Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland, and we have a really interesting lineup of folks here today.

I'll start with one of our visitors who's come from the farthest away, I think, David Madden, whose internews strategy and advisor in Myanmar.

David, welcome.

Thanks, Michael. It's great to be here.

And joining us also is A. Mo, who's a co-founder of Baden, which is a startup here in Silicon Valley and Mountain View.

But you are also originally from Myanmar an engineer and a technologist.

And on the line is Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab.

Ethan, welcome.

Thanks for having me.

So, as you can tell, this conversation is sort of focused in Southeast Asia and on technology

and other parts of the world.

And, you know, interviews, maybe, David, let's start with you.

You guys have some news that you guys broke.

Tell us a little bit about that and give us some context for what you're doing in Myanmar.

Yeah, well, thanks again for having us, Michael.

It's great to be here today.

Yeah, so for those of you who don't know about Internews,

Internews is an international NGO, has been going for a bit over 30 years,

works in about 90 different countries around the world,

and its mission really is to empower people through better access to information.

And so Indenews has been working in Myanmar for about 12 years now.

And a lot of the work that it has done in the early part of its time in Myanmar has been

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