BITcon Call for Papers

FYI: 

 

Sorry for the late 
notice - CfP closes November 4.

 

Regards,

 

Mary

 

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Mary P McRae

OASIS 

Manager of TC 
Administration

email:  
 

web: www.oasis-open.org 

phone: 603.232.9090

cell: 
603.557.7985

 

http://www.internationalization-conference.org/bitconasia/bitconasia_cfp.html

 

BITcon© is the first conference that brings together experts on the 
ever-changing dynamics of the business of internationalization and localization 
with the thought leaders of rapidly evolving technologies. Managers and Web, 
engineering, and localization specialists will learn how to incorporate best 
practices into business operations and plan for successful economical 
modernization of their applications, processes and tools. Each BITcon© 
conference focuses on different topics and regions.

This conference will focus on internationalization 
business, technology, and education for the explosive East, South, and Southeast 
Asian markets. It will deal with key issues with developing products for Asian 
markets, plus the burgeoning field of taking advanced products developed in Asia 
and targeting them at large markets in North America and Europe.

We invite you to submit speaking proposals for 
consideration to the BITcon© Asia program. We welcome visionary views, 
contrarian thoughts, successful and unsuccessful experiences, design 
recommendations, and updates on standards, practices, management principles, and 
technology.

Help shape the future of internationalization and 
localization in Asia by submitting proposals for papers, tutorials, workshops, 
case studies, and keynote lectures for consideration to the Business of 
Internationalization and Technology Conference ©Asia (BITcon©Asia). BITcon©Asia 
will bring together well-known experts and attendees from around the world to 
discuss key issues and solutions of business internationalization and 
localization in Asia. Join us for this premier event of its kind.

Meeting highlights: 

• Pre-conference tutorials and summit 

• Plenary sessions by experts
• I18n and Unicode Practitioner© Track
• Reverse internationalization - n81i©
• Globalization business practices©

Some suggested topics for 
submission: 
• New standards, practices, management principles, and 
technology in internationalization and localization.
• Local standards for 
character encoding GB18030, HKSCS, how to support them, character conversion 
issues, and encoding detection.
• Using Unicode or similar tools to meet the 
needs of Asian languages.
• Design considerations of Asian script support for 
non-Arabic speakers.
• Design issues surrounding multilingual web sites.
• 
Offering and implementing web services globally.
• Best solutions for solving 
language technologies, e.g., parsing Asian languages.
• Translation tools 
that work well with Asian languages, such as XLIFF.
• Effective development 
environments for global services.
• Regional differences in business 
practices by market.
• Products developed for Japanese, Chinese or Korean 
markets versus the reverse-localization of western products for Asia.

More suggested topics.

Submission deadline: 

November 4, 2005

Submit your proposals here. 

BITcon© Asia c/o Global Meeting 
Services, Inc.
10914 Glenda Ct. 
San Diego, CA 92126 USA 
Tel: 
1-858-689-4844 | Fax: 1-858-689-4944 |