[governance] 20th century arrives in Geneva

[Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch]

Norbert,

we tried and often exercised the power-strip approach (sometimes in long daisy-chains) in the Palais des Nations lots of times in the WSIS and successor processes, only to be cut off (and sometimes chased out of rooms) by the police, for violations of the fire code. Further, the police told us that the cords could make people trip in case the room had to be evacuated fast, another violation of fire and other safety codes.

Alejandro Pisanty


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Desde: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] en nombre de Norbert Bollow [nb at bollow.ch]
Enviado el: martes, 05 de marzo de 2013 11:06
Hasta: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Asunto: Re: [governance] 20th century arrives in Geneva

I had written:

>> What's the situation with regard to electric power in the older
>> conference rooms? Has that issue been fixed too?

Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at ccianet.org> replied:

> No. That would be a major construction undertaking.

At least at UNESCO in Paris, it was possible to address this issue while
avoiding a major construction undertaking:

At the WSIS+10 review meeting in Paris, some of the conference
rooms had electric power built into the desks, while in other conference
rooms, access to electricity was provided by means of power strips that
were distributed throughout the room.

Greetings,
Norbert


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