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"People, Spaces, Deliberation" was launched in 2008 by the Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) and is now published by the External Affairs Operational Communication of the World Bank. The blog is edited by Sina Odugbemi and Diana Chung.
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It's too late
"So, my question is, given the trend, what is it going to take to get people to listen when they go to these expensive-to-mount global meetings?"
Wifi signal jamming devices.
I think at this point its too late to kill this trend: the social norm has changed.
I remember being laughed at 10 years ago when I predicted that the norms would change so that we would be *expected* to be always contactable, and that people would think it rude if we did not respond to the yanks on our electronic leashes from phonecalls or emails.