Video from “Subversive Tech in Burma” Event

Video from “Subversive Tech in Burma” Event

“Subversive Tech and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy” involved a presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma’s borders, footage from the Sept 2007 Saffron Revolution, where mobile phones and the internet allowed protesters to coordinate and publicize the largest protests seen in a generation, and a Q&A with “Stanley”, a Burmese computer programmer and chairperson of the All Burma IT Students Union.

This was the inaugural event of the 2009 Upgrade New York art and technology programming series, pertaining to open source activist and creative practices, co-produced by Not An Alternative andEyebeam.