"The Informationist," which was published this week by Crown, is a globe-trotting thriller centered on Vanessa Munroe, a multilingual expert in information gathering who is hired by a Houston businessman to track down his missing daughter in Africa.
We used a consensus panel process adapted to a multilingual group of experts.
At a recent outsourcing conference in Budapest organised by Ms Gulyás's firm, a bunch of consultants and providers swirled round Jackie Raybould, a director of SCC, a $3 billion company that is considering moving its expert multilingual IT support for big international companies from call-centres in London and southern Europe to somewhere like Hungary.
He is a master of disguise, multilingual, and an expert in espionage, often gathering information under the identity of Matches Malone, a notorious gangster.
Multilingual and bilingual expert panels conducted the back translations.
The issues and debates we face are increasingly complex and politicians will soon have to be multilingual and multicultural scientific experts as well, if they want to understand and not accept the word of experts as gospel.
The complaint said Mr Hui had portrayed himself as a logistics expert while multilingual Ms Huan portrayed herself as a schoolteacher.
Only after exhaustive interrogation of those captured in the raid did the Americans realise that the bespectacled, slim-shouldered Arab in the hospital bed was the multilingual, combat-trained computer and communications expert who has been the acting head of al-Qaeda outside Afghanistan.
Take the case of a multilingual system, where a knowledge-based approach has to involve experts from all the languages involved.
Finally, the experts also identified insufficient cultural competencies, a shortage of multilingual staff and a lack of information material in different languages as contributing to this barrier.
