January, February & March 2021
Myanmar tech news
Myanmar’s first quarter 2021 tech news round-up gathers the country’s technology and startup-related news headlines from 3 months – January, February and March of 2021.
The quarter’s technology news headlines from Myanmar captured developments in fields including the tech aspects of the military coup, developments in sustainable tourism via the MIST program, offline messaging apps and more.
Items listed are headlines only, hyperlinked, without accompanying text, providing a one-glance overview of Myanmar’s technology news across Q1 2021 along with one-click access to each full online article behind the headlines.
January 2021 | February 2021 | March 2021
Myanmar tech news: March 2021
- Myanmar: YouTube removes 5 military-run TV network channels hosted on its platform
- Myanmar: Vimeo video sharing platform reviewing channel created by MRTV, military-controlled television network after bans by Facebook and Youtube
- ICYMI: South Korea to suspend defence and security exchanges, ban export of arms or other strategic items and reconsider development aid to Myanmar due to military coup
- Myanmar: “…an international community of hackers and pro-democracy tech enablers chimed in to oppose the regime’s bloody crackdown on protesters.”
- Myanmar: A look at how TikTok is making the same mistakes around disinformation and fake news that Facebook has already made in the country
- Download: Analysis of the provisions of the draft Cyber Security law (pdf)
Myanmar tech news: February 2021
- Myanmar: Bridgefy offline messaging app downloads surge to more than 1M after country’s military seized power and temporarily disrupted internet
- Myanmar: Military coup cuts information access further by blocking Twitter and Instagram, adding to existing block on Facebook
- Myanmar: “The Tatmadaw [military junta] sees Facebook as their internet nemesis because it’s the dominant communication channel in the country…”
- Myanmar: Military junta proposes wild cyber law, attacking freedom of expression, data protection and privacy, prompting fears of digital surveillance and persecution
- Myanmar: Facebook limits reach of military junta-connected posts over coup misinformation, and stops taking content removal requests from gov’t
- Myanmar: Facebook removes military’s Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page for repeated violations around incitement of violence and coordinating harm in coup
- MIST program shifts focus to UN SDGs with renaming to Mekong Innovations in Sustainable Tourism, serving Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam
Myanmar tech news: January 2021
- An interview intro to the founder of Momolay media content platform and Kyarley baby products e-commerce platform, on Myanmar’s challenges and opportunities
- ICYMI: The Myanmar Consumer Survey – Poised for take-off, via Deloitte
- An overview of KBZ Bank’s digital activities through 2020, focusing on KBZPay mobile wallet and its use in social aid
- An overview of the country’s edtech sector and selected startups working in education apps, online learning, schools management and more
- ICYMI: Myanmar Mobile Network Experience Report – October 2020
- An overview of how Myanmar could benefit from cryptocurrencies
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