visually impaired persons in Myanmar. 2. Meetings with multiple stakeholders (blind schools, national association, developers) to identify problems pertained to Myanmar text to speech engine. websites to check for WCAG 2.0 compliance General Facilitate the creation of a multi disciplinary advisory committee 1. Project Advisory Committee formed. The first meeting held in June 2016, and subsequent correspondence/interaction taken place. 4.1 Research 4.1.1 Demand side research: Quantitative 4.1.1.1 2015 baseline and 2016 follow-up surveys LIRNEasia, when writing the project proposal, envisaged that it would be able to get additional funding from external sources to fund the 2016 follow-up survey. However, fundraising activities were unsuccessful 13, LIRNEasia was then forced to consider the reallocation of funds from the qualitative research allocated budget to allow for a quantitative survey to be conducted. Since a significant amount of qualitative research was undertaken at minimal cost to LIRNEasia through the joint gender study with GSMA Connected Women, this seemed like a feasible option. Funds for a second round of qualitative research (USD 40,000) were preserved, and USD 60,000 was be reallocated to the quantitative follow-up survey, bringing the total funds for this activity to USD100,000. Even still, this was less than the cost of the baseline survey conducted in 2015, for which LIRNEasia collaborated with Third Eye Co in a cost-and-data-sharing agreement. The high market costs once again prevented LIRNEasia from being able to independently commission a nationally representative follow-up survey to meet the research objectives. Therefore once again, LIRNEasia has been offered a low-cost opportunity which allowed us to insert a number of questions in Third Eye’s maiden national quarterly panel survey. Table 4: Key differences between the two surveys 2015 baseline survey 13 2016 follow-up survey The following organizations were approached by LIRNEasia for funds for this purpose: Telenor Myanmar, Ooreedo, ISOC Asia Pacific