Special Relations & Affiliates

Special relations

Infoterm maintains working relations with:

• United Nations (UN)
  
  • United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN/ECOSOC)
    Infoterm has a consultative status with ECOSOC.
  • United Nations Department of Public Information (UN/DPI)
    Infoterm is associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information.
  • International Annual Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology (JIAMCATT)
    Infoterm is participating organization.
    
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  Infoterm was founded in 1971 by contract with UNESCO and is a non-governmental organization in official relations with the organization.
• Austrian Commission for UNESCO (ÖUK)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  Infoterm enjoys the status of a WHO Collaborating Centre (WHOCC) for Health & Biomedical Terminology of the World Health Organization.
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  
  • Infoterm is an Organization in cooperation with ISO.
    Since 1 January 2009, Infoterm has Liaison status with ISO and contributes effectively to the work of ISO/TC 37 and its subcommittees.
    
  • Information Network of the International Organization for Standardization (ISONET)
    Infoterm is Associate Member of ISONET.
  • Twinned Secretariat of ISO/TC 37
    
• European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
  
  • CEN/WS/eCAT Multilingual electronic cataloguing and classification in eBusiness
  • CEN/CDFG Cultural Diversity Focus Group
  • CEN/TC 304 Information and Communication Technologies - European Localization Requirements
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
  Infoterm is a Participant Member of the Language Industry Standards Special Interest Group (LIS ISG).
  

Affiliates are those institutions, associations or enterprises which are not primarily concerned with terminology but support Infoterm’s objectives.

• John Benjamins Publishing Company
• European Institute for Technical Documentation and Information Management (EuroDoc)