• Building roads and bridges is still important for World Bank’s IFC, but digitally linking people is rising in significance. • IFC has disbursed $205 million to date into 29 financial technology investments; creating over 4,800 jobs in three years. • Digitally connecting people through new services has created new economic and employment opportunities. Multilateral […]
Silicon Valley school comes to Yangon
October 5, 2016 by
Budding entrepreneurs dreaming about quitting day jobs to found successful start-ups will soon have access to a Silicon Valley-designed training school that aims to help them do just that. Yangon-based innovation lab Phandeeyar is opening a Myanmar chapter of the California-based Founder Institute to cater to what it says is a huge pool of local […]
Ex-Google exec returns to his native Myanmar with big plans
October 2, 2013 by
Consult-Myanmar welcomes you to the 27th SEA Games Myanmar, 11-22 Dec 2013Myanmar-born former Google business operations and strategy manager Nay Aung has an ambitious goal: to make online activities, from payment to bookings to e-commerce, the norm in his hometown. Nay Aung, a graduate of Stanford University in California and the London School of Economics, […]
