What is likely to be one of the more critical meetings of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in recent times will be staged virtually from March 28 to April 1.
The unsurprising decision, taken against the backdrop of the still rampaging COVID-19 pandemic and the requisite precautions that have, for more than a year now, impacted on the communications setting employed in the staging of key international meetings, once again robs a key forum of what remains the preferred communication setting for optimising the effectiveness of interaction on key developmental issues.