BY: CHANNE SUY
Last
month, my colleague at the iLab Southeast Asia and I were fortunate
enough to attend BarCamp Yangon. This was my second time participating
in the event focused on spreading ICT knowledge throughout the country.
As part of the international network of BarCamp conferences, or rather
“unconferences” as organizers refer to it, people from a variety of
different backgrounds and geographies come together to create
user-generated sessions focused primarily on technology and the web.
While Myanmar is not well known for their technological capacity, they are still responsible for putting on the largest BarCamp events in history. People come from all over the world to participate and I was happy to see lots of international participants (much more than when I was last here in 2011) as well as participants from high tech companies like Google and Firefox. Having such a diverse community allowed me to connect with local Burmese startups as well as both local and international developers and BarCampers.
