As noted in my last reply to Fouad (we seem to have written these replies in parallel), I think that this is an issue that needs to be addressed, but I don't think it is one that we need to take up with the CFO. Alan At 22/07/2010 09:35 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

The existence of an emergency contact number is just that -- for emergencies. If you'd note from the spreadsheets that Alan sends out to all travellers, even us rich-country folk have roaming turned off when travelling. An on-site emergency number can be dialled by a hotel concièrge, other ICANN staff, police or helpful locals. Or you could send an SMS to it, which is much cheaper than a call. (One possible recommendation is that the emergency number ought to be local to the host country ... at least one travel staff phone should have a local number, so that you don't have to call California from Kenya to find someone in the next room. Alan, could you possibly build that into your comments?)