Category Archives: ANTS

ants-interpretation.org: the new domain is now active!

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It was active before, just not published yet and after so much time has passed I realized I’m too slow at throwing contents and create the new website, so I finally correct the redirect issues I had, and now both www.ants-interpretation.org and ants-interpretation.org point to this blog, gently hosted by the French hosting service provider poivron.org, which original address is ants.pimienta.org.

TECH: It’s a temporary masquerade redirect, which means it is not a permanent solution (I will build the new website at some point!) and it masquerades the domain name on your address bar, so unless you wrote exactly ants.pimienta.org to reach this place, you’ll always see www.ants-interpretation.org.

All very technical and uninteresting for most of you reading, but hei that’s part of building your project’ website yourself, you’ll need to learn a lot of necessary skills.

Cheers!

axel

[ANTS] List of Languages in the Interpreters Database

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The list that follows is the complete List of Languages for which ANTS provides Simultaneous Interpretation, taken from my Interpreters Database.

ANTS Database counts with more than 1.100 Interpreters located all over the world, working both in remote and in-person, which I collected during the events I participated since 2009.

The list accounts for (more than) 80 languages from all over the world 🙂

Check it out!

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ANTS @ Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising Conference 2026 (Lyon, France, 2-3 May 2026)

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ANTS has been confirmed for this assignment in the Conference Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising 2026, to be held in Lyon (FR), 2-3 May 2026.

Previous editions including Amsterdam 2023 and Barcelona 2025 were held in English only, while for Brussels 2024 edition, ANTS has provided the infrastructure for simultaneous interpretation in English and French and sound systems for the plenary and workshop rooms, in two different venues.

“Commercial advertising plays a key role in shaping public perceptions of the world’s most destructive companies. Fossil fuel giants, airlines, fast fashion, junk food and Big Tech use marketing and PR strategies to normalize their harmful business models, greenwash their responsibility and flood public media spaces with half-truths, distractions and silence on key issues, as global inequality and climate breakdown accelerate.“

For this year conference, ANTS will be providing the interpreters and technology needed to held this event simultaneously in two languages, French and English, with a similar set-up as Brussels 2024.

“This conference brings together people who refuse that silence. Expect to meet campaigners from all over Europe, from organizations including R?sistance ? l?agression publicitaire (FR), Fossil Free Advertising (NL), Adfree Cities (UK), Berlin Busters Social Club (DE), Cittadini Sostenibili (IT), Geneve Zero Pub (CH), Klimakultur (NO), ZERO (PRT), Badvertising (UK), Extinction Rebellion (NL), Sortir de la Pub (CH), Werbefrei (AT), Fossil Free Football (NL), Folk mot Fossilmakta (NO), Fossil Free Politics (EU) and more.”

You can find more info about the event on the page subvertisers-international where you can also register to participate in the conference.

See you in Lyon !

Update 31/03/2026
The program is out !

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Interpreters Coordination for Arche Noah seed policy workshop

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It is with great happiness that I announce another ANTS collaboration with Arche Noah, as I’m in charge of coordinating the Interpreters for their online seed policy workshop happening the 16th of October 2025.

We will have 2 booths, FR and DE, with an EN Pivot language.

The event is organized by Arche Noah, Association for the Conservation and Development of Cultivated Plant Diversity, an organization based in Austria working on cultivated biodiversity and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The topic to be discussed will be the current state of discussions in the EU Council on the new seed legislation.

” Together, we’ll explore how to get involved in the reform process and advocate for more diversity in the seed law. Furthermore, we will present the Good Food 4All European Citizens’ Initiative and possibilities to get involved “

https://www.geneva-academy.ch/event/all-events/detail/530-the-eu-reform-on-seed-marketing-the-right-to-seeds-and-the-eci-on-the-right-to-food

ANTS confirmed for the LUSH Spring Prize 2025

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It’s with immense joy that I announce we’ve been confirmed for the LUSH Spring Prize.

The LUSH Spring Prize it’s a charity event in which more than 200.000 pounds are donated to projects that works on different topics around earth regeneration. 2025 edition will be held in Poole, UK from 26th to 30th of May.

Personally I’ve been providing Interpretation services for the previous 4 editions, happening every 2 years, one of which was online during lock-down, so I’m particularly happy that for this year again the organizers of the Spring Prize (Ethical Consumer Research Association) has decided to go with me again, this time with the ANTS project.

We will be Providing Interpretation Technology, Sound System and Interpreters Coordination for the 2 rooms in Kingston and the Official Ceremony in the Lighthouse Theater.

More info coming soon !

ANTS booths are the Plexicabins: Wooden-Plexiglass foldable table-top cabins, environmentally friendly and easily transportable

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We usually move around with a small van, as we take in great seriousness our ecological footprint. The commercial company in the Interpretation world moves around with big truck full of very expensive equipment, at no reach for small organizations and collectives of the social movement area.

When it comes to the sound proofing of the booths, of course they don’t offer the same characteristics as the full-on soundproofed booths normally used in the Interpretation world, for which you need to move a truck in order to transport them – increasing incredibly not only the ecological footprint, but also the overall costs.

We consider enough to use those Plexicabins – as we call them – more environmentally friendly in comparison to the sound-proofed booths. Of course there’s need to organize the room in a way that the voice of the interpreters doesn’t reach too much the ears of the close-by participants – which are using headphones to receive the Interpretation in the language they choose, by the way.

The Booths1 that we use – the Plexicabins – were designed more than a decade ago by a pioneer collective project that I co-founded in 2009. Their designs are open-source and they were copied and adapted by dozens of other collectives and organizations all over the world.

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ANTS new domain and contact emails

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ANTS Team is very proud to announce that after little more than 6 months of official activity, due to the ever growing requests of Simultaneous Interpretation Services from different Social Movements events all over the globe and online, we have finally bought our own web domain:

https://www.ants-interpretation.org/

The current website will be moved very soon at the new direction, while the new contact emails are already active:

info@ants-interpretation.org : this is the general contact email to get in touch with the ANTS Team to request info about our services, technology, way of working, pricing and so on and to request our services for an upcoming event.

interpreters@ants-interpretation.org : this is the coordination email that we use to organize the interpreters for an event. It is also used by hundreds of Interpreters to contact us for different purposes: updating their database entries, asking for technology to cover for Interpretation in events they work in, ecc.

See you in the next Conference 😉 !

axel
20/12/2024

ANTS confirmed for Arche Noah online webinar on Seeds Patents, 19 December 2024

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We are very happy to announce that we’ve been confirmed for another webinar with Arche Noah about Seeds Patents, happening on December 19th 2024. Duration of the webinar will be 2 hours.

We’ll be providing Simultaneous Interpretation from and into FR, EN and DE.

The event is organized by Arche Noah, an organization based in Austria working on cultivated biodiversity and the topic to be discussed will be the Impact of Seeds Patents on Farmers. It is not a public webinar, but has the target group of people working in farmers’ movements and NGOs working on patents/GMOs/agriculture policy in Europe.

” Patents on plants and seeds have always been controversial, linked to the advent of biotechnology and its increased use in agriculture. In contrast to plant breeders’ rights, plant patents cannot be confined to a single variety as a rule of thumb, and thus cover multiple varieties. 

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The webinar will start by taking stock of existing patents in agriculture, examining what types of patents are granted (“patentability”) and the prerogatives that are attached to them (“scope of protection”). “

Update 20 December 2024

The Interpreters selected for this online event were:

FR-EN Booth: Marcella Segre and Sedef Atam

DE-EN Booth: Sophia Erben and Interpreter 4

Thanks to all the interpreters for their solidarity participation !

ANTS confirmed for WEAll online workshop, 12th and 26th November 2024

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We are very happy to announce that we’ve bee confirmed to coordinate Simultanoues Interpretation for 2 online workshops happening on November 12th and 26th.

The workshops are organized by WEAll and will be about the Future Generations and Governance of the Commons Economic initiatives, respectively.

We’ll be having PTbr <> EN in the main room as well as in one breakout room.

It’s the first time we collaborate with WEAll after sometime we’ve been in contact with each other, so I can say that we’re very exited about it!