In Celebrations of His Majesty the King’s 84 Birthday Anniversary Her Majesty the Queen’s 80’s Birthday Anniversary and His Royal

Highness The Crown Prince’s 60 Birthday Anniversary 

Maneerat Sawasdiwat Na Ayutthaya, Ph.D.President

Association of Asian Translation Industry (AATI)maneerat@cpe.rmutt.ac.th

International Translator Day 28th September 2012Bangkok, Thailand

International Forum on “Translation, Localization, Interpretation and Sign Language Strategies

In ASEAN Community”

1. Regional Balance Asia with largest area and population

(7,139,445 sq miles with 60% of world population) and most varied languages (2,322) should be given more attention.

2. Global Market Share - Asia shares only 12% of the world

translation market revenue while Europe leads the role with 49%, and the U.S 35%.

The world top three LSP’s: two are in Europe and 1 in the U.S. (2012).

New Thinking

3. Outsourced language services and technology value US$33.523 billion in 2012. 90% of companies outsource some or all of their translation and localization work.

4. Government economists expect job growth for translators and interpreters in the U.S. to be much faster than the average for all careers through 2018 (62,200) with the increase of 22% from 2008 (50,900)

5. It would take 83 languages to reach 80 percent of all the people in the world.

6. Change the world thinking that we are just outsourcing countries

7. Proud of being ASEAN8. For the advancement and socio-economic development of ASEAN/Asia

World harmony and collaboration for the benefit and advancement of ASEAN/Asia

ASEAN Translation and Interpretation Center (Model EU) proposed since 2010 by our group.

Vision, Mission, Strategies

The 12 countries/region have joined the Association in alphabetical order (June 2012):

1. China (Judy Zhang) Hong Kong (China) (Hong Jiang, Chan Tak Leo) 2. Cambodia (Saeng Sopagna) 3. India (Ravi Kumar) 4. Indonesia (Benny Hoed) 5. Laos (Thongsavanh Khammanichanh, Sengfa

Holanouphab) 6. Malaysia (Marvin Yap, Hasuria Che Omar) 7. Myanmar (Kyaw Swa Win) 8. Nepal (Shital Bhandary) 9. Philippines (Smuel Caezar S Porcalla, Lawrence Platon) 10. Thailand (Maneerat Sawasdiwat Na Ayutthaya) 11.Vietnam (Tuan Dinh Khac)

The Association of Asian Translation Industry (AATI)

Aims

Networking , Open access, Quality-focus, and Respect each member country’s expertise

1. 2. 3.

What do you expect from us?

We are looking for Leaders to join with us,

Maneerat (maneerat@cpe.rmutt.ac.th)

This is for ASEAN/AsiaThank you

Welcome