Myanmar tech news
January 2023 round-up
With the military coup in Myanmar, the country’s tech and startup space is obviously unable to function. In terms of general Myanmar tech news, however, the National Unity Government in exile is making moves into cryptocurrency as a source of financing.
Note: January tends to be a ‘quiet’ month in English-language coverage of Asia’s tech startup space, hence this update’s brevity.
And for our other editions, spanning daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly updates on Asia’s technology spaces, here’s an outline.
NED: Smart Cities and Democratic Vulnerabilities
- Myanmar’s government-in-exile raises $100M to topple military junta, with sights on initial coin offering and cryptocurrency at the centre of finance plan
- Myanmar coup, surveillance & e-payments: “…authorities instructed electronic payment companies to verify user identities and keep records. Certain services now require ID for every transaction.”
- Need To Know Now — Need To Know Now, Jan 28th: Fertilizer, Myanmar, AI, EVs and cyberwarfare
Recorded Future: Chinese Cybercrime in Neighboring Countries
More of Asia’s tech news headlines
The monthly collections listed by country, above, are drawn from our daily Asia tech news updates, which go out on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and via mobile app.
We also deliver weekly updates in newsletter formats, via LinkedIn and Substack; and each of those also provides our tech newsletters in web format, for reading online.
Beyond these, we also produce quarterly collections, gathering a jurisdiction’s technology news into 3-monthly digests each year.
Accenture: Digital Assets – Unclaimed Territory in Asia
