Based in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, IAPTI was established on 30 September 2009. Created by a group of professional language mediators as a vehicle for promoting ethical practices in translation and interpretation and providing a forum for discussing problems typical of the globalized world, such as
crowdsourcing,
outsourcing, bad
rates and other abuse. Technological-ethical issues are also important to IAPTI, such as the exploitation of language professionals as cheap
proofreaders of
machine-translated texts. and
marketing specialist. IAPTI applied for registration as a civil association in the
City of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Its legal registration under the name "International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters" took a long time to process with the Office of the Argentine Inspector-General for Justice. On 23 February 2017 it was announced that the Inspector-General for Justice has finally approved IAPTI as a civil association. According to its bylaws, the Association is directed and managed by a Board of Directors made up of the six following officers: President, Vice President, Secretary General, Treasurer, two Voting Members and two Alternate Voting Members. In November 2016, a number of staff members stepped down from their positions, including its former Ethics Committee president, claiming IAPTI's legal status controversy, unaccountability and lack of transparency of IAPTI, as well as its failure to hold elections since its establishment. As a response, IAPTI’s board informed that several modifications of its bylaws had been made to accommodate the requirements of the Argentine regulatory authority, and dismissed the claims as baseless, unfounded charges by some of its former members. Some months later, the Argentine regulator finally approved IAPTI. ==Events==