Mary Callahan on Information Politics in Myanmar
Myanmar (Burma) has spent decades under authoritarian rule. It was isolated politically and economically from the rest of the world and home to one of the world’s longest civil wars. In the last few...
View Article8/21 Event – Update Myanmar: UW Fellows on Myanmar’s Transition
This summer, the University of Washington is pleased to be hosting 25 of Myanmar’s leaders from government, civil society, political parties, ethnic communities, libraries, and the media. The fellows...
View Article9/4 Event – UW Myanmar Fellows Looking Forward: Information Strategies for a...
This summer, the University of Washington hosted 25 of Myanmar’s leaders from government, civil society, political parties, ethnic communities, libraries, and the media. The fellows took part in a...
View ArticleMyanmar leaders develop information strategies for societies in transition
Over the summer, TASCHA and the UW’s Jackson School hosted 25 of Myanmar’s leaders from government, civil society, political parties, ethnic communities, libraries, and the media for a five-week...
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Myanmar: Temples and Towers
By Dan Arnaudo Incredible temples range across Myanmar; from the magisterial Shwe Dagon in Yangon to Bagan’s sprawling complexes they show the country’s rich Buddhist art, culture and heritage. The...
View ArticleTranslating technology terms into Burmese
Earlier this summer, Thomas Fuller of the New York Times published a memo from Yangon lamenting the lack of political vocabulary in the Burmese language, in which words like “democracy,” “institution,”...
View ArticleInformation Symposium to address challenges presented by Myanmar’s digital...
On January 28-29th, 2016, an Information Symposium in Yangon, Myanmar will bring together hundreds of representatives from all sectors to discuss open and transparent public information in Myanmar’s...
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