Founded in 1990, LISA is the premier non-profit organization for the GILT (Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, and Translation) business community. Over 400 leading IT manufacturers and services providers, along with industry professionals representing corporations with an international business focus, have helped establish LISA's best practice guidelines and language-technology standards for enterprise globalization.

LISA serves as a nexus between the many organizations engaged in helping businesses to become global enterprises. This includes customers, governments, technical and industry-specific standards organizations, research and consulting firms, language technology developers and service providers.

For more information on LISA, visit http://www.lisa.org

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is a fully representative, non-profit, international industry association for the translation, internationalization, localization, and globalization industry. The association gives members a common forum to discuss issues, create innovative solutions, promote the industry, and offer clients unique, collaborative value.

http://www.gala-global.org

Founded in 2002, The Association of Language Companies (ALC) is a unique national trade organization that represents businesses providing translation, interpretation, localization and language training services. The function of this association is to deliver timely information on the best business practices, to provide members the opportunity to participate in a collaboration of ideas among experienced peer professionals and to raise awareness of the translation and localization industry.

For more information on ALC, visit
http://www.alcus.org/