Action week for Global Information Sharing (AGIS) 2009

AGIS '09 - Promoting Equality through Language and Cultural Diversity - took place in the University of Limerick (UL), Ireland 21 - 23 September 2009.

The Action week for Global Information Sharing brought together hundreds of volunteer translators, localisation specialists and NGOs from all over the world to address the plague of global information poverty.

The Rosetta Foundation was launched at AGIs '09. The Rosetta Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation (charity) registered in Ireland. It is a spin-off from the University of Limerick's Localisation Research Centre and CNGL. The Rosetta Foundation supports the not-for-profit activities of the localisation and translation communities through the development and deployment of an intelligent translation and localisation platform.

The 14th Internationalisation and Localisation Conference organised by the the LRC, took place on 24-25 September 2009 at the Clarion Hotel, in Limerick City, Ireland. The theme of this year's conference was Localisation in The Cloud and the conference looked at the application of cloud based computing and software as a service concepts to the software localisation industry.