FIT Council for the 2025–2028 mandate. In the first row, FIT Honorary Advisors Andy Evans, Liese Katschinka, Reina de Bettendorf, and Henry Liu In Geneva this past September, the FIT Statutory Congress placed its trust in a new FIT Council for the 2025–2028 mandate. FIT Council 2025–2028 Guillaume Deneufbourg, CBTI (Belgium) Laurinda Cecilia Van Tonder,
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The Union of Translators and Interpreters of the Czech Republic (JTP) alerted FIT to the Czech government’s proposal to replace human interpreters with unsupervised AI machine interpreting in immigration and legal settings. Concerned that this could set a precedent for other governments to prioritise perceived cost savings over best practices and service quality, the FIT
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FIT Council is pleased to share this year’s theme for International Translation Day (ITD): Translation, an art worth protecting. Inspired by issues surrounding copyright, this year’s theme embraces the recognition of translations as original creative works in their own right, owed the benefit of copyright protection under the Berne Convention. As the creators of derivative
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As we say goodbye to 2023, which has arguably been a challenging year for many, FIT is also saying goodbye to our treasurer, Ted Wozniak, and Council member, Katia Jimenez, due to personal reasons. Council will co-opt replacements at our next meeting. We are grateful to Ted for the enormous amount of work he has
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