of standards with the help of all constituencies, standards that all constituencies will uphold because they were involved in their development.


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Tex Texin
Internationalization Architect, Yahoo! Inc.

"Most companies assume that standards addressing language technologies and quality are the 'right stuff'. Standards are usually designed by experts to meet known industry needs. But these standards do not fit all potential uses. We have long needed a dialogue on language standards to help people make distinctions. This summit is the first time that this is being offered."

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Sue Ellen Wright
Professor, Institute for Applied Linguistics, Kent State University

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Alfredo Spagna
Managing Director, Arancho Nordic Oy

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Felix Sasaki
Internationalization Activity, W3C/Keio University, Japan

"Language standards are being developed within a great variety of scientific and business communities. They can only be successfully applied if these communities come together."

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Alan K. Melby
Brighham Young University

"Language standards, especially data representation and exchange standards, need to be technically adequate, carefully coordinated, and widely implemented in order to level the playing field and promote innovation. Let's work together to make this happen."

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