The Inttranet is a multilingual portal for and global network of professional interpreters and translators, fully compatible with

ISO 9001 The ISO 9000 family is a set of international standards for quality management systems. It was developed in March 1987 by International Organization for Standardization. The goal of these standards is to help organizations ensure that they meet ...

quality assurance requirements, and was officially inaugurated in October 2002. Its purpose is to provide all the functions required by professional interpreters and

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

s and the users of their services, and to enable access to those services in any language, in accordance with

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ) is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and International secur ...

's "Access to All" program. Launched after two years of development, with input from the heads of the translation departments of UNESCO, the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informall ...

, the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; , CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it is Europe's oldest intergovernmental organisation, represe ...

, the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ...

(freelance section), and professional interpreters and translators from 26 countries, the portal is currently (2006) available in 33 languages, but has been designed to be translated and interoperable in any other. One of the unique features of the Inttranet is the capacity to automatically display member CVs in the language of the visitor to the portal. The portal also includes a multilingual terminology database ( Terminal), compatible with

ISO The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Me ...

12616, designed to store and share specific translation terms used by Inttranet members and their customers. It is capable of displaying the search interface as well as the source and target terms in any three different languages. The Inttranet also comprises an external search system linked to Inttranet CVs that can be hosted as a piece of

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code on any third-party website (Exttranet), thereby constituting a genuinely global ( multilingual) search and display system for users of the services of professional interpreters and translators. The portal was approved for inclusion in the UNESCO Observatory for the Information Society in January 2006.

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