Who buys and controls the CCTV? Back to contents 77 The procurement process in Myanmar is evidently steeped in secrecy and nepotism, with little information about how to use, buy, and maintain technology available in the public domain. Tracing the routes of favouritism and understanding the extent of it can help explain which companies are primed to scale their products across Myanmar, and why. It is also important to document in further detail the lack of transparency and accountability in public procurement that lends itself to nepotism. Even where procurement decisions are demonstrated and explained, there is still room for unilateral and arbitrary decisions, like the public interest exception which was used to circumvent the need for any tender process, in the absence of any provision of law enabling this exemption (see Public procurement process). Students from Yangon Technological University organise a protest to denounce the military coup and call on civil servants to join the Civil Disobedience Movement in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: February 2021, Digital Rights Collective.