The document outlines the current ICT status and future opportunities for Myanmar, emphasizing the importance of ICT in achieving political, economic, and social goals. It discusses the growth of mobile penetration and the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing productivity and services. Additionally, it highlights the skills and knowledge required for future ICT professionals in Myanmar, including understanding various ICT layers and engagement in online communities.

1. IT Professional for Future
Myanmar and IoT
Pyi Soe Maw (DIR-ACE Technology)

2. Contents Outline
• Current ICT status and utilization of information
technology in Myanmar
• Current technologies and opportunities for Myanmar
• IoT at a glance
• AI Technology and the IoT
• What should we prepare to be Myanmar ICT
professionals in future?

3. Current ICT Status
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is
recognized as a key element in implementing political,
economic and social objectives in Myanmar.
• Opportunities for application of ICT in socio-economic
organizations to increase the productivity, market
penetration, reducing cost and improving services

4. Current ICT Status

5. Myanmar ICT Growth

6. Myanmar ICT Growth

7. Myanmar ICT Growth
• By 2017, Myanmar intends to have 22 million mobile
subscribers, equating to 40% mobile penetration
• The mobile network population coverage is expected to
grow from the current level of 12% to 70% by 2017
• By 2020, 95% of people must be covered.

8. Myanmar GDP Growth
Percentage of GDP growth:

9. Future of ICT Trends
• Mobility:
• Cloud computing:
• Big data analytics:
• Social media technologies:
• Internet of Things (IoT):

10. IoT at a glance
• IoT (Internet of Things) is just internetworking and
exchanging data between devices, buildings, systems and
any other electronics embedded objects to provide require
information.
• Being Ubiquitous

11. How IoT works……
• Get the data from the environment by Sensors
• Transmit and store these data in the central
processing/server
• Analyze the data and
take action

12. Communication types of IoT
• A series of new independent systems operating with their
own infrastructures which are partly based on existing
Internet infrastructures, including three main types of
communication:
– M2M : Machine-to-machine / Things-to-things (T2T)
– T2P : Things-to-person
– P2P : Person-to-person

13. IoT explanation video clip by Intel

14. IoT with AI
• IoT won’t work without
Artificial Intelligence
• Big data analysis and
real time data
analyzing needs to be
done by automated
tools

15. Challenges facing AI in IoT
• Compatibility
• Complexity
• Privacy/Security
• Safety
• Ethical and legal Issues
• Artificial Stupidity

16. Application of AI
• Gaming
• Natural Language Processing
• Expert Systems
• Vision Systems
• Speech Recognition
• Handwriting Recognition
• Intelligent Robots

17. Popular IoT android humanoid
• Small, and with pleasantly rounded features, NAO is the
first humanoid robot designed by SoftBank Robotics.

18. Popular IoT android humanoid
• Pepper is the first personal and emotional humanoid
robot.

19. What should we prepare?
• Not only programming,
• Not only JAVA, Android or any other languages,
• Not only networking,
• Not only hardware services,
• Not only coding,
• Not only creating….

20. What should we prepare?
• Understanding the ICT Layers….
Infra Layers
OS Layer
Application Layer
Enterprise Layer
Cloud / IoT

21. Fast ways
to be an ICT professional
• Online communities….
• Hang out with geeks….
• Take lessons….
• Create own programs / environment….

22. References……..
• Case study of DELIVERING AFFORDABLE INTERNET
IN MYANMAR by ALLIANC FOR AFFORTABLE
INTERNET
• The future of communication by Wolfgang Wahlster
• ICT Trends 2020 by IDC
• ADB Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report 2015

23. THANK YOU…….!
Pyi Soe Maw (DIR-ACE Technology)