Hi,
I had the chance for a brief chat with this human rights expert I know.
Hereunder her comments
greetings
agnez
- People's computers might be checked at immigration, it has happened
but not often. Just make sure you don't have anything sensitive in
obvious places.
- Go on tourist visa, don't say you come for a conference. Those things
are always way too complicated in these countries, it would only create
more trouble (but then don't take my word for it, discuss it though,
usually I would advise against, but I am not an expert on Vietnam)
- Whether FOSS is not accepted by gvnmt, well, they can't really do
anything against it can they? as, it's not copyrighted .. or is it not
that simple?
- discussing things openly, well it really depends on what you are
discussing. if you are discussing about the right to access on
information and it is mostly framed in terms of software I don't see a
problem,
if you widen your discussion to civil and political rights, I don't
think Vietnam is a good choice. You should count on Intelligence
attending your meeting, and then consider whether that will jeopardize
the Vietnamese participants, and whether that means you cannot have
certain discussions that otherwise you would
- You should ask the Vietnamese participants what they think but they
may not be fully aware of the possible consequences. they organized
already other FOSS meetings, but were there foreigners who are concerned
about human rights?
Vietnamese authorities are very wary of foreigners with political agendas
I talked to Vietnamese last week who do FOSS events, but they don't have
a clue about human rights
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