| Title | We Come from an Activist Background |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Htaike Htaike Aung (author) |
| Sumandro Chattapadhyay(author) | |
| Copyright | Htaike Htaike Aung |
| Publisher | meson press |
| Published on | 2015-07-01 |
| Page range | pp. 55–62 |
| Language | English (Original) |
Htaike Htaike Aung is the Programme Manager at Myanmar ICT for Development Organisation, or MIDO. She is interested in Internet culture, and has been involved in Internet propagation events in Myanmar since 2006. She is a computer privacy and circumvention activist. Htaike Htaike conducts trainings on Internet and digital security for the human rights defenders in Myanmar. She is one of the founders of the Myanmar Bloggers Society, and is an organizer of the Barcamp Yangon, http://www.barcampyangon.org/index. html, considered one of the biggest Barcamp gatherings in the world. She has also worked with several international NGOs to provide ICT training to grassroots activists and workers
Sumandro Chattapadhyay is Research Director at the Centre for Internet and Society, India. He leads the open data activities at CIS, and also the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme. His academic interests span over topics of history and politics of informatics in India, new media and technology studies, and data infrastructures and economies; and is alsokeenlyinterested in questions and techniques of digital humanities.