3. Vicky Bowman- Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business
4. Nay Lin Soe- Myanmar Independent Living Initiative
5. Wai Phio Myint- Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business
The first board meeting was held in June 2016 at the Sule Shangrila Hotel in Yangon. All but one board member,
Vicky Bowman (who then recommended another board member Wai Phio Myint), the IDRC project officer Phet
Sayo, Pranesh Prakash of CIS, the founding members of MIDO (Htaike Htaike Aung, Phyu Phyu Thi, Wai Myo Htut
and Yatanar Htun) and representatives from LIRNEasia (Helani Galpaya, Rohan Samarajiva and Gayani Hurulle)
were present at the board meeting. LIRNEasia’s work in Myanmar was presented to the board, and discussion
ensued.
5. Project outputs and dissemination
5.1 Research outputs
Table 7: Research outputs
Research reports
Galpaya, H., Zainudeen, A. &
Suthaharan, P. (2015) A
baseline survey of ICT and
knowledge access in Myanmar
Zainudeen, A. & Galpaya, H.
(2015) Mobile phones, internet
and gender in Myanmar
Research report
based on baseline
quantitative study
Complete
Annex 1
Research report
based on
qualitative study
Complete
Annex 2
Cihon, P. & Galpaya, H. (2017)
Navigating the walled garden:
Free and subsidized data use in
Myanmar
Research report
based on
qualitative
research
Complete
Annex 3
Zuhyle, S. (2016) Quality of
Service Experienced by Mobile
Broadband users in Myanmar
Research report
based on first
round of QoSE
testing
Complete
Annex 4
Ready for peer
review
Note the paper
was written in the
current cycle
though the
research was done
under the previous
grant/cycle
Draft
Annex 5
Publications
Parekh, P., Ling, R., Zainudeen,
A. & Galpaya, H. (2017)
Rationalization of mobile
telephony by small-scale
entrepreneurs in Myanmar.