5,000 techies attended this year's BarCamp in Yangon, Myanmar

Reposted from The Economist

WHERE did BarCamp, a get-together of tech geeks (pictured), recently hold its biggest event since its founding in Silicon Valley seven years ago? Not San José, nor Bangalore, nor even Singapore. On February 11th more than 5,000 developers and bloggers gathered in Yangon, the main city of Myanmar, one of the world’s most tech-starved places. The star speaker was the country’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. More…