declaration of common interests...lt innovate jochen hummel, philippe wacker meta-net jan hajic,...
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DECLARATION OF COMMON INTERESTS We, the undersigned, declare here, at the Riga Summit on the Multilingual Digital Single Market, encouraged by the letter Vice President Andrus Ansip sent to its participants, that we stand united in our goal and interest to:
- support multilingualism in Europe by employing language technology in business, society and governance, to create a truly Multilingual Digital Single Market,
- exchange and share information in our efforts to promote our goals and interests at local, national and European levels,
- raise awareness in society at large using channels available to our associations, alliances and societies.
In the near future, we foresee the establishment of a Memorandum of Understanding among our organisations towards a “Coalition for a Multilingual Europe”, to better serve our members address the language barrier challenges towards establishing a truly integrated Multilingual Digital Single Market.
Riga, 29. April 2015
Signed by (in alphabetical order):
BDVA Laure Le Bars
CITIA Steve Renals
CLARIN Steven Krauwer
EFNIL Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Tamás Váradi
ELEN Davyth Hicks, Claudia Soria
ELRA Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri
GALA Laura Brandon, Robert E. Etches, Sergey Gladkov
LT Innovate Jochen Hummel, Philippe Wacker
META-NET Jan Hajic, Josef van Genabith, Georg Rehm, Andrejs Vasiljevs
NPLD Meirion Prys Jones
TAUS Jaap van der Meer W3C Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki
For any questions, please contact [email protected].