Managing Director, Koe Koe Tech
Michael Lwin is the managing director of Koe Koe Tech, a health IT social enterprise based in Yangon, Myanmar. Koe Koe Tech trains local Myanmar people in computer science, sales, and marketing, and develops software for Myanmar's data-deprived healthcare sector. Koe Koe Tech employs more women than men, and has Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and people of many ethnic groups on staff.
Koe Koe Tech has developed maymay, the first mHealth app for maternal and child health in Myanmar. maymay builds off of the MAMA content used in Bangladesh, South Africa, and India, and provides periodic messages to users with regard to their pregnancy and the care of their young child. Users will be able to locate nearby doctors and other healthcare professionals by specialty on Google Maps, and in the future will be able to place appointments. Users will also be able to conduct live-chat telemedicine sessions with doctors and other healthcare professionals, enabling isolated rural people to obtain healthcare information remotely.
Michael is a Myanmar-American and moved to Myanmar in 2012 after U.S. general economic sanctions on Myanmar were suspended. He is a 2014 Echoing Green Global Fellow.