Innovation & Impact Award: Recognizing that Digital Resilience Matters
The SecDev Foundation has received the 2025 organizational Innovation and Impact Award in honour of Lewis Perinbam, co-presented by Cooperation Canada and World University Service of Canada.
Myanmar’s Digital Resistance: Ingenuity Under Repression
Even as Myanmar’s military tries to control online space, people on the ground keep adapting. Five studies map the creative resilience behind their organizing, fundraising, and survival.
Gender as a Battleground in Post-Coup Myanmar: Six Studies
In post-coup Myanmar, gender is a battleground, and digital space is one of its fiercest fronts. Six studies expose the harms and offer ways forward toward safety and justice.
Myanmar’s Brutalizing Scam Sector: What it Will Take to Turn the Tide
A look inside Myanmar’s fast-growing scam economy, where trafficking, online manipulation and everyday fraud thrive amid crisis. Three new studies show why only international action can turn the tide.
Local Voices, Global Impact: Our Myanmar Researchers at GDC 2025
Three contributors to our Myanmar Digital Research series are taking the stage at this year's Global Development Conference 2025, showing how researchers from fragile contexts are ready to shape global conversations about digital inclusion and power.
Fandom for Freedom: How Myanmar Youth are Fueling the Resistance
Two young Myanmar researchers show how K-pop fans became unlikely engines of resistance after the coup. Now their work is breaking into Southeast Asia’s cultural conversation.
Inside Myanmar’s Cyber-Scam Compounds
How do Myanmar’s cyber-scam compounds trap thousands in cycles of fear and coercion? Journalist "Ying" spent two years investigating, and we've been pleased to support her work.
Digital Repression and Resistance in Myanmar: Fresh Insight
Four years after the military coup, repression and conflict remain daily realities for people in Myanmar. Six new Foundation-supported research studies explore how digital life intersects with repression, identity and activism.
Confronting Violence Against Women in Post-Coup Myanmar
Two new Foundation-supported research studies tackle pressing issues for women in post-coup Myanmar: non-consensual pornography targeting the resistance and toxic narratives appearing inside it.
Hopes and Challenges: Online Education in Myanmar
For youth in Myanmar, online education presents both precious hope and extreme challenges. Four new Foundation-supported studies explore today’s realities and what needs to happen next.