The following next steps are being planned in the short-term:
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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:
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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.