Mike Rowbottom: The IT Crowd ensuring Baku 2015 keeps communicating - despite rogue bonfires

Mike Rowbottom: The IT Crowd ensuring Baku 2015 keeps communicating - despite rogue bonfires

Adrian Corcoran, head of venue technology at the Baku 2015 European Games, saw a nice cartoon the other day. It was a variation on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which expresses human requirements in the form of a triangle, with the most imperative at the base - breathing, food, water, shelter - rising to more esoteric desiderata such as love/belonging, esteem and self-actualisation.