Introduction According to the website of the International Trade Administration organization, following the military coup on February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s education sector is facing unprecedented challenges. Nearly five million students are unable to return to school. Due to the government’s control, parents no longer send their children to schools and instead teach them online. Some […]
Fueled for Change: My Adventure with the Advocacy Assembly’s Internet Shutdown Fellowship
I got an email from Laura Schwartz-Henderson on August 8th, 2023, kickstarting my journey with the Advocacy Assembly’s Internet Shutdown Fellowship. I’d tossed in my application on July 15th, the very last day possible. So, imagine my excitement when I found out I was number 20 out of 1040 applicants—putting me right at the top […]
Who will fill the gap of media literacy in Myanmar?
Recently I learnt that millions of SIM cards would be sold by Myanmar telecommunications services companies, Telenor and Oredoo. For most countries, this is not newsworthy. But for Myanmar, it’s massive. Up until May 2011 a non-web enabled SIM card cost a Burmese citizen US$3000. In 2013, just 6.7% of Myanmar citizens had home internet […]
Just a website which is trying to reinvent the world’s education system
One of the websites that utterly inspires me is www.khanacademy.org. It’s just an easily navigated educational website. But it provides a world-class education for anyone, anywhere completely free and without registering. It has many good features. The best two features I found out about the website that can deliver over 300 million lessons on it, […]
A good website for the webmasters
One of the best websites for the young webmasters is w3schools.com. It’s great because you can learn from the beginner levels to the expert levels. You choose a client side language and then learn from its examples in each chapter and you can edit into the code just on its web pages. It has good […]