ICT Usage Among Burmese Ethnic Women Organizations in Thailand: Enabling Change For Women and Communities

Nikos Lexis Dacanay was the Principal Investigator for the study of telecenters and cybercafés in northern Thailand, sponsored by the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship. He is co-author of the book Txting Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity (De La Salle University Press, 2002). He has done research work in the academe and in non-government organizations (NGO), and his involvement in these two fields has shaped both the nature of his research (ethnographic and policy-oriented) as well as his interest in various and inter-connected subjects/topics: migration/diaspora, gender, sexuality, ICT, notions of the self, identity, body, citizenship, and human rights. He is consultant with the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB), a non-profit organization based in Chiang Mai Thailand.