Written by Phyo Thiri Lwin Myanmar is one of the countries where millions of social media users exist like all the other countries. As a result, the growing hate speech over the political points of view has increased due to the low rate of media and information literacy. Before the military coup happened, the inner […]
Category: Blog Posts
NetMission Ambassadors’ blog posts
NetMission Insight: What does ethical technology mean to you?
Written by Jenna Fung Ethics is based on standards of right and wrong that prescribe what one ought to do in terms of rights, obligations, fairness, or specific virtues. (Velasquez et al., 2010) To describe a person who is being ethical generally means someone who is behaving as “right” in a moral sense and following […]
NetMission Insight: Access & Empowerment
Written by Ahnaf Sadat Zakaria ,Guntur Ramadhan,Stephen Arumasi (Edited By Stephen Arumasi, Jenna Fung) Internet Governance (IG) is the way that involves the development and application of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet. It is a globally distributed network comprising many voluntarily interconnected autonomous […]
NetMission Insight: What are Blacklist and Whitelist – A Recent case of Myanmar
Written by Phyo Thiri Lwin (Edited by Jenna Fung) Back in February 2021, there were two nationwide Internet outages in Myanmar. On February 5, the military council started banning social media and messaging apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp by using the blacklist method to users as an immediate response to interrupt international […]
NetMission Insight: Youth’s perspective on regional impacts brought by Myanmar’s coup
Written by Arbi Wijaya (Edited by Jenna Fung) A prosperous and peaceful country is the dream of every resident who lives in it. Peace here refers to the aspects of life that are inherent in state life such as social, economic, political, and cultural aspects. If the fulfillment of these aspects was done properly, it […]