Portable Equipment / I14
"Shrinking technologies" have furnished us with portable offices. It is now quite feasible to walk out of an airport carrying almost all you need to produce a high-quality interactive Bulletin (see Case Study 7: InterSectoral Dialogue Meeting).
Advantages of portable equipment include:
- simplicity with freight and handling;
- shortened setup time;
- flexibility (eg. with minimum effort, effect a decision to move the computer data entry to the back of the conference hall if this works better;
- in situations with conventional equipment, portables are valuable backups;
- by bringing one's own portable equipment, familiarity with the machines is assured.
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