At a well attended meeting in Yangon on the 29th of July, Helani Galpaya, together with MIDO’s research lead Phyu Phyu Thi and U Htun Htun of Third Eye, who executed the field research, presented the descriptive statistics from the nation-wide representative-sample survey conducted in February 2015. The results are being released in Nay Pyi Taw today, 30th July.
The presentation slides will be available here shortly.
Presentation of Data in Yangon
Presentation of the Myanmar Translation of “Mobile Communications” by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner
MPs who graced the event
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One on One with the audience
3 Comments
Per Helmersen
Report download link much appreciated.
Tanya
Looking forward to seeing the survey and slides…
Helani
Per, Tanya:
Please see http://lirneasia.net/2015/08/results-of-baseline-survey-of-ict-use-in-myanmar/ for slides, questionnaires etc.
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