The following next steps are being planned in the short-term: - Undertaking of GIS map studies and Universal service scoping, including the review of existing initiatives Organising of the next stakeholder workshop in January 2017 to present a scoping report, followed by workshop on proposed universal service strategy in March 2017 Conducting a workshop on detailed pilot project design in the first quarter of 2017 Update from A4AI-Myanmar Coalition Data and Research Working Group: - Identifying indicators and gaps in existing telecoms data; plan to coordinate with the Central Statistical Office to identify data gaps in their practice. Advocate for collecting new sets of data required for regulatory function Plan to participate in digital gender gap audit Creating ToR to hire a consultant to help identify the data gaps that prevail in the data collection practice of the various public sector entities Infrastructure Development and Sharing Working Group Working toward a number of outputs: - Study on lease registration protection - Change-of-use process that would allow infrastructure development on farm land - Uniform building permit process imminent for infrastructure development and certain recommendations to PTD for ‘objective’ investigations and for ‘objective’ decisions when disputes are faced - Production of generator noise guidelines after consultations with parties involved - Guidelines for using public sector properties and for the concerns on EMF - Explore possibility of possibilities of developing white papers for telecom development in a) protected areas and b) public infrastructure sharing in urban areas.