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Myanmar to hold ICT exhibition in Yangon in March
YANGON, Feb 08, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
An information and communication
technology (ICT) exhibition will be held in the third weekend of
next month at the Tatmadaw Hall in Myanmar's former capital city
of Yangon, aimed at empowering people with IT knowledge and
enabling them to get in close touch with modern IT equipment.
The three-day event from March 19 to 21, which will be the
first ICT exhibition this year, is jointly organized by Myanmar
Computer Federation, Myanmar Computer Professionals Association (
MCPA) and Myanmar Computer Industry Association.
With about 156 booths, IT companies will showcase the country's
latest technology, hardware, software, communication products,
computer-related electronics devices and electrical goods.
Mainly arranged by MCPA, booths measuring 10 square-feet (0.929
square-meters) each, will be rent with both auction and lucky
draw, said MCPA spokesperson U Tun Khaing Tuesday, adding that
booth hiring will start in early March.
Computer organizations have been holding such ICT exhibition
twice a year since 1999 and the latest exhibition of its kind was
in October last year, in which 71 companies took part.
Myanmar has been striving for the development of ICT. In
December 2007, Myanmar's first largest ICT park, also known as the
Yadanabon Cyber City, was introduced in Pyin Oo Lwin.
The cyber city, which covers an overall area of 10,000 acres
(4, 050 hectares), located in the hilly Pyin Oo Lwin near a
highway, 67 kilometers east of the second largest city of Mandalay
in the north, and 20 percent of the cyber city area produce
software and hardware.
The internet of the cyber city not only links with the whole
country but also connect neighboring China, Thailand and India.
With the establishment of the cyber city, more and more local
and foreign information technology (IT) companies have sought
investment in the cyber city for the development of IT business
undertakings.
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