[PradeetPatel]

Government put their national interest ahead of NGO organisations should not come as a surprise to anyone.

This reads like a failing part on the organisers to manage such risk, and decided to kick up a stink about it instead of implementing a fallback strategy.

[eduction]

They were not told of any issues until 8 days before the event, this week, after talking to government officials since 2024.

What would your “fallback” be, eight days out? Very curious.

[semiquaver]

They weren’t told of any issues because there weren’t any issues until the Chinese government started applying pressure to Zambia.

[PradeetPatel]

Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish.

It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.

[eduction]

It's Friday and the conference is Tuesday. Half their people, it sounds like, at least, are on the ground in Zambia already.

You'd take a conference a year in the making and shift it online over a weekend from your hotel room in a developing country? No you would not. I don't blame them for not doing that.

[cubefox]

It was actually less than eight days out before they knew they were cancelled. It's hard to do something in so little time.

[peyton]

Fallback would be doing

> What the government wanted from us in order to lift the postponement

[eduction]

Take away someone's rights for your rights conference, what could possibly go wrong.