In 2004, the same year Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates, an 18-year-old in Yangon was hard at work on Myanmar’s first smartphone app. Their lives couldn’t have been ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of tech and social progress in Asia. When entrepreneurs Chit Hnin and Chit Moe traveled around ...

Financial inclusion is a topic of growing importance in countries such as Myanmar, where advances in tech are rapidly changing the dynamics in how people access financial products. As I wrote in 2016, ...

Myanmar residents are currently relying on an offline messaging app since the country's military has disrupted internet traffic. Sources confirmed that Bridgefy has been downloaded more than 600,000 ...

Supporters of the. military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) wave the party flags and cheer from their motorbikes during an election campaign for next month's general election, ...

A donor-funded election app designed to provide information to Myanmar voters has come under fire for its potential to inflame racism and religious nationalism ahead of elections on November 8. The ...

(Reuters) - Myanmar’s election commission has released a smartphone app criticised over its use of a derogatory label for Rohingya Muslims despite entreaties by its European Union funders to remove ...

A free app on farmer San San Hla's smartphone is her new weapon in the war against the dreaded stem borer moth that blighted her rice paddy in southern Myanmar for the last two years. As she watches ...

An anti-coup protester raises his arm in front of a crowd during a candlelight rally in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday. (AP) Alyson Chadwick is the digital campaigns strategist for No Business With ...

ProtonVPN, a popular VPN choice for iOS users, claims that Apple is blocking "important updates" to its iOS app following a United Nations recommendation for the app to be used amid an internet ...

For six weeks last October and November, just before Myanmar held its landmark elections, I joined a team of design ethnographers in the countryside interviewing forty farmers about smartphones. A ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A Sweden-based organization that promotes democracy and assists in organizing elections said Thursday it is not responsible for a smartphone application’s inclusion of a ...