[WSIS CS-Plenary] Possible problem with Audiovisual services in Tunis

Fri Nov 11 12:48:47 GMT 2005

Dear All,

If you have problems with audiovisual equipment, I will have a beamer
(projector) with me. I will be staying at the Iberostar Belisaire Hotel from
15 until 19 November. I'lam will have a parallel event on 17 November (La
Goulette, 11:00-13:00), "Panel to Introduce New Perspectives: Arab
Palestinian Media Rights in Israel".

Heidi

Heidi Paredes

Development Director

I'lam, Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel

POB 101, 16000 Nazareth

Tel. +972-4-6001370, Fax. +972-4-6001418

www.ilamcenter.org 

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Tunis

Lest you think this some sort of development scam, these are approximately
equivalent to the prices which the Radisson Hotel in La Jolla, CA charges.  
DeeDee

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On 11/10/05, William Drake  <mailto:wdrake at ictsd.ch> <wdrake at ictsd.ch>
wrote:

Hello,

This may be of concern to people organizing parallel events in Tunis.  If
you were assuming that the conference host would provide microphones, a
computer, projector, and screen to display Power Point presentations or
whatever, you might need to think again.  After several rounds of
communication with the authorities, a colleague who's organizing the
ICT4Peace event was informed that all A/V requests are being handled by one
private French contractor called GL Events which charges rather hefty fees.
For a two hour session, ICT4P was quoted as follows:

Audiovisual Engineer, at Overtime Rate (i.e. a person to turn on the
projector for you and then sit there)
200 euros

DIY

Projector, 2 hours
600 euros

Screen
100 euros

kingsize flat bedsheet!

So that's 900 euros for two hours.  USAID is organizing a four hour event,
and was quoted 1,800 euros.

For that you can but a beamer that you can use 500 times over!

Well worth the investment.

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Cheers,

McTim
nic-hdl:      TMCG
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In
practice there is"
Yogi Berra
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