Look who's jumping on the telework bandwagon now! U.S. Agencies Surf for Translators A Dearth of Linguists Sends CIA, FBI to Web By John Mintz, Washington Post Staff Writer (November 6, 2003) reports that the FBI and CIA will open the National Virtual Translation Center on Dec. 1, using a virtual workforce of over 300 contractors to translate documents and audiotapes sent to their homes or offices by e-mail.

"Historically we brought linguists to the material, but now we'll get the material to the linguists," the new center's director, Everette Jordan, said in a recent interview. "It means we can move a lot faster."

(link thanks to Lonn Henrichsen)

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