About NZSTI
NZSTI is a nationally representative body of translators and interpreters that provides a networking forum for its members, represents members' interests, and promotes continued professional development, quality standards and awareness of the profession within government agencies and the wider community.
This site helps connect NZSTI member translators and interpreters together with each other, as well as with potential clients.
Benefits:
Regional branches of the society are established in centres where there is a sufficiently large group of professional translators and interpreters to warrant this. The affairs of the regional branches are administered by a locally elected executive which works under the umbrella of the national council. Currently, there are three regional branches in the three main centres of New Zealand, the Auckland branch, the Wellington branch and the Canterbury branch in Christchurch.
In addition to regular branch meetings in the main centres, the society also holds an annual conference, typically in one of the main centres. These forums and seminars ensure our members are up-to-date with the latest news and developments in the fields of translation and interpreting.
NZSTI Members, Affiliates and Observers also receive a free subscription to our journal "Word for Word". This periodical contains feature articles pertinent to all practitioners, as well as reports on current activities around New Zealand and the world.
NZSTI also maintains an online directory. The contact details, the working languages and the specialities of each Member and each Affiliate are included in this ever-expanding directory. Its target readership includes the main users of interpreting and translation services in both the public and private sectors in New Zealand and overseas.
Suitably qualified persons may become members in one of the following categories: Member, Affiliate, or Observer. Other membership categories are Fellow, Retired Member, and Honorary member. Each Member and each Fellow receives a membership certificate upon admission to the Society.
The NZSTI is formally affiliated with The Sign Language Interpreters Association of New Zealand (SLIANZ). SLIANZ is a national professional association which aims to represent and advance the field of sign language interpreting. For more information please contact their national secretary at SLIANZ, PO Box 6090, Wellesley St, Auckland, New Zealand.
If you would like to know more about NZSTI, or if you have any comments or suggestions, please contact the national secretary (click here).
About the Logo:
The overall triangular shape of the logo reflects the widespread use of the triangle to represent the position of the translator or interpreter at one corner of a triangle, with the speaker and listener (or writer and reader in the case of translation) of the source language and target language respectively, at the other two corners.
The two faces of different colours represent the task of the translator or interpreter in facilitating in communication between peoples of different language and cultural backgrounds.
The use of black and white as two of the major colours not only represents the bringing together of diverse languages and cultures, but also represents clarity and accuracy.
The green colour in the logo is representative of New Zealand's clean, green image. The Maori name of the Society reflects our unique New Zealand heritage. The name itself is a taonga (treasure) of the Society, and was generously offered to the society as a gift from Professor Timoti Karetu, Maori Language Commissioner and honorary member of NZSTI.
