FROM DATA TO IDEA

As the country moves towards graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC), what are the opportunities and concerns for emerging development finance organizations to rethink? Here are a few tips we have prepared.

While easy access to the internet and electricity is part and parcel of the high income countries, it is a dream way too far to achieve in the low income countries. If we take a deeper look into the digital divide that is rampant currently, 71 countries out of the 183 countries have meager access to the internet. Unfortunately, many of them are among the worst-hit countries.

Before Myanmar’s independence in 1948 was gained, a significant number of records indicate that almost all Myanmar’s university students used to speak English fluently having taught in English as the medium of instruction during the British colonial era, and the quality of Myanmar’s education was ranked one of the tops in Asia.

In July 2019, Papua New Guinea experienced its first known cyber bullying-related suicide, when a 24-year-old girl died from drinking gramoxone herbicide. A family member of the deceased reported that this had happened after one of the pictures she uploaded on her Facebook account was photoshopped and gone viral online on various Facebook meme pages.

A recent study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that young people are experiencing more suicidal thoughts during this pandemic. For people ages 18-24 in the survey, 25% said that they seriously considered suicide.