Meanwhile the Safe and Sustainable programme director, Jeremy Glyde, told the BBC that despite being invited to join the steering group as an observer, no-one from Northern Ireland took up the invitation.
As for the idea that being involved in the tech scene as an investor makes him a better informed observer, one might as well say that an energy reporter who consults for Halliburton and BP is better serving his readers through the insights he acquires moonlighting.
Standing in the plaza and looking up at the massive facades of the buildings and the elevated walkways and escalators that connect them, theobserver has a strange feeling of being indoors.
The U.S labeling law prohibits any tuna caught using this method in this part of the ocean from being labeled dolphin safe even if an observer certifies that no dolphins were killed.
This is being done by having an observer in an intensive care unit monitor and record on a computer the communication between patients and medical staff and relatives.