Archive for February 1st, 2009
No Communications Column this Week
Sunday, February 1st, 2009I’m so darn busy working with technology that I don’t have time to write about it. I should be back on track in time for next week’s column.
Walk a Mile in These Shoes
Sunday, February 1st, 2009Attendees of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, received an invitation from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to ‘an event you will never forget’. The event, called the Refugee Run , is a Disneyland-style re-enactment of life in a refugee camp.
I can’t speak for the guests, but the image of champagne-and-caviar billionaires spending a couple of hours scuffing their loafers with designer dust behind artfully laid out barbed wire before returning to their luxury hotels – well, that is something I won’t soon forget. No matter how hard I try.