organization, and secondly the policy makers, regulators and civil society in Myanmar who can influence ICT policy. LIRNEasia’s finance experts spent a week in Yangon to conduct financial training for MIDO’s finance department in April 2016. MIDO’s communications officer has worked extensively with the LIRNEasia to organize dissemination events and courses, and plans are underway to conduct further training on this front. Two courses titled ‘Social media and ICTs for governance: E-gov for parliamentarians’ were conducted in July 2016. 20 members of the Lower and Upper houses of the Union Parliament attended the first course. The second course was carried out over two days within the premises of the Yangon Regional Parliament, recording an attendance of over 80 parliamentarians on each day. Work on policy advocacy has commenced in selected areas. During this reporting period, LIRNEasia addressed the improvement of ICT infrastructure by submitting responses to policy documents including the draft Telecommunications Masterplan and a consultation paper regarding the allocation of spectrum frequencies in early 2016. In a visit to Myanmar in early 2016, the team from LIRNEasia, MIDO and CIS (the Center for Internet and Society, India, a named partner institution in this project) started work towards catalysing ICT access for the differently abled people of Myanmar, by consulting with multiple experts who are interested in enabling wider access to digital content for the blind. At LIRNEasia’s invitation a leading expert in the development of software solutions for the blind flew to Yangon and met with key stakeholders – progress is being made in identifying and resolving errors since his visit. Steps are also being taken to promote the development of content accessible by the blind.