YANGON -- During the weeks leading up to Myanmar's Nov. 8 elections, some of Yangon's tech set decided to do something about the mix of disinformation and disinterest they perceived among many of their peers -- despite the country's first fair election in a quarter century being just weeks away.
Aimed at getting the word out about the vote, and about the candidates, recent weeks have seen a flourishing new crop of smartphone and social media-based applications -- on the back of a communications revolution in a country that was mostly cut off from the outside world during five decades of army rule.
