Technology: Friend or Foe for Women of Myanmar giving women a stronger voice in their communities, their government and at the global level. There is a growing body of evidence on the benefits of ICTs for women’s empowerment, through increasing their access to credit, quality healthcare and education for all, and other human development opportunities, such as women’s fuller participation in the political process. Recognizing this, the United Nations has put ICTs at the center of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - target 5b calls for enhancing the use of enabling technology, in particular, ICTs to promote the empowerment of women (UN, 2015). The evolution of ICTs in the last 25 years has been unprecedented in history. While ICT may potentially encourage online violence against women in forms such as cyberbullying, the article about “breaking through the silicon wall” (Huyer & Nuñez, 2022) underlines the promising paths and opportunities that ICT can provide for women and underrepresented groups to address inequalities and marginalization in some contexts, such as the use of ICT for increasing productivity, promoting economic independence or for gender justice. Some promising opportunities have been documented, for instance, using social media through facilitating women’s collective action during the Arab Spring (2011); through hashtag activism (2017) #MeToo which calls out for ending impunity. Recent years have seen digital spaces becoming powerful arenas for feminists to organize women’s movements and digital advocacy in combating violence against women (Williams, 2015). ICTs have been used effectively to foster awareness and to provide positive information, such as GBV helplines and a safe place for survivors to discuss their experiences or seek help (Clark-Parsons, 2018). ICTs offer the potential for innovative social interaction and information and communication work, including peer-to-peer and bottom-up processes undertaken by women to change patriarchal structures. Feminists and women’s rights organizations have pioneered strategic uses of ICTs in unprecedented ways for knowledge sharing, networking, movement building, and strengthening women’s participation in the political process and advocacy. 1.2. What’s happening (to women) in Myanmar? Since the February 2021 military coup, the military junta-led State Administration Council (SAC) not only poses direct threats to women’s and girls’ physical safety but also threatens to roll back hard-won women’s rights and gender equality gains over the past decade. Despite the risks and constant fear of arrest, women played a leading 12